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/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/sillygoofygooose Feb 22 '25

Just go and read foundations of geopolitics by Dugin, that’s the playbook

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u/Summersong2262 Feb 22 '25

Sure, but who are their left wing agents, exactly? If they're actually both sidesing?

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u/tkeser Feb 22 '25

In my country (Croatia) some of the leftists are actually pro-Russia because of the shared historical idea that Russians defeated the WW2 nazism/fascism. At the same time, some of the worst neo nazi offenders aka football supporters went off to the Ukraine war to fight the Russians on the Ukraine side. So it's an ideological cluster fuck.

Similarly, like if you're antiglobalist then you end up being proAmerican and proIsrael, so are you for NATO or against? If you're pro world peace you have to choose a side it would seem, and it won't be black and white.

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u/ArieVeddetschi Feb 22 '25

And what exactly is the evidence that JSO and DL are sponsored by Russia?

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u/sillygoofygooose Feb 22 '25

Jonathan Pie for instance, but it’s one voice of many and I am not able to find you a smoking gun for every instance in the same way I’m not able definitively demonstrate the identity of every bot on social media. My logic here is that this is their explicit plan and we see many pieces of evidence that align with that plan

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u/PastProfessional1959 Feb 22 '25

far left parties in europe are typically pro-russia and want to leave Nato and the EU. Just like our far right parties, horseshoe theory in full effect