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  1. And what if it was false friendship, Viktor? The false friend wants the world to go back to how it was before he was caught red-handed? In French we call this: vouloir le beurre & l'argent du beurre & la fille de la crémière #viktor #orban #hungary #russia #ukraine #oil #pipeline #russianinfluence

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t6ubj2wlhc34awzcymh3qpur/post/3mftlh3m7kc2t

  2. 𝗩𝗶𝗸𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗵𝘂𝗹𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗵 𝗣𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗳𝗱: '𝗧𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿'

    Viktor Verhulst (31) is op zijn knieën gegaan voor zijn grote liefde Sarah Puttemans (26). Op Instagram maakt Sarah dit heuglijke nieuws met een reeks foto's bekend. Het stel is ruim vier jaar samen en zet nu de volgende stap in hun relatie.

    rtl.nl/boulevard/entertainment

    #Viktor #Sarah #Verloofd

  3. 𝗩𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝗸𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗵𝘂𝗹𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻: '𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗺 𝗵𝗲𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝗻'

    Sarah Puttemans (25), de vriendin van Viktor Verhulst (30), heeft een spannend weekend achter de rug. Haar zenuwen speelden haar parten tijdens het eerste optreden in 'Dancing with the Stars', waar ze alleen maar onvoldoendes kreeg. Ze vertelt nu voor het eerst over haar...

    rtl.nl/boulevard/entertainment

    #Viktor #angsten #fout

  4. It’s fairly common for investigative journalists to be accused of being paid shills, or agents of a foreign power.
    Foreign dictators and kleptocrats do it daily.

    But becoming the target of a “deep state” conspiracy theory
    endorsed by the world’s richest man and supporters of the president of the United States is something else entirely.

    That’s what happened to me last week.

    It began because of a story, which a colleague and I wrote in collaboration with BuzzFeed News in July 2019.

    It shed light on Rudy Giuliani's attempts to dig up negative information on Donald Trump’s political opponents in Ukraine,
    where I was based at the time.

    The story made a small splash when it was published,
    mostly among politicos and Ukraine-watchers, but didn’t get a lot of traction.

    That was fine with me.

    As an Australian journalist working in Eastern Europe, I was just glad that I had published an interesting story that pushed forward what was known about Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine.

    But that September, it was cited in the footnotes of a report by a CIA whistleblower that sparked Trump’s first impeachment. 

    This citation is now at the center of absurd claims that we,
    as professional reporters,
    were part of a “deep state” plot to bring down the president of the United States.

    The pretext for this is that,
    like scores of independent media outlets around the world,
    OCCRP had received grants from USAID,
    the United States’ foreign development agency,
    which has recently come under the crosshairs of the new Trump administration.

    (As with all of our donors, USAID is contractually obligated to stay out of editorial work.) 

    One particularly excitable writer, #Michael #Shellenberger,
    who identifies himself as a free speech advocate, has gone so far as to label our story
    “highly illegal and even treasonous.” 

    The irony of it all?

    The story started as an investigation into the same target that Giuliani was after:
    Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian gas company he worked for, Burisma.

    But the thing about objective reporting is that it can lead you to unexpected places.

    Here’s how it began. 

    It was the middle of 2019,
    and I was relatively new to Ukraine,
    having moved there to live with my now-wife and work as an OCCRP editor helping local journalists with their investigations.

    I asked my Ukrainian colleagues what they thought we should be reporting on. -- They suggested we look into Hunter Biden and Burisma.

    There had already been a fair bit of reporting on the younger Biden's questionable relationship with the company.

    As an investigative reporter, I wondered if we could find something new to say about the situation. 

    I came across a series of articles written for The Hill by #John #Solomon, a conservative journalist, in which he made the explosive allegation that Joe Biden had pressured Ukraine to fire its former chief prosecutor, #Viktor #Shokin,
    in order to bury a case against Burisma. 

    To check this, I called up some anti-corruption experts in Ukraine who had been part of the effort to go after Burisma.

    They were friendly enough, but it was clear they thought I was a bit wet behind the ears.

    They explained that I had the story backwards.

    👉Ukrainians, they said, had been out on the streets protesting against Shokin because he was the one protecting Burisma from investigation, not the other way around.

    In fact, Biden had called for Shokin’s firing even though Burisma was paying his son.

    This didn’t absolve Hunter of wrongdoing — but it showed that, while making a handsome salary, he had failed to deliver the level of insider access Burisma may have hoped for.

    My original story idea was dead, though I did ultimately work on another investigation that cast scrutiny on Hunter Biden’s business partner the following year.

    (Strangely, our detractors seem to overlook that one.) 

    Meanwhile, I had a new mystery to unravel:

    how it came to be that a distorted version of the Hunter Biden/Burisma story had gained traction in the United States.

