The Node reports:
While most Americans take to social media to express opposition to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and to support the people of Ukraine, one Texas man has broken the rule and flew all the way to Russia to support its troops.
The man who has been identified by local Texas Monthly magazine as 54-year old Russell Bonner Bentley, who has been part of Russia’s attempt to take over the Donetsk region since 2015.
He has repeatedly traveled to Russia, including his latest trip amid the Russian military operation in Ukraine, during which he has been recording what has been described as propaganda videos in support of Russia.
Read the full article.
The 2018 Texas Monthly piece is really something. Apparently he’s a self-declared former drug runner who once ran of the US Senate. Among the Russian separatists he’s a local folk hero known simply as “Texas.”
Don’t know who this is but assuming he’s an American citizen, his passport should be cancelled and his name placed on terrorist watch list. Immediately. https://t.co/9j35tczZGv
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) March 1, 2022
— Borzou Daragahi ?? (@borzou) February 28, 2022
So, like I said here, I was in the middle of clipping some of this interview when I got tagged about Mr. Traitor Texas in #Donetsk.
Featured on Alex Jones InfoWars cohorts podcast: Flyover Conservatives yesterday for an “alternative perspective” (aka bullshit Kremlin propaganda) https://t.co/rNLyGkrzyd pic.twitter.com/p6NIf5YSzb
— MINDF©️K (@gal_suburban) February 28, 2022
18 U.S.C. 958 makes it a felony for any US citizen to serve in a foreign army invading a country the United States is at peace with.
The penalty is a fine and up to 3 years in prison.
This idiot from Texas joined the Russian Army’s invasion of Ukraine.
?????? https://t.co/Mlf3RkocoS
— James F. Love IV (@JamesFLoveIV) March 1, 2022