US Extremists Have Picked a Side in Ukraine: 'Lol Putin Is Brilliant'

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Tess Owen
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For years, Russia has been quietly supporting neo-fascist movements and churning out ethnonationalist propaganda that's influenced far-right extremists around the world.

Now, that's paying off: the U.S. far-right has picked their side.

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US Extremists Have Picked a Side in Ukraine: ‘Lol Putin Is Brilliant’
Far-right personalities have declared Russia a beacon of anti-wokeness and Putin a strong ethnonationalist.
12:08 PM · Feb 25, 2022

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxd7zn/us-extremists-putin-nicholas-fuentes

White nationalist livestreamer Nicholas Fuentes has made no secret of where his loyalties lie in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

“I wish Putin was president of America,” he mused to his 45,000 subscribers on Telegram on Wednesday morning.

Fifteen hours later, Russian forces invaded Ukraine. And Fuentes, who’s hosting a far-right conference in Florida Friday night, was psyched.

“I am totally rooting for Russia,” he wrote the following morning. “This is the coolest thing to happen since 1/6.”

“UKRAINE WILL BE DESTROYED", added Fuentes, who describes himself as a “Christian nationalist,” someone who thinks the U.S. is a fundamentally Christian nation. “I never doubted you [Putin], my Czar."

Over on the Gab platform, its CEO Andrew Torba also expressed his support for Putin.

“Lol Putin is brilliant. Western Media, which is obsessed with ‘muh Nazis’ will have a tough time spinning this one,” wrote Torba, who’s sponsoring Fuentes’ conference, the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC), this weekend. “What he really means is Ukraine needs to be liberated and cleansed from the degeneracy of the secular western globalist empire.”

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[TheRealNorth]

1. "Cleansed from the degeneracy ..."

Yup, sounds like a Nazi to me. Something I would have expected to come from Joseph Goebbels.

[ificandream]

2. You can thank the Faked news channel for that.

[Bayard]

3. Repulsive

[ck4829]

4. Disgusting.

[Johonny]

5. The same people that told me Covid was no worse than the flu

Now telling me the war in the Ukraine is not that big a thing. If anything, they're consistent.

[lindysalsagal]

6. The morons think russians are free, elections are fair and it's a land of laws like ours

Let's send them there for a while.