You have to factor in: - Direct (& massive) party financing - Hacking ops - The work of RT, Sputnik - Bot armies and paid troll armies
Given the amount of financial & cyber support Putin provides to alt-right groups in western democracies: is the alt-right a Putin creation?
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Yours is a rhetorical question. What does USA fund and create though? It is not black/white or bad/good world. It's more yin and yang.
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Defo something I've oft wondered. The overlaps are striking, at least.
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Yes, for example Azov and other Nazi anti Russian groups in Ukraine are surely Putin's creation too.
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I consider the modern alt-Right to have been exploited by Putin, but not created by. I think it was Fox News, circa 1996.
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Don’t think ‘creation’ is fair but Putin is an excellent judo player: finding his point of maximum leverage and exploiting it…
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But only after a failed treaty with said Western fascist power.pic.twitter.com/kltC5lOHMX
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Much of it is, both directly and indirectly, driven by ru. They've been pushing anti-US conspiracies online for years aimed at these groups.
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