Russian government promotes fake "Tucker kill list" story hatched by LaRouchites

How Twitter conspiracy theorists and "heterodox anti-imperialists" made a basic mistake that ended in false accusations from a senior Russian diplomat.

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Most of my writing on Ukraine is more analytical, but this story is so insane that I’m just going to begin by laying out the facts.

1. Yesterday, Daniel Burke — a 2020 New Jersey candidate for Senate who ran for the “LaRouche was Right Party” — noted that Ukraine’s Center for Countering Di…