Rich McCormick Sends Psy-Op Mailer to 6th District Voters

Antic­i­pat­ing a major unforced error of judg­ment on his part, 6th Dis­trict US Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Rich McCormick has decid­ed the best way to cov­er for what will become avery unpop­u­lar votehe plans to cast, is to attempt totrans­fer respon­si­bil­i­ty of his mis­guid­ed choice onto the back of Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin, join­ing a cho­rus of con­gres­sion­al Rus­so­phobes blam­ing Putin for bad US pol­i­cy. This effort is a tan­ta­mount psy-op McCormick and oth­ers will appar­ent­ly use to cov­er their tracks when a bill fund­ing bil­lions to Ukraine comes to the floor. The psy-op is that the 6th Dis­trict con­gress­man, who is on record por­tray­ing him­self as a fis­cal hawk, willblame Putin for the neces­si­ty that he vio­late his cam­paign promis­esto hold the line on con­gres­sion­al spend­ing. The over-the-top mail­er below, sent by McCormick to his dis­trict yes­ter­day, notwith­stand­ing its con­sid­er­able cost, shows how dif­fi­cult it is to be a true war hawk, and por­tray ones self as a fis­cal hawk at the same time.

Accord­ing to the mailed cir­cu­lar, the Make Putin Pay Act McCormick sup­ports wouldallow the US to seize all frozen assets relat­ed to Russ­ian Oli­garchs such as Dic­ta­tor Vladimir Putin of the Moscow Bank,the pro­ceeds from the sale would be used toreim­burse the Unit­ed States for our aid to Ukraine and beAUTHORIZED TO PAY FOR FUTURE AID

Obvi­ous­ly, McCormick plans to vote to fur­ther indebt both present and future gen­er­a­tions of Amer­i­can tax­pay­ers to pay for bil­lions more in mon­e­tary war-mak­ing aid to Ukraine, intend­ing that the dec­i­mat­ed coun­try con­tin­ue to resist in an already-lost war with Rus­sia. McCormicks sup­port for Ukraine is more mis­guid­ed than I can express in one writ­ing. In my Octo­ber 2019 arti­cle enti­tled,Ukraine-What Real­ly Hap­pened, you will dis­cov­er the roots of the ongo­ing war between Ukraine and Rus­sia extend back to cer­tain events in 2014, when in Feb­ru­ary of that year the Oba­ma State Depart­ment, in the per­son of Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of State of Euro­pean Affairs Vic­to­ria Nuland, insti­gat­ed a vio­lent coup in down­town Kiev, over­throw­ing and ban­nish­ing Ukraines demo­c­ra­t­i­cal­ly-elect­ed gov­ern­ment, replac­ing it with a pup­pet regime, a result even pleas­ing to the likes of George Soros. The facts con­cern­ing the over­throw are well-doc­u­ment­ed. Not only is it uncon­sti­tu­tion­al for the US Gov­ern­ment to spon­sor regime-change oper­a­tions around the world, but doing so is also a war crime and against inter­na­tion­al law. Yet, here it is, Rich McCormick, work­ing unapolo­get­i­cal­ly in defi­ance of both legal and con­sti­tu­tion­al stan­dards to sup­port the US pup­pet gov­ern­ment at war with Rus­sia.

The 2014 coup is noth­ing the 6th Dis­trict rep­re­sen­ta­tive wants to talk about. Had the unlaw­ful and uncon­sti­tu­tion­al US over­throw of Ukraine nev­er occurred, there would be no present war between Rus­sia and Ukraine, the lat­ter of the two des­per­ate­ly starv­ing for funds, and no rea­son to fur­ther indebt future gen­er­a­tions of Amer­i­cans to sup­ply them.

The Unit­ed States has no respon­si­bil­i­ty to Ukraine for sup­ply­ing war-mak­ing aid at all. The US has no mutu­al defense treaty with Ukraine. Ukraine is not a mem­ber of NATO. Fur­ther­more, Ukraine is uni­ver­sal­ly known for its cor­rupt gov­ern­ment and for pro­vid­ing safe haven for inter­na­tion­al mon­ey-laun­der­ing oper­a­tions. Ukrain­ian oli­garchs are no bet­ter than Russ­ian oli­garchs. Why does­nt the US Trea­sury take Ukrain­ian Oli­garch assets as well?

When Joe Biden first indi­cat­ed the US would back Ukraine in its war against Rus­sia, I said at the time, Biden real­ly stepped in it. And when Rich McCormick decid­ed to agree with Biden, and then some, say­ing Biden has­nt gone far enough, McCormick stepped in it with both feet.

And so now, to cov­er for a vote he knows will not go over well in the 6th Dis­trict, but which he obvi­ous­ly deems nec­es­sary to sati­ate cer­tain ulte­ri­or pur­pos­es, such as per­haps those of cor­po­rate back­ers, Rich McCormick is try­ing to fool Repub­li­can vot­ers to believe the fault of his vote will not be his, but instead the fault of Vladimir Putin. This is just Rus­sia, Rus­sia, Rus­sia all over again. Although the ruse may be some­what clever, it is a ruse, a psy-op on the vot­ers of the 6th Dis­trict, which I do not believe the vot­ers will buy.