Russia In The Real

 09.22.2022

First, fuck you, Putin. Your time's a'comin'. And again, thank you to Timothy Snyder for your immense research and truthful hard work.

In April 2015, Russian hackers took over the transmission of a French television station, pretended to be ISIS, and then broadcast material designed to terrorize France.

The aim was presumably to drive voters to the Far-Right National Front, a party financially supported by Russia. 

Russia impersonated a "cyber-caliphate" so that the French would fear terror more than they already did. After 130 people were killed and 368 injured in the November 2015 terrorist attack, the founder of a think tank close to the Kremlin rejoiced that the attack would drive Europe closer to Fascism and Russia. Both fake and real Islamic terrorism in western Europe, in other words, were thought to be in the interest of Russia.

In early 2016, Russia manufactured a moment of fake terror in Germany while bombing Syrian civilians and thus driving Muslim refugees to Europe. Russia exploited a family drama to instruct Germans that Muslims were rapists of children. The aim, again, seems to have been to destabilize a democratic system and promote the parties of the extreme right. 

The previous September, the German government had announced Russia would take half a million refugees from the war in Syria. Russia then began a bombing campaign in Syria that targeted civilians. Having provided the refugees,  Russia then supplied the narrative. 

So. Knowing the above, are you STILL a trump supporter? The leader of Russia, North Korea, both his brethren, both terrorists and chock full o' greed and could give a damn about killing whomever to meet their needs? A former president needs to go the fuck away. Now. His supporters need a tent city on a plot of land where they can run wild & free. With a wall to contain them, of course. 

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