    I don’t usually cover the U.S.,
    and I felt a little out of my depth.

    So my Ukrainian colleagues and I reached out to BuzzFeed News to collaborate.

    We scoured the internet and started making calls on both sides of the Atlantic.

    The upside-down story being told by Solomon (and Giuliani) had clearly come from the former prosecutor Shokin, and his successor, Yuriy Lutsenko.

    We thought the answer might lie with two mysterious Ukraine-linked figures who had grown close to Giuliani,
    Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman.

    Both born in the Soviet Union, the men pursued a colorful life in South Florida.

    #Fruman was a businessman with ties back in the Ukrainian city of Odesa to a well-known gangster, known as “The Lightbulb.”

    #Parnas was a former stockbroker with a history of unpaid debts.

    (1/2)
    occrp.org/en/feature/investiga

  5. Since Donald Trump’s election victory, we have witnessed striking accommodations to his narrow win and mandate
    — what has been called anticipatory obedience.

    Are we sleepwalking into an autocracy?

    We hope not, and we would be glad if the threat does not materialize.

    But as close observers of people and places where democracy has come under pressure and occasionally buckled,
    we see creeping autocracy as a distinct and underdiscussed possibility.

    We know well other nations, including Hungary and Poland, where leaders have steered policies that lead to a backsliding of democracy.

    We see eerie similarities between what transpired in those countries and what Mr. Trump and his transition team have already done and promise to do.

    Fortunately, we also have examples of countries that have pushed back on threats to democracy, -- and we can learn from them.

    The Trump transition has featured the rapid-fire appointments of several cabinet officials who are both unqualified and potentially dangerous to the security and health of the American people.

    The transition has also included a flurry of actual and threatened libel actions against critics,
    followed by several media executives and owners caving in.

    Business leaders with economic interests dependent on the federal government have also made nice with the president-elect,
    who has threatened to use his regulatory power to pick favorites.

    In a second term, Mr. Trump’s actions may be even more dangerous
    because he is now following the playbook created by #Viktor #Orban, the prime minister of Hungary,
    who after losing and then regaining office moved his country from a democracy into an “#illiberal #state,” as he put it.

    It was one of the faster collapses of a robust democracy on record.

    nytimes.com/2025/01/15/opinion

  6. Day 396. Ref: ✔️

    Working on various skills, but not happy with todays output. Didn’t manage to accomplish what I was going for. Good practice though.

    #DailyDrawing #art #sketchbook #Procreate #Arcane #Vi #Silco #Viktor

  7. John Bolton rips into Trump’s pick for counter-terrorism chief Sebastian Gorka

    Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton has laid into #Sebastian #Gorka, the president-elect’s pick for
    👉counter-terrorism chief, as a “#conman
    whose selection is not “going to bode well for counter-terrorism efforts when the [national security council’s] senior director is somebody like that”.

    Trump praised Gorka, an immigrant from Hungary, as a “tireless advocate for the America First Agenda and the MAGA Movement”.

    But Bolton came out swinging at Gorka on Friday.
    The arch-conservative, who served in the Reagan, George W Bush and first Trump administrations, has set out his stall against many of Trump’s picks,
    including former Democrat and Iraq veteran #Tulsi #Gabbard for director of national intelligence, and told CNN that he “wouldn’t have him in any US government”.

    Earlier this week, Bolton told NewsNation’s The Hill that up until Gorka was nominated by Trump as a deputy assistant to the president and the senior director for counter-terrorism, he would have said that Gabbard’s nomination “was the
    💥worst cabinet appointment in recent American history”.

    Bolton’s not alone in his criticism. Democratic National Committee spokesperson Alex Floyd called
    “a far-right extremist who is as dangerous as he is unqualified to lead America’s counter-terrorism strategy”.

    Gorka is outspokenly pro-Israel and supportive of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,
    and has faced allegations of Islamophobia for supporting Trump’s 2017 Muslim travel ban that barred travel to the US for 90 days for visitors from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

    Gorka also claimed that Islam is “not a religion of peace”.
    He’s come under fire for showing up at Trump’s 2017 inaugural ball wearing an honorary medal from the
    ⭐️Hungarian nationalist organization #Vitézi #Rend
    and for a previous position serving as an adviser to the Hungarian prime minister, #Viktor #Orbán.

    Bolton said Gorka “needs a full FBI field background investigation” and his “education claims” need to be investigated.

