There are two parts to the European far right. One is the so-called “populist” right (a purposely misleading label, as their “populism” is just a mask for neoliberal and pro-corporate economic policies like tax cuts for the rich), which tends to be pro-Russia in most European countries because of their shared anti-liberal, socially conservative views (though not always… in Poland for instance the right wing is just as Russophobic as the liberal centrists are).

The other are the outright Neonazis who have ties to Ukraine’s Neonazi scene and who are anti-Russian because they view the Russians as Asiatic non-Europeans and a threat to their vision of a racially pure Europe. The Ukrainian Neonazi movement has been busy over the past ten years building up connections with their counterparts in the rest of Europe, trafficking weapons and organizing para-military training camps.

They have had substantial resources to establish their networks in Europe thanks to state backing by the Kiev regime, and European governments have tolerated and turned a blind eye to these groups and their activities because of their usefulness against the Russians.

This latter group, from what i can tell, has never had a hugely positive view of Trump (in part also because of his ties to Jewish oligarchs) - though they of course welcomed his normalization of xenophobia and racism - and now if Trump ends up ditching the Ukraine project they may even turn outright hostile toward him.

I think unfortunately that both of these parts of the European right will be strengthened as a result of the Ukraine conflict. The first because it will have been validated in their skepticism toward the Ukraine project, and the second because there will be huge resentment in the Neonazi ranks over what they will perceive as the West’s betrayal of their cause.

And that second group is especially concerning, as with the end of the war we will suddenly have a large number of hardcore ideological Nazis, with ample combat experience and severe PTSD, flood into Europe as Ukraine is either taken over by the Russians or is left as an economically devastated rump state where they will be unable to find jobs after the war.

Not to mention that the black market for all kinds of very dangerous weapons, which has already been thriving thanks to the monumental levels of corruption in Ukraine, will become an order of magnitude worse as tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers with no economic prospects and no war to fight anymore try to sell whatever they have left to whoever will buy it. In practice that means organized crime and militant Neonazi networks (these two often have significant overlap in Eastern Europe btw).

I agree. I think this take gives them altogether too much credit. We’ll see what happens, but for now my gut instinct is to think that the extent to which the Trump administration is actually embracing “realism” is being overestimated by many commentators. A tiger doesn’t change its stripes…not this quickly.

Still…some very interesting things are happening, and we see the US is at least trying to adapt to changing realities…Europe is still hopelessly delusional and will get left further and further behind by every other major player.

I didn’t imply they were. But the least someone can do is listen to both sides. Especially when we’ve been hearing the West’s narrative on repeat from every single mainstream media outlet for the last ten years, and always it turns out that it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

Another good documentary on the subject: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JM0VYkL_UI4

And of course Oliver Stone’s “Ukraine on Fire” if you want to understand where this all started.

As opposed to the totally trustworthy documentaries funded by the Nazi regime in Kiev and the CIA cutouts NED/USAID?

I agree with these people on all kinds of things, but what do they want me to do?

I don’t think it matters what these people want you to do. We shouldn’t be letting media people tell us what we should do anyway, even if they were all communists, they aren’t political organizers, at best they are propagandists and information sources for our cause. We are communists and we have to decide what we should do based on our own world outlook and our own theoretical framework. You should just see these media personalities as simply one more asset to help you in educating, agitating and organizing the working class.

That’s why i personally don’t care whether the forms of activism that they engage in are ineffectual or misguided, because i don’t take my cues from them.

See all of that just sounds to me like you think they are controlled opposition because you disagree with some of their views and tactics. I don’t know this Kiriakou person but i will admit he sounds like a bit of a grifter. The rest of them i just think are not communists, that’s all. And because they are not they will do or say things and associate with people that we don’t like or agree with.

As for alleged scandals, a huge disclaimer that i have not looked into any of those allegations so they may very well be true, but a priori i always tend to be skeptical of when anti-establishment figures suddenly become embroiled in all sorts of allegations, as the intelligence agencies are known for planting dirt on people, creating infighting and discrediting people who pose a threat to the imperialist state.

I think it’s good to be cautious and skeptical, but maybe we shouldn’t let that turn into all out paranoia that makes us see ops in every corner, because that only benefits our enemies. Sometimes even people who are not communists can be useful, as sources of information, as situational allies on certain anti-imperialist causes, etc.

Maybe. And i’m open to evidence to back that theory up, but for the time being i personally don’t believe it. I think that’s too convoluted an explanation when a much simpler one fits perfectly well. We shouldn’t ascribe more subtlety or intelligence to the ruling class than they actually have. Most of these people are not evil geniuses, they are just evil…and some of them are really not that bright at all.

Sometimes the only reason why they do things is the straightforwardly obvious one: they are desperately trying to reassert control in a situation in which they fear they are losing it, when they feel everything is spiraling out of control for them and they just don’t care anymore about being subtle.

