A new report from NATO is following a narrative trend which began in the US and has since spread across Western Europe, accusing Russia of being to blame for the rise of populism worldwide, as an effort to undermine NATO and the European Union.
This report blames Russia for the election of Donald Trump in November, as well as last summer’s Brexit vote, in which Britain decided to withdraw from the European Union. It goes on to blame them for growing anti-EU movements in several other union nations, and for improving polling numbers in Germany and France for Euroskeptic parties.
This fits into the hysteria surrounding “fake news” in recent months, with the idea that Russia is to blame for the rise in alternative media outlets which are not as supportive of the idea of globalism. The “anti-globalism” idea positioned the defeat of Hillary Clinton in the US election as the fall of Western liberalism, putative a long-standing Russian priority.
This is already being set up to blame Russia every time a national election anywhere in the West doesn’t go the way of the center-left parties, with French and German officials already complaining about the idea well ahead of their elections just because polls are showing them not doing as well as they’d like to see.
Experts, of course, will note the rise of Euroskepticism across EU nations is largely concurrent with serious policy disputes within the EU itself, and that a simpler explanation than a far-reaching Russian plot is simply that many EU citizens don’t see the union as the panacea it was initially sold to them as.
Oh sure, because Europe and NATO are the center of the world. I guess they must not get US news over there, because the corrupt media in the US knows that Russia is all about hacking the US.
Anton Malan
The Bible teach us that for the truth you can do a lot, how ever against the truth you can do nothing. Russia and Putin are the truth. So NATO against the truth you can do nothing a
Most off the boers wars was started in South Africa by the fat cat British baster’s. The only way they could win the last boer war was to burn farmers houses.kill all their farm animals and let 36000 poor women and children die in concentration camps….now they want to rule the world with the USA and NATO.Our boers farmers ripped your Yankees apart and we pay a high price when it comes to our beloved women and children…..so NATO…if you wanna saddle up the bear (Russia) I hope you gone ride it……
23 million odd unemployed in the EU and they blame Russia.
Sadly, some will believe them.
This isn’t really much different than anything else in history so we shouldn’t be surprised. When governments are losing the populace, they try to find an enemy to unit people against.
Old Roman saying: “When there is not enough to eat and the people are angry, just beat loudly on a drum and put out more flags”.
At this point, NATO is a joke organization.
I agree 100%; and would likewise include the Democrats.
The wicked ‘bitch’ Hillary boasted on CNN (Corporate News Network)
that Trump (was) going to bankrupt the USG. Never mind the country
has already racked up 20 TRILLION in debt on wasteful spending and
its never-ending wars for profit.
Nato is the US and the US is no joke. It’s a very dangerous threat to world peace. Please try to understand that Hillary has nothing to do with the US propping up Nato.
And as I’ve already said elsewhere, the same is true for the UN. Maybe you should rethink your support of lardbaldric’s idea that Nato is a joke? Be one of the first Americans on this board to start accepting responsibility.
luv from Canada.
Be one of the first Americans on this board to start accepting responsibility…’
If by that statement you’re suggesting that I, as a USG citizen, take ‘responsibility’ and exercise my ‘First Amendment’ right to peaceably assembly, I’m way ahead of you.
The USG corporate media you probably watch in Canada is slanted in such a way that marginalizes the efforts of individuals and organizations who don’t buy the bullshit from the warmongering political establishment.
In January 2003, after Powell stood before the UN and knowingly lied about Saddam Hussein possessing WMDs, I attended a peaceful rally in Philadelphia PA, sponsored by friends in Code Pink, and Iraq war veterans from the 1991 debacle.
There was (NO) violence or harsh words. However, when I got home and turned on the tube, some stooge bastard in the corporate media claimed
violence had taken place. Supposedly insults and a bottle were thrown at a few cops.
The corporate media uses this cowardly tactic to those who might want to exercise their right to ‘peaceably’ assemble. The current situation at Standing Rock is another example.
There were hundreds of similar protests in other USG cities. 3 million citizens who took responsibility, and attempted to persuade a corrupt
Bush regime bent on war.
Likewise, this Blue state vs Red state, Dem vs Repug is bullshit the establishment uses to divide the masses. Both parties wallow in the same pig slop, and aren’t worth a damn.
Myself and others have spent 20 years working to overturn racism in Bill Clinton’s so-called Crime Bill. That’s for another post.
I was in California, one of your ‘Blue’ states, after Oscar Grant, and Andy Lopez were murdered by cops. The racism and hatred we encountered
was on par with Alabama and Georgia.
