John MaverickMcCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former
foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution...
will submit an opinion piece to the Russian newspaper Pravda in response to an op-ed on Syria in The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
by Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...that infuriated many members of Congress, a front man said on Friday.
"Senator McCain is glad to take them up on the offer and will submit a piece," said Brian Rogers, a front man for the senior Republican senator, one of the leading congressional voices on international affairs.
Pravda isn't the official Russian press anymore. Komersant would be more influential, probably. You'd expect a "foreign policy expert" like McCain to know that.
The announcement came a day after the venerable U.S. newspaper published a Putin commentary in which the Russian leader painted himself as a peacemaker and lectured Washington for what he called a tendency to use "brute force" in international politics.
Many U.S. politicians made clear they did not welcome the Russian leader's input into their debate over approving missile strikes in response to the apparent use of chemical weapons by Putin's ally, Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
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