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In reply to the discussion: Can someone please give me names of some in the alt-left [View all]snooper2
(30,151 posts)Probably should make this an OP
How Putin Played the Far Left
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/13/how-putin-played-the-far-left.html
The Nations crop of Russia watchers have lately busied themselves by lending credence to the autonomy referendums in eastern Ukraine, thus legitimizing illegal and neo-imperialist land-grabs, or notions that the entire Ukrainian crisis was instigated by the Wests attempt
to smuggle [Ukraine] into NATO.
That these views bizarrely mesh with those of Trump and his Breitbart-friendly advisers is perhaps another oddity of an age of ideological psychosis. Stephen Cohen, The Nations lead Russia analyst (and husband of the magazines editor in chief and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel), has even been endorsed by David Duke and the wife of white-nationalist Richard Spencer, the intellectual godfather of the pro-Trump alt-right, as a rare voice of sanity when it comes to U.S.-Russian relations.
At times, the substance and style of what has been dubbed the alt-left are indistinguishable from that of its counterpart on the other end of the political spectrum. And Moscows info-warriors appear to appreciate the resemblance, as the American arm of Sputnik exhorted supporters of Bernie Sanders to vote for Trump (as did Trump himself, repeatedly).
In years of researching Kremlin influence-peddling, Ive discovered first-hand just how eerily similar far-left and far-right Putinists are to each other.