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TrumpCouncil Council appreciated Vance’s visit to Greenland: “The world’s redditation continues...<br><br><a href="https://socialbites.ca/politics/789695.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://socialbites.ca/politics/789695.html</a><br><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alexey" target="_blank">#Alexey</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pushkov" target="_blank">#Pushkov</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/appreciated" target="_blank">#appreciated</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/continues" target="_blank">#continues</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Council" target="_blank">#Council</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Denmark" target="_blank">#Denmark</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Donald" target="_blank">#Donald</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Federation" target="_blank">#Federation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Council" target="_blank">#Council</a><br><br><a href="https://awakari.com/pub-msg.html?id=VhaRcRxbrfYMXZOH2lcDRWPQ3Wq" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Event Attributes</a>
TrumpPushkov opened details about the incident with Trump and Microphone 08:57 The United States citiz...<br><br><a href="https://socialbites.ca/politics/778899.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://socialbites.ca/politics/778899.html</a><br><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alexey" target="_blank">#Alexey</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pushkov" target="_blank">#Pushkov</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/details" target="_blank">#details</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Donald" target="_blank">#Donald</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Federation" target="_blank">#Federation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Council" target="_blank">#Council</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Incident" target="_blank">#Incident</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microphone" target="_blank">#microphone</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opened" target="_blank">#opened</a><br><br><a href="https://awakari.com/pub-msg.html?id=LyNN13QRhX13SpxNhJdDSc9SYro" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Event Attributes</a>
TrumpRussian Federation said that USAID sent approximately 650 million dollars 04:21 The US Internatio...<br><br><a href="https://socialbites.ca/latest-news/771045.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://socialbites.ca/latest-news/771045.html</a><br><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Latest" target="_blank">#Latest</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" target="_blank">#News</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alexey" target="_blank">#Alexey</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Shevtsov" target="_blank">#Shevtsov</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/approximately" target="_blank">#approximately</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dollars" target="_blank">#dollars</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Federation" target="_blank">#Federation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Georgia" target="_blank">#Georgia</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kishinev" target="_blank">#Kishinev</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/million" target="_blank">#million</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Moldova" target="_blank">#Moldova</a><br><br><a href="https://awakari.com/pub-msg.html?id=XsMnsGfuemW7Tmaj0OI5JCklOxk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Event Attributes</a>
TrumpHe commented on Ambassador Macron’s words about the Russian threat 04:03 Great Britain and Fran...<br><br><a href="https://socialbites.ca/politics/771047.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://socialbites.ca/politics/771047.html</a><br><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alexey" target="_blank">#Alexey</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chepa" target="_blank">#Chepa</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ambassador" target="_blank">#Ambassador</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Andrey" target="_blank">#Andrey</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kelin" target="_blank">#Kelin</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/commented" target="_blank">#commented</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Donald" target="_blank">#Donald</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/France" target="_blank">#France</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/International" target="_blank">#International</a><br><br><a href="https://awakari.com/pub-msg.html?id=ZBFiuyAnRhhPFKBlWYtUuT8Rcgq" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Event Attributes</a>
TrumpTrump was estimated by “Afghan Syndrome” in case of Ukraine’s defeat. Following the scandal...<br><br><a href="https://socialbites.ca/politics/766881.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://socialbites.ca/politics/766881.html</a><br><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Afghan" target="_blank">#Afghan</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Afghanistan" target="_blank">#Afghanistan</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alexey" target="_blank">#Alexey</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reznikov" target="_blank">#Reznikov</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/case" target="_blank">#case</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/defeat" target="_blank">#defeat</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Donald" target="_blank">#Donald</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Emmanuel" target="_blank">#Emmanuel</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Macron" target="_blank">#Macron</a><br><br><a href="https://awakari.com/pub-msg.html?id=Jdy9raJ4bQ5Qx1pgfgGVaFTqGWm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Event Attributes</a>
TrumpThey announced that Putin and Trump could talk about 11:31 in Duma state. The speech of the Russi...<br><br><a href="https://socialbites.ca/politics/750138.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://socialbites.ca/politics/750138.html</a><br><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alexey" target="_blank">#Alexey</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chepa" target="_blank">#Chepa</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/announced" target="_blank">#announced</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dmitry" target="_blank">#Dmitry</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Peskov" target="_blank">#Peskov</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Donald" target="_blank">#Donald</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Duma" target="_blank">#Duma</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/International" target="_blank">#International</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Relations" target="_blank">#Relations</a><br><br><a href="https://awakari.com/pub-msg.html?id=54gvmIfQsvhBq62QvA3qdjRZUie" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Event Attributes</a>
TrumpPushkov announced why Trump eliminated the USAID 07: 27 Alexei Pushkov, President of the Commissi...<br><br><a href="https://socialbites.ca/politics/750044.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://socialbites.ca/politics/750044.html</a><br><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alexey" target="_blank">#Alexey</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pushkov" target="_blank">#Pushkov</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/announced" target="_blank">#announced</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Donald" target="_blank">#Donald</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eliminated" target="_blank">#eliminated</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Federation" target="_blank">#Federation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Council" target="_blank">#Council</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ilon" target="_blank">#Ilon</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" target="_blank">#Musk</a><br><br><a href="https://awakari.com/pub-msg.html?id=HsnMbtUteY3yu3LWn02F9w33zd2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Event Attributes</a>
TrumpPanin, who went to the USA, about Trump’s inauguration: “We are at home” 20:33 Following hi...<br><br><a href="https://socialbites.ca/culture/734652.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://socialbites.ca/culture/734652.html</a><br><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Culture" target="_blank">#Culture</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alexey" target="_blank">#Alexey</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Panin" target="_blank">#Panin</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Donald" target="_blank">#Donald</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Home" target="_blank">#Home</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/inauguration" target="_blank">#inauguration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mexican" target="_blank">#Mexican</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Panin" target="_blank">#Panin</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SanFrancisco" target="_blank">#SanFrancisco</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Spain" target="_blank">#Spain</a><br><br><a href="https://awakari.com/pub-msg.html?id=2cEBPrz4511iyiGQ5Ydn1zR6xEG" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Event Attributes</a>
TrumpPushkov explained the reasons for the postponement of Trump’s inauguration 21:35 Federation Cou...<br><br><a href="https://socialbites.ca/politics/732928.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://socialbites.ca/politics/732928.html</a><br><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alexey" target="_blank">#Alexey</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pushkov" target="_blank">#Pushkov</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Donald" target="_blank">#Donald</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/explained" target="_blank">#explained</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Federation" target="_blank">#Federation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Council" target="_blank">#Council</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/inauguration" target="_blank">#inauguration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Postponement" target="_blank">#Postponement</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pushkov" target="_blank">#Pushkov</a><br><br><a href="https://awakari.com/pub-msg.html?id=DYh4cSZ8xPizNA54IiEaY8DZgLA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Event Attributes</a>
TelegramDonetsk authorities reported explosions in the city 13:05 Donetsk Mayor Alexey Kulemzin said in h...<br><br><a href="https://socialbites.ca/latest-news/718983.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://socialbites.ca/latest-news/718983.html</a><br><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Latest" target="_blank">#Latest</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" target="_blank">#News</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alexey" target="_blank">#Alexey</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kulemzin" target="_blank">#Kulemzin</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authorities" target="_blank">#authorities</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/city" target="_blank">#city</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/donetsk" target="_blank">#donetsk</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/explosions" target="_blank">#explosions</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kherson" target="_blank">#Kherson</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kyiv" target="_blank">#Kyiv</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reported" target="_blank">#reported</a><br><br><a href="https://awakari.com/pub-msg.html?id=TGCBEDBE2ZDc81Uw8apCHfH0Uoy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Event Attributes</a>
Chuck Darwin<p>⭐️The ‘Traditionalists’ and Trump⭐️</p><p>With the election of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a>, Putin has found a potential ally in unwinding the trans-Atlantic networks that support the liberal democracies that flowered following the end of the Cold War. </p><p>Trump, like Putin, has made his disdain for groups like NATO and the EU clear, </p><p>and pushed a vision of Victorian-era spheres of interest, <br />in which regional powers are allowed something far closer to free reign in their respective regions than anything seen during the post-Cold War period. </p><p>While Trump falls back on fiscal arguments, <br />claiming that security relations with other NATO member-states aren’t worth the price of maintaining the U.S.’s participation, <br />his opposition to organizations like the European Union parallels arguments out of the Kremlin<br />—all while Trump continues defending Putin’s policies. </p><p>Any time he’s faced with questions of Putin’s probity<br />—of Moscow’s destruction of an independent press, say, <br />or of the Kremlin’s suffocation of opposition actors<br />—Trump deflects. </p><p>Not only has the former president continued casting doubt on the U.S. intelligence consensus that Moscow meddled in the American election to support Trump, <br />but he has further said Putin has been <br />“far more” of a “leader” than former President Barack Obama ever was.</p><p>Indeed, it’s within Trump’s outspoken praise for Putin that we can trace the contours of the reasons <br />white nationalists and members of the Religious Right continue to look to Moscow for support and inspiration, <br />and continue to admire and praise Putin’s policies. </p><p>For white nationalists, in their blinkered understanding of recent developments in Moscow, <br />Putin presents something of an ur-leader: </p><p>a head of state embodying an idealized view of masculinity, <br />undistracted by legal or cultural niceties in pursuit of his ultimate end-goals. </p><p>Rather than remaining within the understood boundaries of post-Cold War politics, <br />Putin has, to America’s white nationalists, <br />reclaimed the primacy of a white, Christian population within a multi-ethnic federation: </p><p>a model white nationalists envision as a possibility under Trump. </p><p>The Religious Right, meanwhile, stands enthralled with Putin’s willingness to bolster the church, <br />with the Russian Orthodox Church maintaining a clear, superior role both within the state and over other non-Christian religions.</p><p>Moscow is only too happy to provide both financial and organizational backing for sympathetic groups in the U.S. and elsewhere, <br />and is almost certain to do so for the foreseeable future. </p><p>And with Trump’s inauguration, Moscow has a man in Washington who, by all appearances, <br />has little interest in investigating these ties, <br />or of slowing these swelling links. </p><p>While Trump and his team occupy the White House, Russia will have an ally in attempting to roll back the liberal order, <br />with the American president acting as a partner, <br />witting or otherwise, of the Kremlin<br />—as well as the white nationalists and Religious Right cohorts on both sides of the Atlantic, <br />whose support for the Kremlin seems likely to accelerate for the foreseeable future.</p><p>(10/10)<br /> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yelena" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yelena</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mizulina" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mizulina</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vladimir" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vladimir</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yakunin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yakunin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/dominionist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dominionist</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bryan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bryan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fischer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fischer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Franklin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Franklin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Graham" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Graham</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WCF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WCF</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Allan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Allan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carlson" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Carlson</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anatoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Anatoly</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Antonov" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Antonov</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Viktor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Viktor</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Medkov" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Medkov</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/antiLGBT" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>antiLGBT</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alexey" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Alexey</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Komov" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Komov</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Brian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brown" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Brown</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IOF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IOF</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Religious" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Religious</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Right" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Right</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/missionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>missionaries</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>David</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Duke" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Duke</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Preston" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Preston</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wiginton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wiginton</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Harold" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Harold</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Covington" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Covington</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mike</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cernovich" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cernovich</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Matthew" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Matthew</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Heimbach" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Heimbach</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HailPutin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HailPutin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PutinForTsar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PutinForTsar</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Novorossiya" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Novorossiya</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Konstantin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Konstantin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Malofeev" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Malofeev</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TraditionalistWorkerParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TraditionalistWorkerParty</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Richard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Richard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Spencer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Spencer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NPI</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/antiSemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>antiSemitism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/monoracial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>monoracial</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/statehood" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>statehood</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/L%C3%BCgenpresse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lügenpresse</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jobbik" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jobbik</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nina" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nina</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kouprianova" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kouprianova</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Byzantina" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Byzantina</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Richard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Richard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Spencer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Spencer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Matthew" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Matthew</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Heimbach" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Heimbach</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alexander" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Alexander</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dugin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dugin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Eurasianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Eurasianism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Eternal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Eternal</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rome" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rome</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alex" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Alex</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jones" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jones</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/InfoWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InfoWars</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>The links between American conservative organizations and Putin’s inner circle, <br />including those tasked with pushing the Kremlin’s geopolitical policies throughout the West, <br />have sometimes created outsized tensions for those on the American end of the relationship. </p><p>One such moment came in early 2014, <br />when Putin began citing the protection of ethnic Russians<br />—and Russian Orthodox believers<br />—as rationale for the annexation of Crimea. </p><p>Even though the WCF announced that it would cancel its planned 2014 conference in Moscow, <br />many of the scheduled speakers nonetheless showed up, <br />and the conference proceeded in all but name. </p><p>Beyond that, though, the gathering confirmed a trend long in the making, says Stroop. </p><p>Indeed, the 2014 conference, he said, represented <br />“Russia taking on the mantle of leadership of global social conservatism.”</p><p>(9/N)</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yelena" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yelena</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mizulina" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mizulina</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vladimir" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vladimir</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yakunin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yakunin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/dominionist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dominionist</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bryan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bryan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fischer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fischer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Franklin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Franklin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Graham" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Graham</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WCF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WCF</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Allan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Allan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carlson" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Carlson</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anatoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Anatoly</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Antonov" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Antonov</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Viktor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Viktor</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Medkov" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Medkov</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/antiLGBT" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>antiLGBT</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alexey" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Alexey</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Komov" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Komov</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Brian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brown" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Brown</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IOF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IOF</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Religious" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Religious</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Right" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Right</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/missionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>missionaries</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>David</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Duke" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Duke</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Preston" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Preston</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wiginton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wiginton</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Harold" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Harold</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Covington" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Covington</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mike</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cernovich" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cernovich</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Matthew" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Matthew</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Heimbach" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Heimbach</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HailPutin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HailPutin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PutinForTsar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PutinForTsar</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Novorossiya" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Novorossiya</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Konstantin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Konstantin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Malofeev" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Malofeev</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TraditionalistWorkerParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TraditionalistWorkerParty</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Richard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Richard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Spencer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Spencer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NPI</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/antiSemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>antiSemitism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/monoracial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>monoracial</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/statehood" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>statehood</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/L%C3%BCgenpresse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lügenpresse</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jobbik" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jobbik</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nina" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nina</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kouprianova" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kouprianova</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Byzantina" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Byzantina</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Richard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Richard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Spencer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Spencer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Matthew" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Matthew</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Heimbach" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Heimbach</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alexander" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Alexander</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dugin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dugin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Eurasianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Eurasianism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Eternal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Eternal</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rome" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rome</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alex" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Alex</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jones" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jones</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/InfoWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InfoWars</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>The links between Russian officials and the American Religious Right, <br />like those between Kremlin-linked actors and American white nationalists, <br />are easy to trace. </p><p>According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Duma member <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yelena" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yelena</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mizulina" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mizulina</span></a>, <br />who helped spearhead Russia’s anti-gay “propaganda” law, <br />has been “heavily involved” with the WCF. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Vladimir" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vladimir</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yakunin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yakunin</span></a>, former head of Russian Railways<br />—and a Kremlin insider who has cultivated additional links with the American theocratic “<a href="https://c.im/tags/dominionist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dominionist</span></a>” movement<br />—has also served as a WCF committee member.</p><p>Likewise, Russia’s 2011 package of anti-abortion legislation saw conspicuous links with the WCF’s efforts. </p><p>To wit, the package of abortion restrictions, speared by Mizulina, was launched a day after a series of WCF higher-ups, <br />including Carlson and Managing Director Larry Jacobs, <br />settled into Moscow for a <br />“Demographic Summit,” <br />the WCF’s most substantial assembly in Russia to date. </p><p>As the head of a Russian women’s advocacy group later said, <br />“It was 100 percent clear that everything [in the anti-abortion legislation] was copied from the experience of American fundamentalists <br />and conservative circles of several European countries <br />where abortion is forbidden or restricted severely.” </p><p>Or as the WCF would later claim in its promotional material: </p><p>The WCF “helped pass the first Russian laws restricting abortion in modern history.”</p><p>Still, the WCF is by no means the lone U.S. Religious Right organization outspoken in its praise of Moscow, <br />or supporting Kremlin policy. </p><p>Over the past few years, arch-conservatives in the U.S. have begun espousing something approaching infatuation with Putin, <br />especially for Moscow’s leading role in both passing and encouraging anti-LGBT legislation. </p><p>For instance, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bryan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bryan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fischer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fischer</span></a>, who until 2015 was a spokesman for the &quot;American Family Association&quot; <br />and who still hosts a show broadcast over its radio network, <br />has called Putin the <br />“lion of Christianity.” </p><p>Evangelist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Franklin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Franklin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Graham" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Graham</span></a><br />—who visited Russia in 2015 to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill<br />—has likewise lauded Putin as someone “protecting traditional Christianity.”</p><p>(8/N)</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WCF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WCF</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Allan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Allan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carlson" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Carlson</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anatoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Anatoly</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Antonov" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Antonov</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Viktor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Viktor</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Medkov" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Medkov</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/antiLGBT" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>antiLGBT</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alexey" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Alexey</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Komov" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Komov</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Brian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brown" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Brown</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IOF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IOF</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Religious" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Religious</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Right" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Right</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/missionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>missionaries</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>David</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Duke" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Duke</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Preston" class="mention 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Chuck Darwin<p>⭐️The World Congress of Families<br />-- From Idea to Movement⭐️</p><p>One of the primary vehicles in building Moscow’s relations with the U.S. Religious Right is known as the <br />&quot;World Congress of Families&quot;. </p><p>Founded in 1997, the <a href="https://c.im/tags/WCF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WCF</span></a> says its mission is to <br />“respect, protect, and defend” the <br />“natural family founded on marriage between a man and a woman.” </p><p>A 2014 report in The Nation, looking at the WCF’s earliest days, <br />detailed the close relationship between WCF founder <a href="https://c.im/tags/Allan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Allan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carlson" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Carlson</span></a> <br />and the Russian Orthodox Church. </p><p>In fact, the partnership between the two actually predates the WCF: </p><p>According to Jennifer Butler’s <br />“Born Again: The Christian Right Globalized,” <br />Carlson, speaking in 1995 at Moscow State University, <br />determined with a representative from the Russian Orthodox Church that<br /> “they needed … to bring together scholars and leaders from ‘newly free Europe and Russia’ to meet with leaders from the West.”