I also wish to make it clear that I don’t support violence or terrorism. I support change through peaceful organizing and educating a gullible
USG society.
We masses down here can use all the help we can get against the corrupt corporate media. KPFA.org is one of the few bastions remaining where you can find alternative media. If you haven’t already, please tune in, and perhaps become a member.
It’s alright to say that as long as you understand that Nato is a tool of the US. For that reason there will never be an initiative coming out of the US to disband Nato.
luv from Canada.
The USG is the biggest hypocrite on the face of the planet.
It uses its flunky, NATO to condemn Russia for a host of
bogus accusations, while overlooking the murder, carnage,
and destruction the USG has wrought on the planet.
The USG is currently engaged in FOUR wars around the globe.
It has slaughtered 1 MILLION Iraqis, destroyed their country,
and it’s responsible for the chaos and the influx of refugees
into Europe. It supports brutal regimes in Saudi Arabia and
Palestine that continue to slaughter humans without regard.
It’s disgusting.
Perhaps the problem is NATO!?!?!?!?!? NATO is an organization that has not point in existing other than making war far more likely than less likely, or at least under the fools and idiots who currently run it.
The PEOPLE reject your NEW WORLD ORDER!
Scum sucking parasites!
No Georgy, the large majority of Americans are totally onside with Nato, and no other Nato country matters. The parasites you scream about are in your back yard and the back yards of America. Recognize the truth and you will be setting yourselves up to maybe do something about the problem.
luv from Canada.
Arrogant Canadians have their own ugly fossil-fuel living government to attend to. Have a nice day, your Smugness.
So let’s see, the evil tyrant Putin, practically a dictator wanting to reestablish the old Soviet empire according to our elites, is now responsible for populism?!?! I suppose rapists are responsible for chastity now, too.
NATO has got to go.
Nato is a tool of the US and for that reason the US is not going to let Nato go.
So what to do? Re-educate Americans who are in the large majority eagerly supporting more of their wars.
All the people who have commented on this story and are gnashing their teeth, need to understand that they are the ones responsible. Hate me for saying it but at least absorb the truth.
And as you celebrate Trump as the great white hope, you only have a little while to wait to see that he’s a very bad mistake. He lacks any will to stop what your country is doing. He’s clueless and he has no balls, as witnessed two days ago when he cowered to the CIA on the Russian hacking. There went the hope so many had in him but unfortunately, none of them want to admit it quite yet. Many even claiming he didn’t fold his hand!
luv from Canada.
Look to your own neoliberal corporate tool of a government, Canada!
NATO is getting substantially discounted European military defense services courtesy of the US taxpayer, and the US MIC is happy to oblige because the money for all the gear and personnel goes into MIC bank accounts. The US is being looted, and the Europeans are perfectly happy to go along with it. Thus, NATO’s “catapulting” of the ridiculous Putin-is-the-font-of-all-evil propaganda.
Ten days from now Trump will be in the big chair and the free ride will be over. As Gorbachev ended the Soviet empire, Trump will end the American Imperium.
Nov 29, 2016 – The Map That Shows Why Russia Fears War With USA
https://youtu.be/L6hIlfHWaGU
well obviously it’s Russia’s fault that no one trusts Nato or oligarchy anymore.. it’s not all the death/fraud that Nato/oligarchy’s have promulgated, or the lies/propaganda that Nato/oligarchy’s spew on a daily basis, or the fact that Nato “and the oligarchy’s” is/are attempting to start a war with Russia.. Nope, it’s none of that..
Somehow, Russia has used some serious uber voodoo to affect the hearts and minds of people who desperately want truth instead of propagandized lies and want peace, instead of war. Yup, it’s those sneaky Russians!
END SARC!
So Russia is responsible for the West’s every shortcoming? Way to not-give-them-the-power NATO.
The arthritis in my ring finger is acting up – Putin did it!
This blaming is self-destructive. NATO, EU, US, UK have all lost the consent of their own populations. When that happens, the correct move is to change government behavior to regain the consent. The disgruntled half are already looking toward Russia with favor.
Now the Western governments have openly acknowledged that Russia is the superior alternative. (Russia couldn’t “influence” us if it wasn’t offering a superior product.)
We should all take our freedom like the Greeks.
It’s called austerity
Good for Russia but not true. Russia had nothing to do with our ability here in the states to see how corrupt the EU, NATO and the oligarchs of DC are and how internationalism has destroyed sovereignty. So, again, good for Russia and good for us.