The committee has largely kept quiet about the Green party nominee. But that’s now changing.

“Jill Stein is a useful idiot for Russia. After parroting Kremlin talking points and being propped up by bad actors in 2016 she’s at it again,” DNC spokesman Matt Corridoni said in a statement to The Bulwark. “Jill Stein won’t become president, but her spoiler candidacy—that both the GOP and Putin have previously shown interest in—can help decide who wins. A vote for Stein is a vote for Trump.”

      • sub_ubi
        13·
        3 months ago

        To be clear, your question dodging and lack of curiosity is funny.

          • sub_ubi
            12·
            3 months ago

            When NATO was founded, what did Lord Ismay famously say it was for?

              • sub_ubi
                11·
                3 months ago

                It’s not controversial to say that the US / NATO helped trigger the war in Ukraine.

                  • sub_ubi
                    11·
                    3 months ago

                    While that’s an accurate description of NYTimes and Wikipedia, they’re probably not the outlets you had in mind.

                    Ample evidence suggests that enlarging NATO over the years stoked Moscow’s grievances and heightened Ukraine’s vulnerability. After the Cold War ended, Moscow wanted NATO, previously an anti-Soviet military alliance, to freeze in place and diminish in significance. Instead, Western countries elevated NATO as the premier vehicle for European security and began an open-ended process of eastward expansion. Even though, as the former secretary of state Madeleine Albright noted, the Russians “were strongly opposed to enlargement,” the United States and its allies went ahead anyway