Even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, retired Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, an Afghanistan war whistleblower, went on TV to downplay Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine. And since the war began, Davis has appeared on CNN, Fox News, Sinclair Broadcast Group, and other outlets to repeatedly blame NATO and even Ukraine for Russia’s attack, and to call on Ukraine to surrender to Russia or accede to its demands.
Politico reported in 2012 that Davis, who had just returned from a tour in Afghanistan, wrote in a Armed Forces Journal article that the conditions there “bore no resemblance to rosy official statements by U.S. military leaders about conditions on the ground.” After that article went viral, he received a prize for his whistleblower report. He also briefed members of Congress and spoke to reporters about his criticisms of the war.
Since then, Davis has become a senior fellow and military expert for the Defense Priorities Foundation, a libertarian nonprofit organization that discourages U.S. military intervention and has links to the conservative Charles Koch advocacy network. It also has a congressional lobbying arm and through 2019 had raised a little over $3 million. Davis has also written several opinion pieces for FoxNews.com dating back to 2018 that argue against military intervention in other countries or support the withdrawal of U.S. forces.
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