    “I think he is a perfect example of somebody who owes his position purely to Donald Trump,” Bolton told the outlet.
    “He doesn’t display loyalty. He displays fealty. And that’s what Trump wants. …
    “He doesn’t want Gorka’s opinions, he wants Gorka to say ‘yes, sir’, and I’m fully confident that’s exactly what will happen no matter what it is Trump says.”
    theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n

  8. Russia 🇷🇺 has been engaged in a good deal of #dick-#wagging with Trump since the election.
    After Trump won, Russia did not call to congratulate — at least as far as we know
    (though #Viktor #Orbán seems to be Trump’s handler and he did).

    Putin did, on Thursday, butter up Trump, calling his response to being shot courageous and claiming interest in a deal.  Putin did what he always does with Trump: he played to his narcissism.

    On Friday, though, one of the most popular TV shows in Russia used a different approach (as made available by Julia Davis’ Russian Media Monitor)
    — airing #Melania’s nude photos in the guise of noting that she was years ago photographed with a US seal, as if someone knew she would be First Lady

    emptywheel.net/2024/11/12/russ

  9. ⭐️The ‘Traditionalists’ and Trump⭐️

    With the election of #Trump, Putin has found a potential ally in unwinding the trans-Atlantic networks that support the liberal democracies that flowered following the end of the Cold War.

    Trump, like Putin, has made his disdain for groups like NATO and the EU clear,

    and pushed a vision of Victorian-era spheres of interest,
    in which regional powers are allowed something far closer to free reign in their respective regions than anything seen during the post-Cold War period.

    While Trump falls back on fiscal arguments,
    claiming that security relations with other NATO member-states aren’t worth the price of maintaining the U.S.’s participation,
    his opposition to organizations like the European Union parallels arguments out of the Kremlin
    —all while Trump continues defending Putin’s policies.

    Any time he’s faced with questions of Putin’s probity
    —of Moscow’s destruction of an independent press, say,
    or of the Kremlin’s suffocation of opposition actors
    —Trump deflects.

    Not only has the former president continued casting doubt on the U.S. intelligence consensus that Moscow meddled in the American election to support Trump,
    but he has further said Putin has been
    “far more” of a “leader” than former President Barack Obama ever was.

    Indeed, it’s within Trump’s outspoken praise for Putin that we can trace the contours of the reasons
    white nationalists and members of the Religious Right continue to look to Moscow for support and inspiration,
    and continue to admire and praise Putin’s policies.

    For white nationalists, in their blinkered understanding of recent developments in Moscow,
    Putin presents something of an ur-leader:

    a head of state embodying an idealized view of masculinity,
    undistracted by legal or cultural niceties in pursuit of his ultimate end-goals.

    Rather than remaining within the understood boundaries of post-Cold War politics,
    Putin has, to America’s white nationalists,
    reclaimed the primacy of a white, Christian population within a multi-ethnic federation:

    a model white nationalists envision as a possibility under Trump.

    The Religious Right, meanwhile, stands enthralled with Putin’s willingness to bolster the church,
    with the Russian Orthodox Church maintaining a clear, superior role both within the state and over other non-Christian religions.

    Moscow is only too happy to provide both financial and organizational backing for sympathetic groups in the U.S. and elsewhere,
    and is almost certain to do so for the foreseeable future.

    And with Trump’s inauguration, Moscow has a man in Washington who, by all appearances,
    has little interest in investigating these ties,
    or of slowing these swelling links.

    While Trump and his team occupy the White House, Russia will have an ally in attempting to roll back the liberal order,
    with the American president acting as a partner,
    witting or otherwise, of the Kremlin
    —as well as the white nationalists and Religious Right cohorts on both sides of the Atlantic,
    whose support for the Kremlin seems likely to accelerate for the foreseeable future.

    (10/10)
    #Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars

  10. ⭐️The ‘Traditionalists’ and Trump⭐️

    With the election of #Trump, Putin has found a potential ally in unwinding the trans-Atlantic networks that support the liberal democracies that flowered following the end of the Cold War.

    Trump, like Putin, has made his disdain for groups like NATO and the EU clear,

    and pushed a vision of Victorian-era spheres of interest,
    in which regional powers are allowed something far closer to free reign in their respective regions than anything seen during the post-Cold War period.

    While Trump falls back on fiscal arguments,
    claiming that security relations with other NATO member-states aren’t worth the price of maintaining the U.S.’s participation,
    his opposition to organizations like the European Union parallels arguments out of the Kremlin
    —all while Trump continues defending Putin’s policies.

    Any time he’s faced with questions of Putin’s probity
    —of Moscow’s destruction of an independent press, say,
    or of the Kremlin’s suffocation of opposition actors
    —Trump deflects.

    Not only has the former president continued casting doubt on the U.S. intelligence consensus that Moscow meddled in the American election to support Trump,
    but he has further said Putin has been
    “far more” of a “leader” than former President Barack Obama ever was.

