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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat May 29, 2021, 02:35 PM May 2021

Ted Cruz's Slap At 'Emasculated' U.S. Troops Traced To Hungarian Right-Wing [View all]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tweeted a Russian military video in a highly controversial message last week that has been traced by a propaganda expert to Hungary’s extreme right-wing.

It was also circulated among American white supremacists before Cruz took it mainstream a week after its birth, Alexander Reid Ross told Business Insider. Ross is a fellow at the British Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right who specializes in mapping the spread of far-right propaganda.

Cruz last week posted a video extolling Russia’s brutish he-man troops that was juxtaposed against a U.S. Army recruitment video featuring a woman.

“Holy crap,” snapped Cruz. “Perhaps a woke, emasculated military is not the best idea,” he tweeted in a pointed dig at American troops. He later tweeted that U.S. troops were at risk of becoming “pansies.”

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/ted-cruz-hungary-right-wing-emasculated-troops-041229479.html

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