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A U.S. intelligence community assessment obtained by Yahoo News concluded that the Russian government is providing indirect and passive support to neofascist groups operating in the U.S. and elsewhere, but stops short of accusing the Kremlin of supplying financial or material assistance to Western extremist groups.
The Kremlin probably tolerates some private Russian entities support for U.S. and European white nationalist groups because it aligns with Kremlin efforts to aggravate societal fissures in the West, states the report.
Russian neofascist groups have attempted to recruit and provide paramilitary training to North American and European extremists in order to expand their reach into the West, increase membership, and raise money, according to the unclassified July 2021 intelligence report.
The support of Western neofascists by Russian extremists poses a potential threat to Western security by encouraging and enabling attacks on ethnic minorities and government facilities, states the report, which is titled Russian Federation Support of Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-intelligence-report-details-indirect-russian-government-support-for-western-neo-fascist-groups-233831082.html
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)dem4decades
(11,300 posts)drray23
(7,635 posts)It was reported before that a lot of Russians were somehow buying Trump condos in his luxury towers for example.
dem4decades
(11,300 posts)I'm over thinking anything will ever happen to any of them.
Turbineguy
(37,360 posts)neofascists are useful idiots.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Botany
(70,547 posts)... Canadian Truckers and their right wing former law enforcement or retired military leaders?
Wicked Blue
(5,846 posts)Anything to distract the US and our allies from their plan to invade Ukraine
Botany
(70,547 posts).... problems inside of Russia.
Wicked Blue
(5,846 posts)by conquering all of the countries that left the Soviet Union. I fear that that's the main driver in his plans.