And sometimes it turns out that they can get away with it, which then emboldens them to go even further next time, but sometimes they can’t, and they find out that they have underestimated the level of pushback they will actually get. It’s the same phenomenon of arrogance and belief in their own omnipotence that we see the imperialists display over and over. But whether they succeed or not in this or that individual case is not very relevant, because the intimidation still occurs either way.

Intimidation. And it works. Not many people have the public support that these bigger journalists do to be able to pressure the government to release them. So the whole thing has a chilling effect on anti-hegemonic, anti-imperialist speech in the West because the average person is scared to be the next target of the state and suddenly having the police at their door or being abducted off the street into a van under some trumped up charge. They are doing exactly what they have always accused their geopolitical enemies of doing.

The western (socdem/demsoc) left summarized:

And no mainstream media publication is going to say a word about this. They are not going to accuse Austria of suppressing free speech by targeting journalists (as they 100% would if this happened in a country like Russia or China), they are not going to call them authoritarian, repressive, dictatorship or totalitarian. There will simply be crickets, or if they do write anything it will be to take the side of the state and pile on to the slander against Richard calling him a terrorist or terrorist sympathizer.

As we have seen with the whole USAID saga now, there is no such thing as “independent media” in the West, at least not in the mainstream. They are all funded by Zionist billionaires, tech oligarchs, government agencies and shady NGOs. And the German language media are some of the worst in the world…the shit i have to read and hear every day from them makes me wish i didn’t speak German.

It’s DKP, not KPD. KPD was banned during the cold war.

Unfortunately DKP will not be on the ballot this time . I voted for them last election but this time the only communist parties on the ballot are going to be MLPD and SGP, both not particularly great choices and sort of a waste of a vote.

Might just have to go with Linke as the least bad option. Although i hate how much they’ve been capitulating to the establishment on the Ukraine issue (and Palestine, but that’s a given in German politics). BSW is better on the war and they’re more anti-establishment but they have a lot of other problematic rhetoric that really kind of puts me off. And BSW is probably going to do better in the elections than Die Linke.

Bottom line, there are no really good electoral choices if you’re an anti-imperialist in Germany right now. I guess BSW is the closest thing (on the ballot) to an actual anti-war party, but it’s hard to ignore their dumb as shit stances on some of the cultural issues…

All i know is Merz is a fucking psycho and unfortunately it looks like he’s going to be the next chancellor, and worse still, he’s probably going to get there by bringing those lunatic Greens into a coalition who are going to push him even harder to escalate to insane levels of warmongering against Russia.

And CDU absolutely will capitulate to the AfD on immigration. And they will ramp up the neoliberalism even more. And the Greens will make sure that the coalition government will be totally subservient to the US on every geopolitical issue. Basically we’re headed for the absolute worst case scenario here in Germany, there’s just no other way of putting it.

The only ray of hope i have is looking forward to how much all of these sick freaks will lose their shit when Russia wins in Ukraine, which at this point is only a matter of time.

The ultimate “both sides”-er.

The diaspora nationalists outside of Ukraine can afford to be keyboard warriors from the safety of not having to worry about the TCC thugs coming to forcibly draft them. That is until European governments decide to start to deport them back because Kiev is running out of cannon fodder. Then they will have a rude awakening.

Western liberals just don’t care and are never going to care about Ukrainians dying so long as their fantasies of seeing dead Russians keep getting fulfilled. Until the missiles start raining down on them…

The media are starting to admit to the reality but even this article is still trying to cushion the blow somewhat, to rosify the picture at least a little bit. Reality unfortunately is even bleaker, which is that if it weren’t for the literal Nazi torture and murder gangs that the Kiev regime uses to keep people in line and force them to fight, and the repressive police apparatus arresting or just disappearing people for online posts containing anything that they can construe as “treason”, no one but the most diehard Nazis would be fighting anymore.

And this machinery of the regime and all its thugs are only being kept afloat by the ungodly amounts of money that the US and Europe pour in daily. If that tap gets turned off the whole house of cards collapses.

This conflict was never existential for Ukrainians, it was never the fight of the average Ukrainian, and even though the West managed, through the Ukrainian media which they completely control and whose funding they are virtually 100% responsible for (as we saw by how quickly all of the Kiev regime media suddenly started begging when the USAID money was put on pause by Trump) to fool a lot of Ukrainians into losing their lives for nothing, by now i think most Ukrainians have realized that they have been played. Only the most diehard Ukronazi true believers still cling to the delusion of “total victory”.

But sadly the Ukrainians are now stuck in the prison that the West has turned their country into, and it’s only Russia that can break down the walls of this prison. They will do this by decisively defeating NATO’s Ukrainian proxy army.