Fascists Are Attempting to Win Followers by Rebranding as Antiwar

[Nevilledog]

https://truthout.org/articles/fascists-are-attempting-to-win-followers-by-rebranding-as-antiwar/

The idea of a political coalition that mixes self-identified communists with neo-Nazis may seem implausible at first. However, a February 19 rally in Washington, D.C., branded as an effort to “Rage Against the War Machine,” brought together dissident parts of the left and the right into common opposition to the U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) role in Russia’s war on Ukraine.

“It’s a beautiful thing to see so many people from so many different walks of life unite today to come out and say: It’s time for Washington to stop prolonging this war in Ukraine,” said Wyatt Reed, a reporter for the Russia-backed outlet Sputnik, before an applauding crowd.

The coalition included a strange assortment of libertarians, journalists, party-switching politicians and former presidential candidates.

Arun Gupta, a journalist who attended the rally, said the event ended up being different than it was branded. “It was not an antiwar rally because it was pretty clear that it was generally a pro-Russian bent,” Gupta told Truthout.

For those at the rally claiming the banner of the left, the greatest evil is the U.S. war machine. Some argued that supporting U.S. adversaries, even if they are far right authoritarians like Russian President Vladimir Putin, is strategically important to defeat the leading imperialist state. The far right participants claimed U.S. and European Union hegemony exports multiculturalism, liberalism and “wokeness,” thus painting over ethnic, racial, and cultural differences and foiling countries like Russia, who they say are upholding “traditional values” like homophobia, transphobia and patriarchal dominance.

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[jmbar2]

1. I'm rebranding them as "Pro-fa"

[TheRealNorth]

2. Only because they see Russia as "one of them."

They have no issue going to war with Liberals. They are the modern version of the German-American Bund.

[Chainfire]

3. I don't think that they are anti-war, just anti-Democracy.

They have been fattened on a such a diet of lies that they believe that Fascism would make for a better life. They want a god-like figure to take care of them. If they got what they they think they want, they would be among the first to suffer the consequences. I think that is funny, believing that the very first thing a Fascist government would do is disarm the population.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. Russia is white. Very white. Very Russian Evangelical aka Orthodox...connected the dots!

[jimfields33]

5. Ukraine is as well.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

11. And so prized by the White Russians and the White West, it's an All White War.

It’s a a white versus White War, makes it all so much worse than any other kind, I believe most in the West find that most horrific of all.

[Trenzalore]

12. It is racism, pure and simply racism

They have come to the realization that the society has a future where it will not be dominated by the world view of middle aged white males and they are reacting.

[Hekate]

6. This appeals to all the isolationists, always has

[Initech]

7. I'm pro war if there's a damn megalomaniac with nuclear weapons trying to take over the world!

Fuck Vladimir Putin!

[LostOne4Ever]

8. So they are supporting Putin

…WHO STARTED THE F**KING WAR IN THR FIRST PLACE!!!

These are not anti war activists they are Russian agents, Fascists, and complete morons!

[MayReasonRule]

9. Which Is Why... Fascism Is Not To Be Debated, It Is To Be Smashed!!

[Hortensis]

10. Nazi sympathizers here were aggressively isolationist in the 1930s-40s.

America was already a world power, and Germany's success in taking over Europe depended on America not entering the war as nation after nation fell to Germany. As we did. It almost worked -- the UK was essentially fighting alone by the time Japan attacked.

And for the first couple of years communist Russia and Nazi Germany were allies, creating significant far-left support here, though the earlier purging of socialists from power and from Hitler's National Socialist Party had dimmed support for that. But -- far left and far right support for isolationism with lots of high-flown anti-war rhetoric from both.

History often rhymes.