A former Pentagon contractor works with secretive sections of US special forces, then ups and moves to Russia. He gets married, radicalizes and starts popping up on Telegram channels as the leader of a neo-Nazi terrorist group recruiting Americans.

https://archive.ph/29a4O

  • Realitätsverlust
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    216 days ago

    Wait that’s a question? Of course they are doing that.

    Russia is also behind man of the far-right parties in europe, like the AfD in germany and the GRN in france. It’s old news at this point honestly.

    • @glorkon@lemmy.world
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      66 days ago

      Russia is also behind Trump and his cronies, and noone can convince me otherwise. They may not have a fearsome military (except for the canned sunshine), but they’re very adept at undermining democracies from within. Because our Achilles heel is stupid people.

    • ssillyssadass
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      15 days ago

      We really need to take an offensive against Russia. Information warfare is still warfare, and Russia has been attacking us for years.

      • Realitätsverlust
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        25 days ago

        You can’t take an offensive against the information war because that would quickly result in authoritarian practices where certain kinds of information are suppressed - you do not want to go there at all.

        Social media killed media literacy, that’s the issue. We need to rebuild that.

  • @Gismonda@lemmy.world
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    447 days ago

    Well, yes…and it’s been quite obvious for some time now.

    I can’t have been the only person who noticed the weird sudden pattern of American Neo-Nazis with hot Russian wives a decade ago.

    • @Etterra@discuss.online
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      66 days ago

      Or the crazy, Faux News brain rotted people. Or the angry rednecks who don’t care, they’re just happy they can be openly hateful.

      • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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        46 days ago

        Give them a face to rest their boots on, and they’ll cheerfully lick the boots of their rulers.

  • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    357 days ago

    Foundations of Geopolitics was published in 1997 by Aleksandr Dugin. It outlines how Russia can become the world’s dominant superpower without warfare. It is taught in Russia’s military officers school, Putin keeps a copy in his office, and it is Russia’s geopolitical playbook. Dugin is still closely involved with Putin and Russian intelligence, and so was his daughter, who was murdered in a car bombing that was likely meant for him.

    Under the section for the United States, it says:

    Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists” to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.

    I’ve always been curious about the sentence ”Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada." What exactly do they mean by “special services?” Clearly they had something already staged in America, most likely human assets. A few years ago they discovered a cell of Russian intelligence moles, and shipped them back. Now we see that they infiltrated white supremacist groups as well, which would fit the description in the book.

    And of course our president has ties to Russia going back to Soviet era 1987, and even has a code name. His treason is well-established. He is likely one of the “special services” referred to.

    • @Glitterbomb@lemmy.world
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      66 days ago

      Here’s a photo of dugin realizing he forgot to add a chapter in his book about geopolitics. I’ll never tire of it.

      • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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        36 days ago

        He was supposed to be in that car with his daughter, but he went back in to retrieve an umbrella, when it blew up.

        I hadn’t seen that photo before, thanks.

  • @Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    337 days ago

    Putin does everything to destabilize the west this way. It is cheaper for him to find idiots to do his dirty work in the west than to attack us.

    • @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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      97 days ago

      Yep, and they promote and amplify the most extreme viewpoints on opposite sides of issues to get us fighting against each other. They didn’t create the fracture points but they’re very happy to exploit them.

    • @WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world
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      77 days ago

      Putin blames the West for the collapse of his beloved USSR. His primary motivator is to inflict the same punishment in any Western country

  • @itspatato@lemm.ee
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    207 days ago

    Russian PSYOP against the US has always been going on… However since Obama won … The GOP is allowing it to flourish…

    • prototact
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      77 days ago

      This has been done in Austria for example, where they utilized crime groups to infiltrate the secret service and stage a coup so now it’s controlled by Russian agents. So it’s not really a question, it’s should be more about the how not the if.

  • @iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    “Startling allegations that the Base’s leader is a Russian spy lead to suggestions that the Kremlin is playing the ‘long game”

    Kremlin already won the long game by inserting his doggy as the president of the united states

    • @thewedtdeservedit@lemmy.cafe
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      -27 days ago

      Russia is an american colony. America’s playing the long game. Remember when they sent Yeltsin to kill gorbatchev’s liberal USSR and then the eastern block starved for ten years?

      This is an Nth example of the west empowering dictators and then whine when they do fascist things. All that while their 501k is blooming thanks to lockhead martin

      • @iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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        37 days ago

        I mean I don’t know enough of Putin’s history to say how he came to power but Russia is definitely not America’s colony now that much I can say. It is a country waging a destabilisation war on western countries by playing a very dangerous game, that is enabling right wing extremists.

      • @ManixT@lemmy.world
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        -17 days ago

        Fuck the USSR and your interpretation of events.

        They are to blame for this. Not “the west”.

          • @ManixT@lemmy.world
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            16 days ago

            I’m aware of that 🙂

            The poster said that the west was in control of the USSR and made it fail and the eastern bloc was in shambles because of the west. Basically never taking responsibility for their actions and ignoring how awful the USSR was to countries and people who were forcibly taken over and into it’s control.

  • @sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca
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    56 days ago

    What amazes me is that Americans still talk about the Cold War like you haven’t lost it. And without a bullet fired.