Russia Backs Europe’s Far Right(newlinesmag.com)
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Russia Backs Europe’s Far Right
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/exclusive-russia-backs-europes-far-right/
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Yes, but do they also back the far left? That is, are they simply sowing division and civil disunity, or are they preferring to tilt things one direction?
I think yes. judging from historical IO's (active measures etc) RU did give a podium to anyone on both sides of the spectrum. The best way to sow discord in the "enemy" is to amplify both. I remember RT (Russia Today) was often applauded for giving far left talking heads a podium to speak up they would have not gotten on mainstream channels. People from diverse a background and ideology as Slavoj Zizek, Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Ed Snowden, etc ... who were known to critic legitimate things the US did the past 30 years (often horrible things). Not because Russia agrees but because it helped divide the enemy.
In Europe, however, they mainly back right wing, because it is anti-EU.
Hate to say it, but if the strategy of weakening other countries involves bolstering certain political ideologies, maybe those ideologies should fall (further) out of favor.
hopefully they do. guess the bitter pill is that the work for this needs to be done at home (not in Russia or UA).
Perhaps after winning the war in Ukraine, Zelenskyy needs to go "de-Nazify" Moscow.
(To be clear, this is not a serious suggestion and I'm certainly not advocating for Ukraine to invade Russia, which would be a bad idea even if Russia didn't nukes. However, if Russia managed to free itself from Putin and have free and fair elections, maybe a decade from now, it would be uplifting to see Zelenskyy compete as a candidate and win).
(To be clear, this is not a serious suggestion and I'm certainly not advocating for Ukraine to invade Russia, which would be a bad idea even if Russia didn't nukes. However, if Russia managed to free itself from Putin and have free and fair elections, maybe a decade from now, it would be uplifting to see Zelenskyy compete as a candidate and win).
I enjoy these hypothetical what if's and am really rooting for Zelensky. My guess is there are quite a couple of candidates that if they're not murdered in all this would be in a good position to step up. E.g. Navalny, or even exiled people like Mikhail Khodorkovsky (aka Citizen K). The scary thing is that a power vacuum after Putin is like rolling the dice which might as well usher in the next dictator. Russia after Putin needs to be managed like Nazi Germany was managed by the allies post WWII. With army bases all over Russia to ensure a gradual adoption of rule of law. China will be pissed but that's the only chance to secure long term peace. But before any of this happens I fear things will need to become a lot worse to justify such a step. (e.g. wide scale use of chemical or nuclear weapons and RU invading other countries like the Baltics, Moldova, Poland etc).
guess all of this is spitballing because war turns any future unpredictable.
guess all of this is spitballing because war turns any future unpredictable.
We got to put army bases all over Germany because we conquered Germany. We're not likely to do that to Russia, especially without bleeding a lot.
I agree it's far fetched today. It might not be far fetched once a few European capitals are getting nuked.
> Russia Backs Europe’s Far Right
So does the CIA.
So does the CIA.