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Putin Is Infiltrating European Politics With Shocking Effectiveness
Business Insider ^ | 14 Dec 14 | Jeremy Bender

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Russia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: alexistsipras; birdsofafeather; bulgaria; cesi; europeanunion; france; germany; greece; hungary; johnschindler; nato; putinsbuttboys; russia; schindler; syriza; unitedkingdom; viktororban
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To: BobL
But then Obama declared him to be our enemy, and we FReepers got in line behind him.

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.

21 posted on 12/14/2014 2:40:44 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: elhombrelibre

UKIP? Really? What a bunch of crap!


22 posted on 12/14/2014 2:58:07 PM PST by nomad
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To: BobL

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.


23 posted on 12/14/2014 6:41:07 PM PST by KOZ.
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To: ConservativeMind
I don't think his credentials are weak at all.

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.

24 posted on 12/14/2014 9:05:44 PM PST by Krosan
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To: Krosan
Good catch, but I believe he lost his job due to some inappropriate behavior:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2668736/Woman-outed-married-U-S-Naval-War-College-professor-sent-nude-photo-says-regrets-going-public-allegations.html

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.

25 posted on 12/14/2014 9:27:39 PM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: elhombrelibre
This article is garbage. Business Insider will print anything that attracts clicks and invites embarrassments like this.

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.

26 posted on 12/14/2014 9:41:55 PM PST by Praxeologue
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To: ConservativeMind

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.


27 posted on 12/14/2014 10:12:52 PM PST by Krosan
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To: Krosan

All political parties in Europe are socialist.

The UKIP is more “limited government” than the other two socialist parties that are even more popular.


28 posted on 12/15/2014 5:08:23 AM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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29 posted on 01/26/2015 2:28:18 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: elhombrelibre
Speaking of Schindler: http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265886/intelligence-community-leaking-matthew-vadum Intelligence Community Leaking ‎2‎/‎23‎/‎2017‎ ‎7‎:‎51‎:‎01‎ ‎AM · by detective · 11 replies Frontpage ^ | February 23, 2017 | Matthew Vadum Saboteurs in the U.S. intelligence community posing as patriots have been working hard to drive President Donald Trump from the White House. Former National Security Agency intelligence analyst and former War College professor John R. Schindler bragged on Twitter last week about the spy-led plot his friends are conducting against the president. “Now we go nuclear,” he tweeted. “IC [intelligence community] war [is] going to new levels. Just got an [email from] senior IC friend, it began: ‘He will die in jail.'” “US intelligence is not the problem here,” Schindler added. “The President’s collusion with Russian intelligence is. Many details,...
30 posted on 06/21/2017 10:07:29 PM PDT by piasa
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To: elhombrelibre

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.


31 posted on 06/21/2017 10:24:14 PM PDT by weston (SO HERE'S THE STORY: As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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To: elhombrelibre

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.


32 posted on 06/21/2017 10:40:07 PM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.)
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