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Far-right AfD leader vows to campaign for Brexit-style EU exit vote in Germany
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2024
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How convenient...for Putin and others who want to divide Europe to make it easier to claim parts of it.
A significant proportion of the AfD’s supporters are explicitly Putinist. In the 90s, Germany gave citizenship to hundreds of thousands of Russian immigrants who had German ancestry (being descended from Volga Germans who migrated to Russia during Catherine the Great’s reign and subsequent waves). Most of these new Germans didn’t even speak German, let alone have any familiarity with post-1989 German democratic society. Nowadays they get their news from Russian state sources and form a far-right anti-liberal voting bloc that’s solidly AfD.
There’s a KGB strategy from 90s iirc that shows a plan of push to divide the UK from Europe, then the US from Europe, then Germany from Europe, then California from the US. I’ve got it downloaded somewhere
That'll never happen < looks around nervously >
You might be thinking of the 1997 book Foundations of Geopolitics by the Russian ultranationalist and neofascist Aleksandr Dugin.
There have been many reports over the years that it's popular amongst those close to Putin - and there are definitely comparisons to be drawn between the book and actually occurring events.
divide and conquer - Putin learned the lessons