    Indeed, it’s within Trump’s outspoken praise for Putin that we can trace the contours of the reasons
    white nationalists and members of the Religious Right continue to look to Moscow for support and inspiration,
    and continue to admire and praise Putin’s policies.

    For white nationalists, in their blinkered understanding of recent developments in Moscow,
    Putin presents something of an ur-leader:

    a head of state embodying an idealized view of masculinity,
    undistracted by legal or cultural niceties in pursuit of his ultimate end-goals.

    Rather than remaining within the understood boundaries of post-Cold War politics,
    Putin has, to America’s white nationalists,
    reclaimed the primacy of a white, Christian population within a multi-ethnic federation:

    a model white nationalists envision as a possibility under Trump.

    The Religious Right, meanwhile, stands enthralled with Putin’s willingness to bolster the church,
    with the Russian Orthodox Church maintaining a clear, superior role both within the state and over other non-Christian religions.

    Moscow is only too happy to provide both financial and organizational backing for sympathetic groups in the U.S. and elsewhere,
    and is almost certain to do so for the foreseeable future.

    And with Trump’s inauguration, Moscow has a man in Washington who, by all appearances,
    has little interest in investigating these ties,
    or of slowing these swelling links.

    While Trump and his team occupy the White House, Russia will have an ally in attempting to roll back the liberal order,
    with the American president acting as a partner,
    witting or otherwise, of the Kremlin
    —as well as the white nationalists and Religious Right cohorts on both sides of the Atlantic,
    whose support for the Kremlin seems likely to accelerate for the foreseeable future.

    (10/10)
    #Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars

  11. ⭐️The ‘Traditionalists’ and Trump⭐️

    With the election of #Trump, Putin has found a potential ally in unwinding the trans-Atlantic networks that support the liberal democracies that flowered following the end of the Cold War.

    Trump, like Putin, has made his disdain for groups like NATO and the EU clear,

    and pushed a vision of Victorian-era spheres of interest,
    in which regional powers are allowed something far closer to free reign in their respective regions than anything seen during the post-Cold War period.

    While Trump falls back on fiscal arguments,
    claiming that security relations with other NATO member-states aren’t worth the price of maintaining the U.S.’s participation,
    his opposition to organizations like the European Union parallels arguments out of the Kremlin
    —all while Trump continues defending Putin’s policies.

    Any time he’s faced with questions of Putin’s probity
    —of Moscow’s destruction of an independent press, say,
    or of the Kremlin’s suffocation of opposition actors
    —Trump deflects.

    Not only has the former president continued casting doubt on the U.S. intelligence consensus that Moscow meddled in the American election to support Trump,
    but he has further said Putin has been
    “far more” of a “leader” than former President Barack Obama ever was.

    Indeed, it’s within Trump’s outspoken praise for Putin that we can trace the contours of the reasons
    white nationalists and members of the Religious Right continue to look to Moscow for support and inspiration,
    and continue to admire and praise Putin’s policies.

    For white nationalists, in their blinkered understanding of recent developments in Moscow,
    Putin presents something of an ur-leader:

    a head of state embodying an idealized view of masculinity,
    undistracted by legal or cultural niceties in pursuit of his ultimate end-goals.

    Rather than remaining within the understood boundaries of post-Cold War politics,
    Putin has, to America’s white nationalists,
    reclaimed the primacy of a white, Christian population within a multi-ethnic federation:

    a model white nationalists envision as a possibility under Trump.

    The Religious Right, meanwhile, stands enthralled with Putin’s willingness to bolster the church,
    with the Russian Orthodox Church maintaining a clear, superior role both within the state and over other non-Christian religions.

    Moscow is only too happy to provide both financial and organizational backing for sympathetic groups in the U.S. and elsewhere,
    and is almost certain to do so for the foreseeable future.

    And with Trump’s inauguration, Moscow has a man in Washington who, by all appearances,
    has little interest in investigating these ties,
    or of slowing these swelling links.

    While Trump and his team occupy the White House, Russia will have an ally in attempting to roll back the liberal order,
    with the American president acting as a partner,
    witting or otherwise, of the Kremlin
    —as well as the white nationalists and Religious Right cohorts on both sides of the Atlantic,
    whose support for the Kremlin seems likely to accelerate for the foreseeable future.

    (10/10)
    #Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars

  12. ⭐️The ‘Traditionalists’ and Trump⭐️

    With the election of #Trump, Putin has found a potential ally in unwinding the trans-Atlantic networks that support the liberal democracies that flowered following the end of the Cold War.

    Trump, like Putin, has made his disdain for groups like NATO and the EU clear,

    and pushed a vision of Victorian-era spheres of interest,
    in which regional powers are allowed something far closer to free reign in their respective regions than anything seen during the post-Cold War period.

