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warrprayer

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Tue Nov 1, 2016, 05:52 PM Nov 2016

" Vladimir Putin’s Campaign to Seduce, Subvert and Screw Over Western Democracies"...

"For more than an hour, we drank cappuccinos on the edge of the square in a café called Fluctuat Nec Mergitur, “storm-tossed but not sunk,” the ancient Latin motto of the city of Paris that became the watchwords of resistance to terror after the horrific attacks here on Nov. 13 last year. So there was a certain irony in our discussion of Putin’s twisted but often effective messages to the West.
“The key is to say we are declining countries because we don’t have moral values anymore,” Hénin explained. The message the Russians bring—a message they insinuate anywhere they can—is that “we are too open to ‘foreign’ influences”: too much immigration, too much Islam, too many LGBT rights, too much America. And not enough Russia, it would seem."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/30/vladimir-putin-s-campaign-to-seduce-subvert-and-screw-over-western-democracies-including-ours.html


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" Vladimir Putin’s Campaign to Seduce, Subvert and Screw Over Western Democracies"... (Original Post) warrprayer Nov 2016 OP
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