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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrance to Probe Possible Russian Influence on Yellow Vest Riots
France opened a probe into possible Russian interference behind the countrys Yellow Vest protests, after reports that social-media accounts linked to Moscow have increasingly targeted the movement.
According to the Alliance for Securing Democracy, about 600 Twitter accounts known to promote Kremlin views have begun focusing on France, boosting their use of the hashtag #giletsjaunes, the French name for the Yellow Vest movement. French security services are looking at the situation, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Sunday in a radio interview with RTL.
Russia has been criticized for using social media to influence elections in the U.S. and elsewhere. Attempts to use fake news reports and cyberattacks to undercut the 2017 campaign of French President Emmanuel Macron failed, but Russian-linked sites have pushed questionable reports of a mutiny among police, and of officers support for the protests.
An investigation is now underway, Le Drian said. I will not make comments before the investigation has brought conclusions.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-09/pro-russia-social-media-aims-at-macron-as-yellow-vests-rage
dalton99a
(81,590 posts)orangecrush
(19,620 posts)When this first started, that Russia was involved.
"Military operations play relatively little role. The textbook believes in a sophisticated program of subversion, destabilization, and disinformation spearheaded by the Russian special services. The operations should be assisted by a tough, hard-headed utilization of Russia's gas, oil, and natural resources to bully and pressure other countries.[9]
The book states that "the maximum task [of the future] is the 'Finlandization' of all of Europe".[9]
In Europe:
Germany should be offered the de facto political dominance over most Protestant and Catholic states located within Central and Eastern Europe. Kaliningrad oblast could be given back to Germany. The book uses the term "MoscowBerlin axis".[9]
France should be encouraged to form a "FrancoGerman bloc" with Germany. Both countries have a "firm anti-Atlanticist tradition".[9]
The book emphasizes that Russia must spread Anti-Americanism everywhere: "the main 'scapegoat' will be precisely the U.S."
In the United States:
Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".[9]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
dalton99a
(81,590 posts)The United Kingdom should be cut off from Europe.
Ukraine should be annexed by Russia
Dugin's translator is married to Richard Spencer: