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Douglas Kawasaki

(51 posts)
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 11:41 AM Dec 2016

Austria's Far Right Signs a Cooperation Pact With Putin's Party

Source: New York Times

BERLIN The leader of the Austrian far-right Freedom Party has signed what he called a cooperation agreement with Russias ruling party and recently met with Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, the designated national security adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump of the United States.

Word of the agreement with Russia was the latest sign that the Kremlin is forging bonds with political parties across Europe in what some European leaders suspect is a coordinated attempt to meddle in their affairs and potentially weaken Western democracies. Many of these efforts are murky and involve obscure groups, and it is unclear what, if any, direct involvement President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia may have.

The Freedom Party leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, reported the signing of the agreement with United Russia, Mr. Putins party, on Monday on his Facebook page, where he also disclosed that he had visited General Flynn a few weeks ago in Trump Tower in New York.

Internationally, the Freedom Party continues to gain in influence, wrote Mr. Strache, a dental technician who has led the party since 2005.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/world/europe/austrias-far-right-signs-a-cooperation-pact-with-putins-party.html?_r=0



Translation: Hack left/center parties only, and spread fake news in Facebook/Twitter.

By the way, do you know which historic figure was a right-wing Austrian?
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Austria's Far Right Signs a Cooperation Pact With Putin's Party (Original Post) Douglas Kawasaki Dec 2016 OP
These nazis need to undergo a cultural genocide. muntrv Dec 2016 #1
Cultural? FiveGoodMen Dec 2016 #3
But Putin is good and also Progressive! We're bad if we oppose anything he does! stevenleser Dec 2016 #2
modern day Molotov-Ribbentrop pack. nt Javaman Dec 2016 #4
Austria needs to put a stop to it. LiberalFighter Dec 2016 #5

LiberalFighter

(53,544 posts)
5. Austria needs to put a stop to it.
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 12:39 PM
Dec 2016

There needs to be a campaign to totally demonize that party connecting with Russia.

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