    While Trump falls back on fiscal arguments,
    claiming that security relations with other NATO member-states aren’t worth the price of maintaining the U.S.’s participation,
    his opposition to organizations like the European Union parallels arguments out of the Kremlin
    —all while Trump continues defending Putin’s policies.

    Any time he’s faced with questions of Putin’s probity
    —of Moscow’s destruction of an independent press, say,
    or of the Kremlin’s suffocation of opposition actors
    —Trump deflects.

    Not only has the former president continued casting doubt on the U.S. intelligence consensus that Moscow meddled in the American election to support Trump,
    but he has further said Putin has been
    “far more” of a “leader” than former President Barack Obama ever was.

    Indeed, it’s within Trump’s outspoken praise for Putin that we can trace the contours of the reasons
    white nationalists and members of the Religious Right continue to look to Moscow for support and inspiration,
    and continue to admire and praise Putin’s policies.

    For white nationalists, in their blinkered understanding of recent developments in Moscow,
    Putin presents something of an ur-leader:

    a head of state embodying an idealized view of masculinity,
    undistracted by legal or cultural niceties in pursuit of his ultimate end-goals.

    Rather than remaining within the understood boundaries of post-Cold War politics,
    Putin has, to America’s white nationalists,
    reclaimed the primacy of a white, Christian population within a multi-ethnic federation:

    a model white nationalists envision as a possibility under Trump.

    The Religious Right, meanwhile, stands enthralled with Putin’s willingness to bolster the church,
    with the Russian Orthodox Church maintaining a clear, superior role both within the state and over other non-Christian religions.

    Moscow is only too happy to provide both financial and organizational backing for sympathetic groups in the U.S. and elsewhere,
    and is almost certain to do so for the foreseeable future.

    And with Trump’s inauguration, Moscow has a man in Washington who, by all appearances,
    has little interest in investigating these ties,
    or of slowing these swelling links.

    While Trump and his team occupy the White House, Russia will have an ally in attempting to roll back the liberal order,
    with the American president acting as a partner,
    witting or otherwise, of the Kremlin
    —as well as the white nationalists and Religious Right cohorts on both sides of the Atlantic,
    whose support for the Kremlin seems likely to accelerate for the foreseeable future.

    (10/10)
    #Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars

  13. ⭐️The ‘Traditionalists’ and Trump⭐️

    With the election of #Trump, Putin has found a potential ally in unwinding the trans-Atlantic networks that support the liberal democracies that flowered following the end of the Cold War.

    Trump, like Putin, has made his disdain for groups like NATO and the EU clear,

    and pushed a vision of Victorian-era spheres of interest,
    in which regional powers are allowed something far closer to free reign in their respective regions than anything seen during the post-Cold War period.

    While Trump falls back on fiscal arguments,
    claiming that security relations with other NATO member-states aren’t worth the price of maintaining the U.S.’s participation,
    his opposition to organizations like the European Union parallels arguments out of the Kremlin
    —all while Trump continues defending Putin’s policies.

    Any time he’s faced with questions of Putin’s probity
    —of Moscow’s destruction of an independent press, say,
    or of the Kremlin’s suffocation of opposition actors
    —Trump deflects.

    Not only has the former president continued casting doubt on the U.S. intelligence consensus that Moscow meddled in the American election to support Trump,
    but he has further said Putin has been
    “far more” of a “leader” than former President Barack Obama ever was.

    Indeed, it’s within Trump’s outspoken praise for Putin that we can trace the contours of the reasons
    white nationalists and members of the Religious Right continue to look to Moscow for support and inspiration,
    and continue to admire and praise Putin’s policies.

    For white nationalists, in their blinkered understanding of recent developments in Moscow,
    Putin presents something of an ur-leader:

    a head of state embodying an idealized view of masculinity,
    undistracted by legal or cultural niceties in pursuit of his ultimate end-goals.

    Rather than remaining within the understood boundaries of post-Cold War politics,
    Putin has, to America’s white nationalists,
    reclaimed the primacy of a white, Christian population within a multi-ethnic federation:

    a model white nationalists envision as a possibility under Trump.

    The Religious Right, meanwhile, stands enthralled with Putin’s willingness to bolster the church,
    with the Russian Orthodox Church maintaining a clear, superior role both within the state and over other non-Christian religions.

    Moscow is only too happy to provide both financial and organizational backing for sympathetic groups in the U.S. and elsewhere,
    and is almost certain to do so for the foreseeable future.

    And with Trump’s inauguration, Moscow has a man in Washington who, by all appearances,
    has little interest in investigating these ties,
    or of slowing these swelling links.

