The far right coup attempts, in USA, Brazil and Germany are all hot housed in the Kremlin; It is time this interference be called an act of war
One by one the Far right as orchestrated by Vladimir Putin and the Russian global influence Mafia has been making its presence felt. It is time to call this interference what it is, an act of war upon humanity itself by the Kremlin
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Supporters of Brazil's far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded and defaced the country's Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court on Sunday, in a grim echo of the U.S. Capitol invasion two years ago by fans of former President Donald Trump.
There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries from their rampage, but the invaders left a trail of destruction, throwing furniture through the smashed windows of the presidential palace, flooding parts of Congress with a sprinkler system and ransacking ceremonial rooms in the Supreme Court.
The uprising, which lasted a little over three hours, underlined the severe polarization that still grips the country days after the inauguration of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who defeated Bolsonaro in the October election.
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DEFININITELY hot housed by the Kremlin. Count on it
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German police arrested dozens associated with the far-right Reichsbürger movement on suspicion of?plotting a coup . The large-scale raids were a muscular response in a country that has been accused of being slow to root out right-wing extremism.
But that doesn’t solve Germany’s problem with that phenomenon, our?new data ?on intelligence agencies and political parties reveals.
What is the Reichsbürger and what are their goals?
The Reichsbürger (“citizens of the Reich”) is a loosely organized group consisting of far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists who do not accept that the German Reich ended in 1945 and therefore do not consider the Federal Republic of Germany?legitimate .
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While Mc Carthy and the Freedom Caucus have outed themselves as Kremlin assets, probably with the assistance of Duma / SVR "assistants" , the Russian mobilization of 2023 of 500,000+ recruits primarily from Moscow and Saint Petersburg is the same drick which the Post Czar non Communist government did in 2017
Likely revolution in Russia in spite of Mc Carthy, and the Freedom caucus acting as Russian assets
It's a mixture of idiot Russian priorities mixed in with the Freedom Caucus acting on behalf of Putin to ensure Kremlin victory
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All these three far right influence operations need to be called what they are. Acts of war upon humanity itself orchestrated by the Kremlin
Its time to know your enemy. The enemy is in America with the Freedom Caucus using whataboutism to defend Putin., The enemy is in Brazil trying to reduplicate a Brazilian redux of the January 6 attack upon Brazilian democracy. The enemy is in Germany doing everything it can to topple the German government and replace it with Quisling style stooges acting like trained seals for the SVR orders being made up in the Kremlin
We need to call a spade a spade. Step on it. Humanity is directly threatened by these operations. To defeat them is defending the existence of humanity itself
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Bolsonaro backers ransack Brazil presidential palace, Congress, Supreme Court
BRASILIA, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Supporters of Brazil's far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded and defaced the country's Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court on Sunday, in a grim echo of the U.S. Capitol invasion two years ago by fans of former President Donald Trump.
There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries from their rampage, but the invaders left a trail of destruction, throwing furniture through the smashed windows of the presidential palace, flooding parts of Congress with a sprinkler system and ransacking ceremonial rooms in the Supreme Court.
The sight of thousands of yellow-and-green clad protesters running riot in the capital capped months of tension following the Oct. 30 presidential vote.
The uprising, which lasted a little over three hours, underlined the severe polarization that still grips the country days after the inauguration of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who defeated Bolsonaro in the October election.
"These vandals, who we could call ... fanatical fascists, did what has never been done in the history of this country," said Lula in a press conference during an official trip to Sao Paulo state. "All these people who did this will be found and they will be punished."
Lula, who announced a federal security intervention in Brasilia lasting until Jan. 31 after capital security forces were initially overwhelmed by the invaders, blamed Bolsonaro for inflaming his supporters after a campaign of baseless allegations about potential election fraud.
The president's allies also raised questions about how public security forces in the capital Brasilia were so unprepared and easily overwhelmed by rioters who had been planning on social media for days to gather for weekend demonstrations.
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Germany foiled a far-right coup attempt. It still has a right-wing problem.
The German government hasn’t taken its increasing right-wing extremism as seriously as left-wing extremism. That’s been true for decades, our research finds.
