Ron Paul Is Putin's New Best Friend

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Ron Paul Is Putin's New Best Friend
The former congressman from Texas is making a better argument for shielding the Russian president from blame than Kremlin TV.

It used to be that blaming America for crisis abroad was largely the province of liberals. That folk wisdom appears to be changing—just ask Ron Paul. In the days after the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the former House member has been quick to attack the West and President Obama for pointing any fingers in the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"Just days after the tragic crash of a Malaysian Airlines flight over eastern Ukraine, Western politicians and media joined together to gain the maximum propaganda value from the disaster. It had to be Russia; it had to be Putin, they said," Ron Paul wrote in an editorial Sunday. "President Obama held a press conference to claim—even before an investigation—that it was pro-Russian rebels in the region who were responsible. His ambassador to the U.N., Samantha Power, did the same at the U.N. Security Counci—just one day after the crash!"....

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/ron-paul-is-putin-s-new-best-friend-20140721