Posted on 12/13/2014 7:36:58 AM PST by Olog-hai
A Russian loan to France’s National Front. Invitations to Moscow for leaders of Austria’s Freedom Party. Praise for Vladimir Putin from the head of Britain’s anti-European Union party.
As the diplomatic chill over Ukraine deepens, the Kremlin seems keener than ever to enlist Europe’s far-right parties in its campaign for influence in the West, seeking new relationships based largely on shared concern over the growing clout of the EU. […]
The fact that many of Moscow’s allies are right to far-right reflects the Kremlin's full turn. Under communism, xenophobic nationalist parties were shunned.
Now they are embraced as partners who can help further Russia’s interests and who share key views—advocacy of traditional family values, belief in authoritarian leadership, a distrust of the U.S. and support for strong law-and-order measures. …
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wow. this is a “new’ article or a propaganda missive, I am pretty sure this is a bunch of pap.
BTW, their definition of “far-right” includes a support for AUTHORITARIAN government and a distrust of the US. lol.
Never mind that “authoritarian” is not separated from the same old cradle-to-grave socialism. You cannot have traditional families under a socialistic governmental structure, no matter how much they pander to the notion.
Yes. The Russians seem to support those European parties that combine a love of socialism with nationalism. This somehow sounds familiar.
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Looks like Russia’s investment in their military is starting to pay dividends...and just the opposite for us.
The irony abounds. I've been reading The War That Ended Peace. It's about what led up to World War I. In the first decade of the Twentieth Century, France was making big loans to Russia to build railroads. This disturbed the Germans, because they looked on Russian railroads as an aid to Army mobilization. They felt they were being surrounded by enemies that were allied to each other: France and Tsarist Russia.
I guess turnabout is fair play. Now it's the Russians making loans to France, although in this case it isn't to make mobilization easy, but to disrupt French politics.
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