Analysis by?Jeyhun Alizade ,?
Rafaela Dancygier ?and?
December 13, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EST
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Last week, German police arrested dozens associated with the far-right Reichsbürger movement on suspicion of?plotting a coup . The large-scale raids were a muscular response in a country that has been accused of being slow to root out right-wing extremism.
But that doesn’t solve Germany’s problem with that phenomenon, our?new data ?on intelligence agencies and political parties reveals.
What is the Reichsbürger and what are their goals?
The Reichsbürger (“citizens of the Reich”) is a loosely organized group consisting of far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists who do not accept that the German Reich ended in 1945 and therefore do not consider the Federal Republic of Germany?legitimate .
The idea that a band of conspiracy theorists and far-right revisionists might overthrow the government and restore the German monarchy may seem preposterous. But although a successful coup was unlikely, the episode nevertheless reveals the threats that far-right extremists pose in Germany today.
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Reichsbürger followers are heavily armed, with ties to the?military and law enforcement . They are also linked to the far-right Alternative für Deutschland,?a party with seats in the federal parliament ?and in nearly all state parliaments. Given this, the group could have attacked the Bundestag, much as the U.S. Capitol was attacked on?Jan. 6 , 2021.
German state and federal intelligence agencies have paid attention to the Reichsbürger, as we’ve found in our research, which we’ll detail below. Between 2015 and 2019, occurrences of the term Reichsbürger has increased sevenfold in these agencies’ public reports.
How serious is the far-right threat, and what is Germany doing to counter it?
Does this attention mean Germany is committed to fighting right-wing extremism?
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Germany does more ?to fight homegrown right-wing extremism than does the United States, researching and funding such efforts in intelligence agencies, law enforcement, schools and civic organizations. Still, this may say more about the tepid U.S. response than about Germany’s dedication.
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To be sure, over the past two years, the German government?enhanced measures ?to respond to right-wing extremism. These call for increased funding for anti-extremism programs in a wider range of government institutions and nonprofit organizations.
Critics ?see this as long overdue. In 2019, Germany recorded more than 15 times as many far-right attacks as it had in 1990 (21,290 vs 1,380), according to intelligence agency figures. And they continue to increase. These attacks are as varied as “propaganda crimes” — such as the display of swastikas and raising the Hitler salute — and physical assaults and murders motivated by racism, antisemitism and antagonism toward Muslims.
For decades, Germany focused on left-wing extremism
Why has Germany missed this increase? One reason is?historical . In the?postwar years , the German government did not remove former Nazis from its institutions, including from intelligence and law enforcement agencies. During the first decades of the Cold War, the government focused on the battle against communism and on high-profile attacks by left-wing militants such as the?Baader-Meinhof group ?and the?2 June Movement . That focus on left-wing extremism lingered, even as far-right terrorist movements?grew and became radicalized .
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But in the 2000s, a number of far-right attacks revealed egregious intelligence failures, suggesting that Germany wasn’t doing enough to combat right-wing extremism. For instance, a murderous gang of three calling itself the “Nationalist Socialist Underground”?assassinated? nine immigrants and a police officer from 2000 to 2007.
Such attacks have increased in the past few years, including:?a synagogue ?shooting in the eastern city of Halle; 11 people — mostly with immigrant roots —?slain ?near Frankfurt;?a pro-immigrant politician ?assassinated; and far-right extremists discovered operating within the?military , the?police force? and other?security services .
Does Germany have a problem tackling far-right extremism?
A German saying, “The state is blind in the right eye,” suggests some doubt about whether Germany takes far-right extremism seriously. This criticism dates to the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler, but the German government and society have transformed massively since then. Is it still fair to say that politicians, intelligence agencies and the police systematically downplay right-wing extremism?
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To find out,?we analyzed ?thousands of intelligence reports, parliamentary speeches, and police publications, going back as far as 1949 and covering the federal level and Germany’s 16 states. We compared Germany’s approaches to right-wing and left-wing extremism.
We find that even though right-wing-extremist crimes have far exceeded left-wing ones for decades, most political parties consistently minimize threats from the right — especially among center-right parties. Center-left parties are more varied and sometimes discount left-wing extremism.
In other words, political parties behave in partisan ways, even when it comes to threats to public safety and the democratic order.
But we also found that government institutions that are supposed to be politically neutral, such as the intelligence services, downplay far-right extremism. When intelligence agencies operate under center-right rather than center-left interior ministers, their public reports devote less attention to right-wing extremists and are more likely to treat their actions as less threatening. These reports let the German public know what groups endorse political extremism. When intelligence agencies do not properly communicate the nature of such threats to citizens, extremism can more easily spread.
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We uncover similar ideological biases in law enforcement publications.
The response to the Reichsbürger doesn’t tell us much about Germany’s fight against right-wing extremism
Our research indicates that politicians — especially center-right politicians — and the agencies they direct have not adequately alerted citizens to the far-right threat. One might be tempted to speculate that the center-left Social Democrat-led government’s efforts to crush the Reichsbürger shows a new seriousness about the far right. But the Reichsbürger’s target was the government itself, so the strong response is not surprising.
Rooting out a plot to restore imperial Germany does not mean the government will do the same to counter threats targeting ethnic and religious minorities.
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Jeyhun Alizade ?is a PhD candidate in politics at Princeton University.
Rafaela Dancygier ?(@rdancygier) is a professor of politics and public and international affairs, the director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at?Princeton University ?and the author of, most recently, “Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics ” (Princeton University Press, 2017).
Jonathan Homola ?(@j_homola) is an assistant professor of political science at Rice University.
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Fiasco in the making. Pushing for a 1917 style revolution in Russia by dragooning 500,000+ recruits; just when GOP is demanding Pentagon cuts
Editor at JHEPGC, Associate Editor in Galaxies, and Visiting Professor in Chongqing University
January 9, 2023
While Mc Carthy and the Freedom Caucus have outed themselves as Kremlin assets, probably with the assistance of Duma / SVR "assistants" , the Russian mobilization of 2023 of 500,000+ recruits primarily from Moscow and Saint Petersburg is the same drick which the Post Czar non Communist government did in 2017
Likely revolution in Russia in spite of Mc Carthy, and the Freedom caucus acting as Russian assets
It's a mixture of idiot Russian priorities mixed in with the Freedom Caucus acting on behalf of Putin to ensure Kremlin victory
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“The combat effectiveness and morale of the [Russian] army [in Ukraine] is strongly reminiscent of the same before the July 1917 offensive of [Alexander] Kerensky,” Strelkov said.
Kerensky reportedly served as Russian provisional government chief following the removal of the last tsar Nicholas II. He insisted on an ill-advised counter-offensive with disastrous results.
The decision triggered a mutiny among the troops, resuling the death of thousands of soldiers and the end of the offensive, the?Daily Mail?noted.
Strelkov lambasted Putin’s top commanders for pushing a counteroffensive aimed at catching Ukraine and NATO supporters off guard while they remained vigilant.
This “clearly demonstrates the general level of brainlessness of our top generals,” Strelkov said.
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This is totally idiotic
But there is more, McCarthy is hell bent on making Putin win his new offensive by default
One of the biggest questions surrounding the deal will be its potential impact on U.S. aid to Ukraine. Several of the Republican holdouts, including Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), have strongly opposed the assistance, and McCarthy himself famously quipped late last year that American help should not amount to a “blank check.”
Regardless of the outcome, the proposed deal highlights a significant shift in Republican politics that has taken place in recent years. As Bill Hartung of the Quincy Institute told RS, GOP lawmakers often “gave the Pentagon a pass when they talked about curbing ‘big government,’” but many Freedom Caucus members now seem determined to cut the military down to size.
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THIS IS FALSE. MC CARTHY IS DOING EVERYTHING HE CAN TO INSURE PUTIN VICTORY IN SPRING 2023
Once again
It's a mixture of idiot Russian priorities mixed in with the Freedom Caucus acting on behalf of Putin to ensure Kremlin victory
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