Why is there support for Russia on the far right?

[Guno צְבִי]

America's far right shares a common enemy with Putin and Russia: the West's liberal values and the cabal of elites they say controls the economy and the media.

“It helped for Russian purposes to act like all of these other people agree with them,” Weiss said. “It was a way of creating an echo chamber where there isn’t one.”

Like Putin, former president Donald Trump who frequently professed his personal admiration for the Russian president and capitalized on the disdain for western liberal values among some conservatives, said Jared Holt, a fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab who researches extremism.

With Trump out of office, many of his supporters are now looking to Putin to take on their enemies, Holt said.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/r...-for-russia-on-america-s-far-right/ar-AAVweuL

 

[Guno צְבִי]

Unfounded claims to gin up support for the war – the US is funding bioweapon labs in Ukraine or crisis actors are faking events in the war – have gained traction on social media throughout the conflict, according to Zignal Labs, a software company that tracks and analyzes trends in online narratives.

The far right has echoed many of these claims. On his Telegram channel, Joseph Jordan, a white nationalist podcaster who goes by the name Eric Striker, claimed a pregnant woman injured in the bombing of a Ukrainian maternity hospital was an Instagram celebrity. QAnon-affiliated Twitter and Telegram accounts also spread the pro-Kremlin conspiracy theory which was quickly debunked.

 

[Matt Dillon]

That;s nice, honey. What are you trying to accomplish with this thread?

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Fascists love them some other fascists. Ditto for authoritarians. The QOP has devolved into a band of tyrant-worshipers who admire a brutal regime and a leader that poisons his opposition and/or locks them away for years under false convictions. In their unholy dreams, they see America doing the same thing... with the dead and the imprisoned being lefties, of course.

 

[Nordberg]

, Trump wanted the powers that Putin and Kim have. He wanted to be the king. His followers wanted him to be one too. Trump and his followers want the American experiment to end.