When Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared on conservative radio show Voice of Rural America this week, she launched a full-throated defence of Vladimir Putin and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“You see, Ukraine just kept poking the bear, and poking the bear, which is Russia, and Russia invaded,” the Georgia congresswoman said. “There is no win for Ukraine here. Russia is being successful in their invasion.”
It was hardly the first time Greene had courted controversy. The first-term congresswoman, who has fast emerged as one of the most polarising lawmakers on Capitol Hill, was stripped of her committee assignments last year over her endorsements of QAnon and September 11-related conspiracy theories.