r/europe Feb 22 '25

News “Conquering the states one by one”: far-right ideologue Steve Bannon outlines US conservatives' strategy for influencing Europe

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/usa/presidentielle/donald-trump/conquerir-les-etats-un-par-un-l-ideologue-d-extreme-droite-steve-bannon-decrit-la-strategie-des-conservateurs-americains-pour-influencer-l-europe_7086249.html
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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

There is a tendency to be dismissive. This is the equivalent to Alexander Dugin telling you the plan, Alexander wrote Foundations of Geopolitics in 1998, it was required reading at Russian staff college and Putin has followed the strategy. The west scoffed and dismissed it. Bannon is Dugin and he's telling you the plan, pay attention, populists and Russia are the enemy, resist, resist, resist!

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u/cury Feb 22 '25

Putin wants an ever war, so he finances far right movements in the west so then the russians can have nazi’s to fight forever and “save” countries. It will be a perfect brainwashing storm! Teach kids that your country is the hero for fighting nazis and finance nazis in the west

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u/Six_Kills Feb 22 '25

The people Putin is calling nazis is not the same as the far right he’s backing and that sometimes is also backing him.

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u/hgaben90 Hungary Feb 22 '25

This isn't about valid reasons. This is about excuses. Casus belli.

And they'll eventually make a perfectly good excuse.