Posted on 02/10/2022 7:40:42 PM PST by Mariner
A U.S. intelligence community assessment obtained by Yahoo News concluded that the Russian government is providing “indirect and passive support” to neofascist groups operating in the U.S. and elsewhere, but stops short of accusing the Kremlin of supplying financial or material assistance to Western extremist groups.
The Kremlin “probably tolerates some private Russian entities’ support” for U.S. and European white nationalist groups “because it aligns with Kremlin efforts to aggravate societal fissures in the West,” states the report.
Russian neofascist groups have attempted to recruit and provide paramilitary training to North American and European extremists in order to “expand their reach into the West, increase membership, and raise money,” according to the unclassified July 2021 intelligence report.
The support of Western neofascists by Russian extremists “poses a potential threat to Western security by encouraging and enabling attacks on ethnic minorities and government facilities,” states the report, which is titled “Russian Federation Support of Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists.”
But the report, which was prepared by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence with input from the CIA and the FBI, also says the U.S. government lacks “indications of direct Russian government support” for foreign white nationalist groups.
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The bullsheet never stops with these commies. They never know when enough is enough.
Because the FBI and CIA are acting badly, I am asking Putin over to dinner this weekend. That’ll teach them.
“indirect and passive support”
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That means they have guys making funny memes, doesn’t it?
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Ahh, we can still catch a waft of that powerful scent of piss, hawt sauce, and cabbage farts.
Kenworth trucks have a driver. A driver has a foot. A foot is 12 inches. 12 inches is a ruler. A ruler is Queen Elizabeth. Queen Elizabeth is a ship. A ship sails the seas. The seas have fish. Fish have fins. The Finns fought the Russians. And Kenworths are rushin’ into Ottawa. And if you look, you will see that red Kenworths are everywhere.
RED! Rushin’ Kenworths! Straight from the Kremlin. And they sit there parked in the snow. And I don’t have to tell you where else it snows! (Moscow! And Putin’s house!)
I thought that was Nazis?
Fascism is everywhere now. Running back and forth like Mexicans at the end of the three Amigos. Everything is fascism!
Good point.
with plenty of links:
4 Feb: Sputnik: Ukrainian Female Sniper Linked to Neo-Nazi Volunteer Battalion Lionised by UK Tabloid Media
by Ilya Tsukanov
A female sniper who has fought in the ranks of one of Ukraine’s most notorious neo-Nazi volunteer units has been glorified by The Daily Mail and The Sun, with the outlets interviewing her and posting images and video of her shooting “Russian separatists” – the term used by Kiev and its Western allies to disparage independence-seeking residents of the war-torn eastern Ukraine.
Olena Bilozerska, 42 joined the Praviy Sektor (”Right Sector”) paramilitary group in 2014 after serving as an embedded reporter with the Azov Regiment, another neo-fascist militia unit. Despite her ties to these organisations, she has been celebrated by Western officials and media, invited to speak at a NATO conference in 2019, chronicled by “Real Women Real Stories,” a YouTube channel founded by an Israeli banker and journalist, and is operating her own YouTube channel.
In its report on Bilozerska, The Sun praised the “Femme fatale” sniper, saying she has “become a national hero after chilling footage was posted showing her killing two Russian soldiers.”...
The Daily Mail issued a similar report on the sniper, complete with an interview and the same night scope video. The outlet described Bilozerska as “something of a celebrity in Ukraine, having written a best-selling book called Diary of an Illegal Soldier” and as someone “well-known even before the war as her oppositional journalism found her under threat of imprisonment by the old hardline regime of Viktor Yanukovych,” i.e. the democratically-elected president overthrown in an EU and US-backed coup in 2014...
Awkward Associations
Western officials and media have spent years downplaying the neo-Nazi links of organizations like the Right Sector and the Azov, notwithstanding the militias’ open use of neo-Nazi and SS symbols and regalia. In Ukraine, these groups are known for their participation on the front lines in the civil conflict in the Donbass, but also for spearheading crackdowns on opposition media. They are also known for taking to the streets to protest when sensing that Kiev leaders may be considering implementing the Minsk Agreements on Ukrainian peace, as President Volodymyr Zelensky briefly attempted to do when he came into office in 2019.
The FBI has investigated the Ukrainian neo-fascist militias after discovering that US citizens were traveling to Ukraine and joining the ranks of groups like Azov and learning skills like bomb-making. In 2016, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights charged the Azov Regiment with war crimes. However, powerful Washington-based groups like the Atlantic Council have lobbied the State Department to avoid listing the Ukrainian ultra-nationalist battalions as terrorist organisations, citing their usefulness in a potential conflict against Russia.
https://sputniknews.com/20220205/ukrainian-female-sniper-linked-to-neo-nazi-volunteer-battalion-lionized-by-uk-tabloid-media-1092777143.html
Most assuredly the Russians are cultivating and grooming groups that will cause chaos, both left and right. If they can cause an internal crisis in the USA they get a free hand during the crisis.
It’s back to Russia, Russia, Russia, again. Hasn’t that playbook gotten worn and frayed by now?
And of course the “Freedom Convoys” going on all around the world. All fromRussia I am sure.
Pretty much if you aren’t a Marxist and you aren’t obsessed with everyone’s race, you are a “fascist”.
“Neofascist groups” with “indirect Russian support”
Yes, of course. The Freedom Convoy of truckers. Didn’t Trudeau inform us they were fascist bigoted racist homophobe-transgenderphobes? And the reporter for the CBC told us they had Russian support.
How soon do we see screeching headlines in the NYTimes and Washington Post? And calls by Schiff and Pelosi for a Congressional investigation?
The walls are closing in...
Never any names or evidence. Just vague BS. Really, how many fascists are there in the US?
IOWs it's total BS.
Apparently the Feral Gov. WANTS to be at war with the people.
There is an old saying that really is wise ...
Be careful what you wish for.
All of this is offered without a shred of evidence. The FBI is itself a terrorist and extremist organization, and the CIA has a long history of subverting other governments. What moral standing do those smelly goons and liars have to criticize Russia?
Intelligence is a word when used in conjunction with any GOVERNMENT ALPHA BET SOUP AGENCY is an OXYMORON!!!!
Your talking about the current US Government here, and you should know what happens when you ASSUME!
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