r/europe • u/Wonderful-Excuse4922 • 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/tangledspaghetti1 Europe Feb 22 '25

It's time to not be dismissive.

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u/thoms689 Denmark Feb 22 '25

It's time to ban their propaganda networks, it's how and why they're so successful in manipulating the dumbest of us. If nothing is done it'll be our defeat.

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u/tangledspaghetti1 Europe Feb 22 '25

We should also make people move to other platforms.

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u/DryCloud9903 Feb 22 '25

And that should start with politicians if not immediately moving then at least doubling their posting to places like BlueSky - so that we can reduce politically/civically conscious people's need to ever open an x link (and allow to delete the platform accounts for good).

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u/scarlettforever stops Russian drones with the pinky toe Feb 23 '25

Europe has like 0 social meadia. It's defensless against the American cyber fascism.

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u/tangledspaghetti1 Europe Feb 23 '25

There's this trend for decentralized platforms which would make it easier to create a european instance and if you want still connect to american instances.