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Рон Пол

В конце августа 2011 внимание диктаторов всего мира было приковано к Ливии, где, после взятия повстанцами Триполи, наступал конец режиму Каддафи. Ким Чен Ир совершил срочную поездку в Россию. В Америке между тем набирала обороты президентская предвыборная гонка. Дональд Трамп советовал прислушаться к Рону Полу.
@RonPaul has some serious ideas which deserve serious consideration. Wrong for media to ignore him.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 23, 2011
Пол выделялся из республиканских кандидатов тем, что решительно выступал против интервенции и поддержки смены режима в других странах. В чем-то его позиция была обоснована.
“The current situation in Libya may be a short term victory for Empire, but it is a loss for our American Republic. And, I fear it may be devastating to the Libyan people.
There is no doubt that Moammar Gadhafi is a bad guy, and that he has brought harm and misery to his country. However, our involvement in another country's civil war is costly and unconstitutional.”
http://presidency.proxied.lsit.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=98770

Неудивительно, что главную информационную поддержку ему оказывали не в американских СМИ, а на канале Russia Today. Рон Пол стал несомненным кремлевским фаворитом.
Several websites feature a series of videos from RT, not limited to the Kokesh program, that are extremely favorable to Paul’s campaign. The channel features attractive female anchors who speak flawless English and claim to have America’s best interests at heart. Many observers agree the channel is far more effective than the heavy-handed Soviet propaganda of the Cold War years.
https://www.aim.org/aim-column/why-is-russian-tv-backing-ron-paul/
They read The Nation, Alex Jones, WorldNetDaily. It can seem like the entire Internet was created to convince the paranoid reader that he's right—you can't trust the bastards. RT goes one step further: You can trust the Russians more than you can trust those bastards. If no one else wants to create a TV channel for the despondent, here it is.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2011/06/pravda_will_set_you_free.html
Неизвестно, повлияла ли эта поддержка, но дела у Пола пошли неплохо, и по опросу Gallup он вышел на третье место после Митта Ромни и Рика Перри.
A new Gallup poll shows Barack Obama losing by 2% to Mitt Romney in a hypothetical race held "today". Mr Obama is tied with Rick Perry. But the really interesting news is that the president wins by just 2% against Ron Paul, the guy most media gatekeepers assume too unelectable to be worth covering.
https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2011/08/23/an-anybody-better-than-bachmann
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