</p><p>Further, as Stroop recently detailed, <br />the WCF grew as the brainchild of Carlson and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anatoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Anatoly</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Antonov" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Antonov</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Viktor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Viktor</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Medkov" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Medkov</span></a>, <br />a pair of sociology professors at Lomonosov Moscow State University. </p><p>The two Russians, according to Mother Jones, were casting about in the mid-1990s for a means to stave off their country’s looming “demographic winter”<br />—the idea that progressive legislation, <br />from birth control to LGBT rights, <br />will precipitate civilizational collapse<br />—and stumbled over Carlson’s prior work. </p><p>Gathering in the apartment of a “Russian Orthodox mystic,” <br />the trio outlined an organization that would help organize a global Christian right<br />—and resurge Russia to a leadership position abdicated during the atheistic Soviet period.</p><p>Some two decades on, the Illinois-based WCF has now morphed into one of the world’s foremost <a href="https://c.im/tags/antiLGBT" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>antiLGBT</span></a> organizations: </p><p>Per the Southern Poverty Law Center, the WCF “is one of the key driving forces behind the U.S. Religious Right’s global export of homophobia.” </p><p>The group hosts global and regional summits <br />designed to share strategies and build connections among activists and policymakers. </p><p>In 2016, the WCF hosted a conference in Tbilisi, Georgia, <br />where speakers encouraged attendees to <br />“stay firm against homofascists” <br />and “rainbow radicals.” </p><p>One of the keynote speakers at the event was <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alexey" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Alexey</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Komov" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Komov</span></a>, who, <br />as the WCF’s primary representative in Russia, <br />has not only helped facilitate Moscow’s efforts to woo and fund far-right groups across the West, <br />but is also closely linked with those backing Moscow-supported separatists in eastern Ukraine.</p><p>The WCF is now run by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Brian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brown" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Brown</span></a>, the co-founder and president of the vehemently anti-gay &quot;National Organization for Marriage&quot;<br /> and a man who has his own history of visiting Russia to lobby for anti-LGBT legislation. </p><p>In December, Brown announced that the WCF will be run as a project of a new group, the <br />&quot;International Organization for the Family&quot; ( <a href="https://c.im/tags/IOF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IOF</span></a> ). </p><p>Komov was among the anti-LGBT activists from around the world who joined Brown in South Africa for the IOF’s launch. </p><p>Komov said at the time that allies in the Russian parliament would be promoting the group’s anti-LGBT manifesto, <br />which they are calling &quot;The Cape Town Declaration.&quot;</p><p> And it appears that they are wasting no time. </p><p>In early February, Brown sent a fundraising email from Moscow, where he had gone to promote the declaration and build working relationships with lawmakers from Putin’s United Russia party.</p><p>(7/N)</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Religious" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Religious</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Right" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Right</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/missionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>missionaries</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>David</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Duke" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Duke</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Preston" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Preston</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wiginton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wiginton</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Harold" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Harold</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Covington" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Covington</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mike</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cernovich" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cernovich</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Matthew" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Matthew</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Heimbach" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Heimbach</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HailPutin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HailPutin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PutinForTsar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PutinForTsar</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Novorossiya" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Novorossiya</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Konstantin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Konstantin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Malofeev" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Malofeev</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TraditionalistWorkerParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TraditionalistWorkerParty</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Richard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Richard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Spencer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Spencer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NPI</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/antiSemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>antiSemitism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/monoracial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>monoracial</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/statehood" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>statehood</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/L%C3%BCgenpresse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lügenpresse</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jobbik" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jobbik</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nina" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nina</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kouprianova" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kouprianova</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Byzantina" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Byzantina</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Richard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Richard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Spencer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Spencer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Matthew" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Matthew</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Heimbach" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Heimbach</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alexander" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Alexander</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dugin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dugin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Eurasianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Eurasianism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Eternal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Eternal</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rome" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rome</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alex" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Alex</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jones" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jones</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/InfoWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InfoWars</span></a></p>