    While Trump and his team occupy the White House, Russia will have an ally in attempting to roll back the liberal order,
    with the American president acting as a partner,
    witting or otherwise, of the Kremlin
    —as well as the white nationalists and Religious Right cohorts on both sides of the Atlantic,
    whose support for the Kremlin seems likely to accelerate for the foreseeable future.

    (10/10)
    #Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars

  14. The links between American conservative organizations and Putin’s inner circle,
    including those tasked with pushing the Kremlin’s geopolitical policies throughout the West,
    have sometimes created outsized tensions for those on the American end of the relationship.

    One such moment came in early 2014,
    when Putin began citing the protection of ethnic Russians
    —and Russian Orthodox believers
    —as rationale for the annexation of Crimea.

    Even though the WCF announced that it would cancel its planned 2014 conference in Moscow,
    many of the scheduled speakers nonetheless showed up,
    and the conference proceeded in all but name.

    Beyond that, though, the gathering confirmed a trend long in the making, says Stroop.

    Indeed, the 2014 conference, he said, represented
    “Russia taking on the mantle of leadership of global social conservatism.”

    (9/N)

    #Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars

  15. The links between American conservative organizations and Putin’s inner circle,
    including those tasked with pushing the Kremlin’s geopolitical policies throughout the West,
    have sometimes created outsized tensions for those on the American end of the relationship.

    One such moment came in early 2014,
    when Putin began citing the protection of ethnic Russians
    —and Russian Orthodox believers
    —as rationale for the annexation of Crimea.

    Even though the WCF announced that it would cancel its planned 2014 conference in Moscow,
    many of the scheduled speakers nonetheless showed up,
    and the conference proceeded in all but name.

    Beyond that, though, the gathering confirmed a trend long in the making, says Stroop.

    Indeed, the 2014 conference, he said, represented
    “Russia taking on the mantle of leadership of global social conservatism.”

    (9/N)

    #Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars

  16. The links between American conservative organizations and Putin’s inner circle,
    including those tasked with pushing the Kremlin’s geopolitical policies throughout the West,
    have sometimes created outsized tensions for those on the American end of the relationship.

    One such moment came in early 2014,
    when Putin began citing the protection of ethnic Russians
    —and Russian Orthodox believers
    —as rationale for the annexation of Crimea.

    Even though the WCF announced that it would cancel its planned 2014 conference in Moscow,
    many of the scheduled speakers nonetheless showed up,
    and the conference proceeded in all but name.

    Beyond that, though, the gathering confirmed a trend long in the making, says Stroop.

    Indeed, the 2014 conference, he said, represented
    “Russia taking on the mantle of leadership of global social conservatism.”

    (9/N)

    #Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars

  17. The links between American conservative organizations and Putin’s inner circle,
    including those tasked with pushing the Kremlin’s geopolitical policies throughout the West,
    have sometimes created outsized tensions for those on the American end of the relationship.

    One such moment came in early 2014,
    when Putin began citing the protection of ethnic Russians
    —and Russian Orthodox believers
    —as rationale for the annexation of Crimea.

    Even though the WCF announced that it would cancel its planned 2014 conference in Moscow,
    many of the scheduled speakers nonetheless showed up,
    and the conference proceeded in all but name.

    Beyond that, though, the gathering confirmed a trend long in the making, says Stroop.

    Indeed, the 2014 conference, he said, represented
    “Russia taking on the mantle of leadership of global social conservatism.”

    (9/N)

    #Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars

  18. The links between American conservative organizations and Putin’s inner circle,
    including those tasked with pushing the Kremlin’s geopolitical policies throughout the West,
    have sometimes created outsized tensions for those on the American end of the relationship.

    One such moment came in early 2014,
    when Putin began citing the protection of ethnic Russians
    —and Russian Orthodox believers
    —as rationale for the annexation of Crimea.

    Even though the WCF announced that it would cancel its planned 2014 conference in Moscow,
    many of the scheduled speakers nonetheless showed up,
    and the conference proceeded in all but name.

    Beyond that, though, the gathering confirmed a trend long in the making, says Stroop.

    Indeed, the 2014 conference, he said, represented
    “Russia taking on the mantle of leadership of global social conservatism.”

    (9/N)

    #Yelena #Mizulina #Vladimir #Yakunin #dominionist #Bryan #Fischer #Franklin #Graham #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars

  19. The links between Russian officials and the American Religious Right,
    like those between Kremlin-linked actors and American white nationalists,
    are easy to trace.

    According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Duma member #Yelena #Mizulina,
    who helped spearhead Russia’s anti-gay “propaganda” law,
    has been “heavily involved” with the WCF.

    #Vladimir #Yakunin, former head of Russian Railways
    —and a Kremlin insider who has cultivated additional links with the American theocratic “#dominionist” movement
    —has also served as a WCF committee member.

