Posted on 12/14/2014 12:26:28 PM PST by elhombrelibre
Putin has become shockingly effective at influencing European politics through a host of far-right parties.
The following chart from the Center for Eurasian Strategic Intelligence (CESI) shows Russia's growing influence within six different European Union countries.
The parties, located in the UK, France, Germany, Greece, Bulgaria, and Hungary, are increasingly popular—and staunchly against giving more power to the EU. Each of the parties has also fostered a closer relationship with Russia, and has protested against sanctions on Moscow following its annexation of Ukraine.
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Actually Obama did nothing to help Ukraine and told Russia that he had more leeway after the election. Then some of you got in line behind the Anti American, tyranny twins, Putin and Obama.
UKIP? Really? What a bunch of crap!
Policies like invading neighboring countries?
Taking them over and destroying them?
I’m pretty sure conservatives around the world are envious at that. Appalled maybe, envious...no.
http://www.businessinsider.com/author/john-schindler
John R. Schindler is professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, where he’s been since 2005, and where he teaches courses on security, strategy, intelligence, terrorism, and occasionally military history. Before joining the NWC faculty, he spent nearly a decade with the National Security Agency as an intelligence analyst and counterintelligence officer. There’s not much he can say about that, except that he worked problems in Eastern Europe and the Middle East with a counterespionage flavor, and he collaborated closely with other government agencies who would probably prefer he didn’t mention them. He’s also served as an officer specializing in cryptology (now called information warfare for no particular reason) in the U.S. Navy Reserve.
I will say that he sounds much more legitimate than it appeared. He doesn't provide his evidence, though, and frankly, I don't put it past him or his former employers (0bama) to provide disinformation.
To say all these small government parties are plants or at least working with Russia is completely bogus.
This setup is not unlike the mantra that the Tea Party is made up of racists.
Neither UKIP nor the National Front have any relationship with either Putin or Russia. The main source for the article, something called CESI, is by its own admission an anti-Russian website with a bunch of stringers. Its "About" page is written in barely intelligible broken English. No care was taken in putting it together and it is obviously a front for some interested party. Even the CIA would not use a front as bush league as this.
I would not be concerned about this article if it did not unfairly smear three credible and positive figures in Europe: Nigel Farage, Marine le Pen and Geert Wilders. Ms. le Pen has recently gained support from the French Jewish community, for example. UKIP is not on the "Right". They are in the center, poaching voters from both Labour and the Tories.
You should have caught this before you posted the article.
But these are not small government parties. A common theme with them is breaking up Europe and national socialism. They are very good at criticizing the problems, but usually their program comes down to Banks/Jews/Foreigners/Americans have all the money and rob us and when we get the power we are going to take this money away from them. For some reason National Socialism is called right wing by the press.
Russia supports them as they are harming Europe.
All political parties in Europe are socialist.
The UKIP is more “limited government” than the other two socialist parties that are even more popular.
The European Left's candidate for the European Commission presidency, Alexis Tsipras, Friday called for the immediate release of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams who is been held for questioning in connection with the 1972 murder of Jean McConville. Tsipras called the arrest a "politically inflammatory act against democracy".
The only tinkering Putin is doing in America right now is trying to get Trump impeached. He thought Hillary would win and he tried to make her go into office weakened.
TRUMP is a Putin nightmare. I wouldn’t doubt that Russians are feeding false Intel to FBI to help with collusion story. They are probably the source of some of the leaks to media.
Correlation is not causation. Both Putin’s influence and “European far right parties” are independent reactions to the rise and expansion of the EU bureaucracy’s influence and power.
The fact that they find some level of common cause is hardly surprising. Russia has always desired to influence the other Slavic states in Eastern Europe and the EU, for all its shortcomings, is an obstacle to that.
Within EU states, particularly in the west, the “far right” parties (and to a lesser extent hard left parties) are often the only available outlets for Europeans who distrust the centralization of power. Only Norway and Switzerland resisted joining, and the U.K. stands out as the only member state where anti-EU politicians were not marginalized.
In every other western European state, anti EU, anti immigration politicians have been marginalized and sometimes prosecuted by the establishment. Many voters rightfully resent the lack of voices and are now willing to support anyone who is willing to stand up to the would be hegemons of the EU.
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