No wonder that James Rubin – a relic of the (Bill) Clinton-era State Department, is the one even to this day beating the drum of the supposedly exceptionally powerful and effective Russian control of speech and narratives, all around the world.
And, fully in line with the partisan fervor, Rubin – the former head of the former US Department of State’s (former) Global Engagement Center, GEC – claims Republicans falsely accused GEC of pushing censorship, and in that way, worked to reinforcing “Russian lies.”
There is at least one place where this kind of rhetoric is still genuinely well-received – and, for obvious reasons, it’s Kyiv.
However, Rubin, who was at the helm of GEC from 2022 until its shuttering in 2024, is doing his country no service by suggesting that just because of a change of administrations, the US is now allowing Russia free global reign.
