“To Azerbaijanis, the war was in fact a victory to be proud of: Their country finally regained control of most of the territory it lost in the first war between the two sides in the 1990s, as a result of which more than 600,000 ethnic Azerbaijanis were ethnically cleansed.”
Medea Benjamin attended the New Horizons conference in Iran, one of the world's foremost gatherings of fascists, conspiracy theorists and propagandists which has featured the likes of David Duke and Anthony Hall.
2/11 Predrag Petrovic from BCBP said that in the last couple of years, some extremists had now added an anti-migrant narrative that did not exist before. Petrovic said that, besides the direct consequences of this to migrants, anti-migrant opinion in the broader population had expanded.
Mussolini in 1945 saying, "I see the salvation of Europe only in a socialist union of all the European States." He means a "national socialist" axis. Precisely the same rhetorical trick is used by pro-Kremlin fascists wrt "multipolarism" today./
8/21 Speaking of Dugin, he announced Russia’s goals for the Balkans: “The turn of Serbia in the Russian geopolitical agenda of Slavic revival will come & you will see when we formulate the goal concerning the Balkans. We should finish what we have started…”
7/12 2/6 I show how the modern usage of Russophobia dates to a bigoted 1982 samizdat essay by Igor Shafarevich, who blamed Jewish intellectuals for the spread of Russophobic stereotypes that treated Russian history as a continuum of despotism from Ivan the Terrible to Stalin & beyond.
7/12 PM @DritanAbazovic's despicable speech in Srebrenica today ("the genocide...was not committed against Bosniaks but against people") is only the most explicit articulation of a yrs long attempt by some in Europe to depoliticize the Bosnian Genocide. 🧵
“These hateful far-right platforms are closely linked to each other, as well as to the Russian government. Leonid Savin, the chief editor of Geopolitica.ru, is formerly Katehon’s chief editor and is reportedly a member of the Military-Scientific Society of the Russian Ministry of Defense. ”
“This problem – if I am not mistaken, both in America and Western Europe – is the domination of public life by progressive liberals. The problem is the fact that they hold the most important positions in the most important institutions, that they occupy the dominant positions in the media,〜
speakers will include〜Nigel Farage, Herbert Kickl, head of Austrian Freedom party, and Santiago Abascal, president of Spain’s Vox party./about a thousand security agency-related Russians that are in Hungary right now. And to put that in perspective, they have 170 diplomats in Washington,”