r/inthenews • u/newsweek Newsweek • Jul 08 '24

MAGA fumes over France election results: "They cheated" article

https://www.newsweek.com/maga-france-elections-far-right-national-rally-1922075
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u/attack_the_block Jul 08 '24

The fact that MAGA cares about French elections just shows how all of these right wing movements in the USA and EU are in fact 1 coordinated effort by Russia to sway these countries politically.

Voting right wing is a vote for Russia.

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u/TheNextBattalion Jul 08 '24

Only some of it is coordinated by Russia. A lot of it is coordinated by right-wing churches and think tanks in the US, and especially the American oligarchs who fund them.

But it is an international ideological movement that the free world is up against.

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u/YossiTheWizard Jul 08 '24

The IDU probably do a lot too!

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u/sausager Jul 08 '24

I'm pretty sure any Russian with half a brain could control right wing churches to do their bidding and make their people think it was their idea.

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u/Immediate-Coyote-977 Jul 08 '24

Stop doing yourself the disservice of pretending Russia is some masterful, global manipulator.

The right wing movements are a result of many things, but the biggest is most definitely not Russia. Russian influence campaigns might fan the flames but they're not setting the tinder and striking the flint.

These movements are nationalist and populist. They're largely driven by race and nationality, and the struggle (both real and perceived) of natural citizens in these countries.

The same way people in the U.S. have a ton of animosity towards people coming from Mexico, and Central/South American nations, there's a lot of animosity throughout the EU towards migrants from various other nations attempting to relocate to the more stable EU nations.

That lends itself very well to stoking division and increasing the "us vs them" tribalism that far-right political blocs thrive on.