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SunSeeker

(51,378 posts)
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 02:40 PM Jan 2017

How Putin Played the Far Left

Last edited Fri Jan 13, 2017, 04:39 PM - Edit history (1)

The Kremlin didn’t just rely on the alt-right to help Trump win. Bernie Bros, Greens, and ‘anti-imperialists’ got had, too.
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Perhaps the starkest case in point is Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and her constituency. In December 2015, the Kremlin feted Stein by inviting her to the gala celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Kremlin-funded propaganda network RT. Over a year later, it remains unclear who paid for Stein’s trip to Moscow and her accommodations there. Her campaign ignored multiple questions on this score. We do know, however, that Stein sat at the same table as both Putin and Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, Trump’s soon-to-be national security adviser. She further spoke at an RT-sponsored panel, using her presence to criticize the U.S.’s “disastrous militarism.” Afterward, straddling Moscow’s Red Square, Stein described the panel as “inspiring,” going on to claim that Putin, whom she painted as a political novice, told her he “agree[d]” with her “on many issues.”

Stein presents herself as a champion of the underclass and the environment, and an opponent of the surveillance state and corporate media, and yet she seemed to take pleasure in her marriage of true minds with a kleptocratic intelligence officer who levels forests and arrests or kills critical journalists and invades foreign countries. Their true commonality, of course, is that both Putin and Stein are dogged opponents of U.S. foreign policy.

Indeed, her pro-Kremlin stance wasn’t limited to merely praising Putin’s amicability. Stein joined the Russian president and Kazakhstani dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev in describing Ukraine’s 2014 EuroMaidan revolution as a “coup,” and claimed, bizarrely, that NATO is currently “fighting… enemies we invent to give the weapons industry a reason to sell more stuff.”

For good measure, she also asserted in September that “Russia used to own Ukraine,” by way of defending its colonization. She even selected a vice-presidential candidate who, when asked whether the downing of Flight MH17—a massacre almost certainly caused by Russian-supplied separatists in eastern Ukraine—was a false flag, responded, “[T]hat’s exactly what has happened.”

Green Party officials across Europe slammed a “delusional” Stein for her views, with leading Russian environmental activists saying they were “deeply shocked” by her comments during her Moscow trip.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/13/how-putin-played-the-far-left.html
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liberalnarb

(4,532 posts)
3. If you could stop using the term "Bernie bro" maybe I would find you easier to agree with.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 03:08 PM
Jan 2017

The primaries are long over and you're still using a slanderous ad hominem attack against Sanders supporters.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
7. No, the article that quote is from aside from that stupid label-my friends who were
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 03:25 PM
Jan 2017

Self described Berners were all going on and on about Wikileaks and Guccifer and hoping Hillary would be arrested before the convention. None of them could ever explain for what. One is digging in their heels and thinks America is getting what they deserve. The other is too embarrassed to discuss it.

I've never seen anyone here own up to being manipulated although it's pretty obvious they were.

SunSeeker

(51,378 posts)
10. I am only quoting the article. I now edited to add excerpt shading to make that clear.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 04:45 PM
Jan 2017

The Berniebro line is actually a sub-headline, which you can see if you click on the Daily Beast link.

So what is your take on the article?

 

baldguy

(36,649 posts)
11. Anyone who fell for Russias attack's on Clinton should be ashamed of themselves.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 10:19 PM
Jan 2017

Especially those who claim to be liberals and progressives.

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