[notaigenerated]

The author sounds as if he was directly hired by the russians, lmao.

His writing tone is "60s soviet propaganda" and the arguments are shallow and insubstantial, to say the least.

upd. Just checked his other articles. Yup, dude is a russian shill.

[jamil7]

I’m not familiar with the author or their other articles so I can’t say whether they are or not but do we need to label all critics of western foreign policy Russian/CCP shills?

[notaigenerated]

I often do the "background check" of the writers that smell propaganda/psyop. What did they write and when they wrote it.

If you do just a quick check of what this guy wrote, you'll see he isn't just "a critic".

His Ukraine-related articles are the real litmus test. He's literally spewing the russian propaganda nonsense.

[jamil7]

I had a look, maybe, to me he just looks like bog-standard D.C libertarian think-tank type of guy. The Cato institute positions itself as libertarian non-interventionist (founded by American libertarians and a billionaire), so it would be consistent with their viewpoint. To me it seems more likely the shilling going on here is domestic rather than foreign.

[tim333]

He seems to have been sacked by Cato for his Ukraine views https://twitter.com/AltAltLeft/status/1646505224457138176

[brnt]

Also, in Europe, it isn't a secret that Putin's violence in Syria was meant to create pressure on Europe and create a diversion from Ukraine, and it worked (wir schaffen das).

When I read the title, I had a feeling somebody wanted to reframe that.

[petre]

This is why the author should have written the article during Obama's term, not now. Now Russia is responsible for pressuring the EU with migrants. However, not a word about it, which makes it anti-US propaganda.

[derelicta]

And yet he's telling the truth.

US commercial and military interests led to the destabilisation of many republics and states across the world in the name of freedom and democracy. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is the bold and sad truth and the truth is that those wonderful values have been completely emptied from their meaning by the US capitalist elites.