Defence agency says Moscow is using the protests in Stockholm to stir tensions between Arab countries and the west

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    Russia at the center of a whole hell of a lot of the tension and strife that the world has gone through over the last few years.

    He is trying to destabilize the West in hundreds of different way and average folks just don’t understand or actually would even believe. Far right candidates in Italy, France, the US and elsewhere. Stirring of the religious pot in Sweden and a few other Europeans countries. He has an army of Russian trolls online trying to spread misinformation and propaganda. The most obvious international meddling that he’s done is invade Ukraine, but there is just so much more.

    This list is from 5 years ago and so much more could be added, but much of the meddling we won’t really know for years to come.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/09/07/alleged-russian-political-meddling-documented-27-countries-since-2004/619056001/

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    The first Quran burning event in Sweden was Paid by a party of the extreme right with Russian connections. The burning was in front of the Turkish embassy, to anger Turkey as much as possible, probably exactly to prevent Sweden from entering NATO.

    So very obviously the Russians had part in it from the beginning.

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      Which one? That stupid Dane has been burning Qurans in Sweden since before the war began.

      And it’s a bit misleading to say paid. It’s technically true, but it is a very low amount of money that’s needed for a permit. It’s 50 € or something like that.

      While the Russians might have encouraged it, he would have done it anyways. He just loves attention.

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      But seriously, if anything fucky is going on rn, my default is that Russia is behind it. Kinda sucks because it’s just another conspiracy theory, but it fits too well not to be true most of the time. The coups going on in Niger (and Mali and Burkina Faso before) are the most obvious examples. Less obvious is the disinformation campaign in Germany (and probably all over europe) against progressive policies atm.

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        I think it’s less about being against progressive policies and more about creating societal friction by supporting controversial figures and helping politicians that are pro-russia. The conservative/ alt right politics fit Russia, but more importantly those parties are often less critical of Russia (they don’t mind their anti human rights / free press autocratic tendencies as much) while also being underrated in the polls. Populistic anti-migration parties often aren’t taken seriously and rarely included in coalitions, but get a surprising amount of votes which can still be fairly useful to influence those countries.

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        The coup in Niger is directly tied to Russia through the Wagner group. Those assholes are neck deep in seemingly half the continent’s internal strife.

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        Apparently the west is just sitting on their asses doing nothing with exponentially more resources than russia?

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          Saying one thing is happening doesn’t make it mutually exclusive for other things to be happening.

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            The person I responded to said, and I quote, “if anything fucky is going on rn, my default is that Russia is behind it.”