Sen. Tom Cotton, Russian stooge on idea to buy Greenland?

[TexasTowelie]

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I haven’t seen much local attention to this somewhat amusing story, a reboot of some information that emerged in 2019.

Reuters reports, in a broader story on Russian, Chinese and Iranian espionage efforts, that Trump may have been punked into his nutty idea to buy Greenland by a Russian spy operation, facilitated in part by that expert-on-everything-particularly-foreign-affairs Sen. Tom Cotton.

Cotton was an outspoken proponent of the Greenland purchase and defended Trump for floating the idea. Cotton took credit for taking the idea to the White House.

The Danish prime minister said at the time the idea was “absurd,” which prompted Trump to cancel a trip to Denmark and to call the prime minister “nasty.” The likelihood of Russian spies being behind the letter addressed to Cotton surfaced in 2019 in Denmark not long after the idea was floated. It was viewed then, as now, as an effort to disrupt relations between Denmark, which has important interests in the North Atlantic, and the U.S.

Read more: https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2022/01/15/sen-tom-cotton-russian-stooge-on-idea-to-buy-greenland

[Vogon_Glory]

1. Some of us still believe that being a tool of the Kremlin is a

Very Bad Thing, even if the Soviet Union isn’t still around and Vladimir Putin isn’t a Marxist-Leninist. Of course we’re Democrats, so what do we know?

[NCjack]

2. Sen. Tom is a very willing tool. If he didn't authenticate the letter, that was

because he like the idea, regardless of sent it.

[Ford_Prefect]

3. The 3 Stooges was a classic slapstick style comedy act. A Russian stooge is NOT funny at all.