    Likewise, Russia’s 2011 package of anti-abortion legislation saw conspicuous links with the WCF’s efforts.

    To wit, the package of abortion restrictions, speared by Mizulina, was launched a day after a series of WCF higher-ups,
    including Carlson and Managing Director Larry Jacobs,
    settled into Moscow for a
    “Demographic Summit,”
    the WCF’s most substantial assembly in Russia to date.

    As the head of a Russian women’s advocacy group later said,
    “It was 100 percent clear that everything [in the anti-abortion legislation] was copied from the experience of American fundamentalists
    and conservative circles of several European countries
    where abortion is forbidden or restricted severely.”

    Or as the WCF would later claim in its promotional material:

    The WCF “helped pass the first Russian laws restricting abortion in modern history.”

    Still, the WCF is by no means the lone U.S. Religious Right organization outspoken in its praise of Moscow,
    or supporting Kremlin policy.

    Over the past few years, arch-conservatives in the U.S. have begun espousing something approaching infatuation with Putin,
    especially for Moscow’s leading role in both passing and encouraging anti-LGBT legislation.

    For instance, #Bryan #Fischer, who until 2015 was a spokesman for the "American Family Association"
    and who still hosts a show broadcast over its radio network,
    has called Putin the
    “lion of Christianity.”

    Evangelist #Franklin #Graham
    —who visited Russia in 2015 to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill
    —has likewise lauded Putin as someone “protecting traditional Christianity.”

    (8/N)

    #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars

  20. The links between Russian officials and the American Religious Right,
    like those between Kremlin-linked actors and American white nationalists,
    are easy to trace.

    According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Duma member #Yelena #Mizulina,
    who helped spearhead Russia’s anti-gay “propaganda” law,
    has been “heavily involved” with the WCF.

    #Vladimir #Yakunin, former head of Russian Railways
    —and a Kremlin insider who has cultivated additional links with the American theocratic “#dominionist” movement
    —has also served as a WCF committee member.

    Likewise, Russia’s 2011 package of anti-abortion legislation saw conspicuous links with the WCF’s efforts.

    To wit, the package of abortion restrictions, speared by Mizulina, was launched a day after a series of WCF higher-ups,
    including Carlson and Managing Director Larry Jacobs,
    settled into Moscow for a
    “Demographic Summit,”
    the WCF’s most substantial assembly in Russia to date.

    As the head of a Russian women’s advocacy group later said,
    “It was 100 percent clear that everything [in the anti-abortion legislation] was copied from the experience of American fundamentalists
    and conservative circles of several European countries
    where abortion is forbidden or restricted severely.”

    Or as the WCF would later claim in its promotional material:

    The WCF “helped pass the first Russian laws restricting abortion in modern history.”

    Still, the WCF is by no means the lone U.S. Religious Right organization outspoken in its praise of Moscow,
    or supporting Kremlin policy.

    Over the past few years, arch-conservatives in the U.S. have begun espousing something approaching infatuation with Putin,
    especially for Moscow’s leading role in both passing and encouraging anti-LGBT legislation.

    For instance, #Bryan #Fischer, who until 2015 was a spokesman for the "American Family Association"
    and who still hosts a show broadcast over its radio network,
    has called Putin the
    “lion of Christianity.”

    Evangelist #Franklin #Graham
    —who visited Russia in 2015 to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill
    —has likewise lauded Putin as someone “protecting traditional Christianity.”

    (8/N)

    #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars

  21. The links between Russian officials and the American Religious Right,
    like those between Kremlin-linked actors and American white nationalists,
    are easy to trace.

    According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Duma member #Yelena #Mizulina,
    who helped spearhead Russia’s anti-gay “propaganda” law,
    has been “heavily involved” with the WCF.

    #Vladimir #Yakunin, former head of Russian Railways
    —and a Kremlin insider who has cultivated additional links with the American theocratic “#dominionist” movement
    —has also served as a WCF committee member.

    Likewise, Russia’s 2011 package of anti-abortion legislation saw conspicuous links with the WCF’s efforts.

    To wit, the package of abortion restrictions, speared by Mizulina, was launched a day after a series of WCF higher-ups,
    including Carlson and Managing Director Larry Jacobs,
    settled into Moscow for a
    “Demographic Summit,”
    the WCF’s most substantial assembly in Russia to date.

    As the head of a Russian women’s advocacy group later said,
    “It was 100 percent clear that everything [in the anti-abortion legislation] was copied from the experience of American fundamentalists
    and conservative circles of several European countries
    where abortion is forbidden or restricted severely.”

    Or as the WCF would later claim in its promotional material:

    The WCF “helped pass the first Russian laws restricting abortion in modern history.”

    Still, the WCF is by no means the lone U.S. Religious Right organization outspoken in its praise of Moscow,
    or supporting Kremlin policy.

