I personally don't think Rand Paul is working for Putin. Instead what he is is non-interventionist. And McCain has been a War Hawk since Viet Nam when he was a POW for 5 years time after being shot down in his fighter jet then during the Viet Nam War. However, I suppose the point could be made that if someone is non-interventionist in this day and age by not helping NATO he is helping Putin, not consciously but because he doesn't believe in interfering in other countries affairs.

I think since Russia is no longer Soviet that NATO should be thought of slightly differently too. Our habits are still sort of like we still have the "Ghost" of the Cold War in our relationship with Putin. However, he also still has the "GHOST" of the Cold War because he is still acting like the Head of the KGB in his wikileaks attack on the CIA. So, he is pursuing old glory and So is McCain still involved in a Cold War somewhere. However, I think Trump is on another imaginary planet entirely and therefore much more out of touch than how McCain is accusing Paul of helping Putin.

If someone is helping Putin here it is Trump by destroying our system of government for Putin and also ending human rights to demonstrate here in the United States.

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03/15/2017 10:57 pm ET

John McCain Says Rand Paul Is ‘Now Working For Vladimir Putin’

“I do not say that lightly.”

By Ed Mazza

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Sen. John McCain of Arizona attacked fellow Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky on Wednesday, accusing him of doing the bidding of Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

McCain had called for unanimous consent on a bill to help pave the way for NATO membership for Montenegro, which withstood a coup attempt last year that was blamed on Russia.

McCain, the 2008 GOP presidential nominee, warned his colleagues that anyone who objected would be “carrying out the desires and ambitions of Vladimir Putin, and I do not say that lightly.”

However, Paul objected and then quickly left the chamber.

McCain said:

“I note the senator from Kentucky leaving the floor without justification or any rationale for the action that he has just taken. That is really remarkable, that a senator blocking a treaty that is supported by an overwhelming number, perhaps 98 at least, of his colleagues would come to the floor and object and walk away. And walk away!
The only conclusion you can draw when he walks away is he has no argument to be made. He has no justification for his objection to having a small nation be part of NATO that is under assault from the Russians. So, I repeat again: The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin.”

Paul, who has called for a more non-interventionist foreign policy, later released a statement defending his objection.

“The United States is pledged to defend 28 countries in NATO. It is unwise to expand the monetary and military obligations of the United States given the burden of our $20 trillion debt,” he said, according to The Daily Beast. 

McCain and Paul have not exactly had a friendly relationship, especially on foreign policy.

“John McCain is the guy that has advocated for war everywhere,” Paul said in an interview last month. “We’re very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.”

In 2015, McCain called Paul ― then running for the GOP presidential nomination ― “the worst possible candidate” on national security issues, and in 2013 he called him and several other Republican senators “wacko birds” for what he considered extremist views.