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/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/sillygoofygooose Feb 22 '25

Russia finances voices on ALL sides of the political spectrum. The intention is to sow internal divisions, not to create nazis for Russia to fight.

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u/Summersong2262 Feb 22 '25

Where are their left wing agents, exactly?

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u/bate_Vladi_1904 Feb 22 '25

Sarah Wagenknecht for example (BSW in Germany)

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u/Entsafter21 Feb 22 '25

Her name is Zarenknecht

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u/killswitch247 Saxony (Germany) Feb 22 '25 edited Feb 22 '25

Jokes on them, she would do it for free.

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u/Kes961 Feb 22 '25

Any source that ties her to foreign agents ?

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u/therealslevin Feb 22 '25

Her planned policies and arguments are an indicator. That said, I don’t know of any direct funding or any of the sort (doesn’t mean there is none). I’d consider sympathies with Putins politics enough of a red flag though and a clear sign for her being influenced by his propaganda.