    Over the past few years, arch-conservatives in the U.S. have begun espousing something approaching infatuation with Putin,
    especially for Moscow’s leading role in both passing and encouraging anti-LGBT legislation.

    For instance, #Bryan #Fischer, who until 2015 was a spokesman for the "American Family Association"
    and who still hosts a show broadcast over its radio network,
    has called Putin the
    “lion of Christianity.”

    Evangelist #Franklin #Graham
    —who visited Russia in 2015 to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill
    —has likewise lauded Putin as someone “protecting traditional Christianity.”

    (8/N)

    #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars

  22. The links between Russian officials and the American Religious Right,
    like those between Kremlin-linked actors and American white nationalists,
    are easy to trace.

    According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Duma member #Yelena #Mizulina,
    who helped spearhead Russia’s anti-gay “propaganda” law,
    has been “heavily involved” with the WCF.

    #Vladimir #Yakunin, former head of Russian Railways
    —and a Kremlin insider who has cultivated additional links with the American theocratic “#dominionist” movement
    —has also served as a WCF committee member.

    Likewise, Russia’s 2011 package of anti-abortion legislation saw conspicuous links with the WCF’s efforts.

    To wit, the package of abortion restrictions, speared by Mizulina, was launched a day after a series of WCF higher-ups,
    including Carlson and Managing Director Larry Jacobs,
    settled into Moscow for a
    “Demographic Summit,”
    the WCF’s most substantial assembly in Russia to date.

    As the head of a Russian women’s advocacy group later said,
    “It was 100 percent clear that everything [in the anti-abortion legislation] was copied from the experience of American fundamentalists
    and conservative circles of several European countries
    where abortion is forbidden or restricted severely.”

    Or as the WCF would later claim in its promotional material:

    The WCF “helped pass the first Russian laws restricting abortion in modern history.”

    Still, the WCF is by no means the lone U.S. Religious Right organization outspoken in its praise of Moscow,
    or supporting Kremlin policy.

    Over the past few years, arch-conservatives in the U.S. have begun espousing something approaching infatuation with Putin,
    especially for Moscow’s leading role in both passing and encouraging anti-LGBT legislation.

    For instance, #Bryan #Fischer, who until 2015 was a spokesman for the "American Family Association"
    and who still hosts a show broadcast over its radio network,
    has called Putin the
    “lion of Christianity.”

    Evangelist #Franklin #Graham
    —who visited Russia in 2015 to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill
    —has likewise lauded Putin as someone “protecting traditional Christianity.”

    (8/N)

    #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars

  23. The links between Russian officials and the American Religious Right,
    like those between Kremlin-linked actors and American white nationalists,
    are easy to trace.

    According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Duma member #Yelena #Mizulina,
    who helped spearhead Russia’s anti-gay “propaganda” law,
    has been “heavily involved” with the WCF.

    #Vladimir #Yakunin, former head of Russian Railways
    —and a Kremlin insider who has cultivated additional links with the American theocratic “#dominionist” movement
    —has also served as a WCF committee member.

    Likewise, Russia’s 2011 package of anti-abortion legislation saw conspicuous links with the WCF’s efforts.

    To wit, the package of abortion restrictions, speared by Mizulina, was launched a day after a series of WCF higher-ups,
    including Carlson and Managing Director Larry Jacobs,
    settled into Moscow for a
    “Demographic Summit,”
    the WCF’s most substantial assembly in Russia to date.

    As the head of a Russian women’s advocacy group later said,
    “It was 100 percent clear that everything [in the anti-abortion legislation] was copied from the experience of American fundamentalists
    and conservative circles of several European countries
    where abortion is forbidden or restricted severely.”

    Or as the WCF would later claim in its promotional material:

    The WCF “helped pass the first Russian laws restricting abortion in modern history.”

    Still, the WCF is by no means the lone U.S. Religious Right organization outspoken in its praise of Moscow,
    or supporting Kremlin policy.

    Over the past few years, arch-conservatives in the U.S. have begun espousing something approaching infatuation with Putin,
    especially for Moscow’s leading role in both passing and encouraging anti-LGBT legislation.

    For instance, #Bryan #Fischer, who until 2015 was a spokesman for the "American Family Association"
    and who still hosts a show broadcast over its radio network,
    has called Putin the
    “lion of Christianity.”

    Evangelist #Franklin #Graham
    —who visited Russia in 2015 to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill
    —has likewise lauded Putin as someone “protecting traditional Christianity.”

    (8/N)

    #WCF #Allan #Carlson #Anatoly #Antonov #Viktor #Medkov #antiLGBT #Alexey #Komov #Brian #Brown #IOF #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars