Yes, Russia is Connected to Charlottesville

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By Quaid at Daily Kos

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/18/1691428/-Yes-Russia-is-Connected-to-Charlottesville

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Consider, for example, the chant that was caught on local television footage as it was shouted by several dozen torch-carrying protesters who rallied against removal of a Confederate monument in a Charlottesville, Va., park last Saturday. "Russia is our friend!" they shouted. "Russia is our friend!" What, many observers must have wondered, did Russia have to do with the Confederacy? www.chicagotribune.com/...

Russia Is Supporting White Nationalist Groups Here & in Europe
Russia wants the European Union and NATO to fall apart and for Europe and America to devolve into divided, hostile, nationalistic, identity countries. The EU, NATO, and American/European alliances are counterbalances to Russian power. The lack of unity and coherence in Europe would weaken it against Russia. Likewise, if the US is taken over by Nationalists who are anti-globalists, anti-EU, and anti-Nato, this weakens US global power and US power over Russia. Russia also wants to weaken the US by causing dissension, disunity, and chaos in the US. The more divided we are and the more distracted we are by the problems we have to attend to at home, the weaker we are against Russia and the Russian activities around the world. If the US and Europe are weakened globally, Russia can rise again in power.

The Alt-Right Rally Organizers in Charlottesville Have Open Ties to Putin
Richard Spencer was one of the main organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally. The rally was explicitly billed on posters as a “Pro-White movement rally.” Richard Spencer is a self-proclaimed Neo-Nazi. Spencer looks to Russia as the leader in the white power movement. He has called Russia the “sole white power in the world.” Spencer is married to a Russian writer and self-proclaimed “Kremlin troll leader.”

Richard Spencer is the founder of Alternative Right and the Radix Journal. Spencer has been on RT [Russia Today — Russian State Owned TV] as a commentator, and not a subject, a large number of times, usually talking about U.S. foreign policy. What they fail to mention is that Spencer is a leading white nationalist and has become the intellectual center of the “alt right” neo-fascist movement in America.


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[uponit7771]

1. I KNEW this tie would come up !! This is exactly what the Russians have done for years now

[dalton99a]

2. Putin has been bankrolling hate groups in Europe for years