"Right-wing strategist Roger Stone, a prominent ally of former President Donald Trump, appears to have sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin in support of his invasion of Ukraine—claiming the Kremlin leader is "acting defensively."
Russia launched its internationally condemned invasion of Ukraine on February 24 after weeks of warnings from President Joe Biden and other Western leaders that an attack was imminent. Putin attempted to justify the assault by absurdly claiming that Ukraine was led by "neo-Nazis" and needed to be "denazified."
In a Saturday interview on Real America's Voice, Stone took argued that Putin's actions were defensive.
"Ukraine is not even remotely about what they are telling us about," he said. "Ukraine is about the fact that the Ukrainians have used their soil to place dual-launch missile pads—missiles that would be aimed at the Soviet Union."
The Soviet Union has been defunct since 1991, but Stone was apparently referring to Russia.
"There are, in fact, bio labs there [in Ukraine] that are funded by our tax dollars, cooking up who knows what pestilence to dump on the Russian people," Stone continued. "Putin is acting defensively, he is not acting offensively. But you won't read that in the mainstream media."