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Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Elon Musk is under fire after publicly backing a far-right political party in Germany, suggesting the current government should not be re-elected over its position on the current migrant crisis in Europe.

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[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Russia, China and the Republicans have been propping European far right parties for the past x decades, and now the recessions and the wars are generating easy support for the populists

[-] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

USA, Ukraine, Israel, Italy and certain NATO countries have been propping up far right culture across the world. Russia and China are just boogeymen for useful idiots to scream about.

Far right factions in USA support Russia only because of the anti-LGBT social alignment, and not because Russia's politics is far right. Russia is pretty much in alignment with socialist goals geopolitically and inside their country on the social axis (ban on Nazi elements).

[-] tomatopathe@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Lol @ "ban on Nazis"

Russia doesn't care about Nazis.

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[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Italy and Ukraine are on the receiving side of the propping. Israel is a good mention but probably a lesser participant than the big three (the US does most of the dirty work for them).

In addition to supporting culturally reactionary and discriminatory governments, the far right fawns over the totalitarian strong-man geopolitics.

And as it is known, it's convenient for Russia to build fascist-aligned support in their targets to have a casus belli for their internal audience. All while following fascist doctrines themselves

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