[skeeter]

Like so many other issues the powers that be aren’t brooking anything other than the party line. That is, global climate change is real, masks work to stop spread of Covid and Putin is an evil madman.

Those proposing nuanced views and suspecting shades of gray can go pound salt.

[rlmorel]

LOL, I don't generally even enter these threads because they descend rapidly into "Putinista" and "Ukrainian Propaganda Monkey", but as it was about General Flynn, I have some interest in what happened to him, as well as ongoing efforts to demonize and minimize him.

I did this downloadable PDF of a spreadsheet of the timeline, with involved people and links on that travesty of his political persecution:

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD: TIMELINE OF THE GOVERNMENTAL ABUSE OF LT. GENERAL MICHAEL FLYNN

The very first paragraph of the linked article in Row#1 is revealing:

"Barack Obama warned his successor against hiring Michael Flynn. It was Nov. 10, 2016, just two days after Donald Trump upset Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president of the United States. Trump told aide Hope Hicks that he was bewildered by the president’s warning. Of all the important things Obama could have discussed with him, the outgoing commander in chief wanted to talk about Michael Flynn."

[rlmorel]

Here was another eerily relevant passage from that linked article I mentioned in my other post: Tablet Article: How Russiagate Began With Obama’s Iran Deal Domestic Spying Campaign

"...Jewish community leaders complained about how the debate over the deal was being framed. "If you are a critic of the deal, you’re for war," a senior official at a pro-Israel organization told me at the time. "The implication is that if it looks like the Jewish community is responsible for Congress voting down the deal, it will look like the Jewish community is leading us off to another war in the Middle East..."

Sure sounds familiar.

In that manachean calculus, if you are a critic either for or against action in Ukraine, you are stuck into one of the two boxes: You are either a "Putinista" or a "Ukrainian Propaganda Monkey" and there is no other category you can be placed in.