For Moscow's right-wingers, payback means teaming up with a band of Texas secessionists.
Nathan Smith, who styles himself the “foreign minister” for the Texas Nationalist Movement, appeared last Spring at a far-right confab in St. Petersburg, Russia. Despite roaming around in his cowboy hat, Smith managed to keep a low-key presence at the conference, which was dominated by fascists and neo-Nazis railing against Western decadence. But at least one Russian newspaper, Vzglyad, caught up with the American, noted that TNM is “hardly a marginal group,”and quoted Smith liberally on the excellent prospects for a partial breakup of the United States. Smith declared that the Texas National Movement has 250,000 supporters—including all the Texans currently serving in the U.S. Army—and they all “identify themselves first and foremost as Texans” but are being forced to remain Americans. The United States, he added, “is not a democracy, but a dictatorship.” The Kremlin’s famed troll farms took the interview and ran with it, with dozens of bots instantly tweeting about a “Free Texas.”
WNU Editor: Oh please! If Texas wants to secede .... they will not need help from Russia to do so.
4 comments:
Yeah we do what we want.
Texas isnt going anywhere. Im in oklahoma phill and if my cowboys werent there id help build a wall to seperat out border! Ha ha boomer sooner
It's sort of the way the Soviet Union used to support anyone willing to say they were communist. Now Putin supports, in much the same spirit but hopefully with less material generosity, anyone who says they are against the progressive-neoconservative American world order.
Now if the Russians really lack understanding on America to this level then our most dangerous enemy may not be as dangerous as I once thought. The so called Texas Nationalist Movement is far from not being marginal. In fact, it is so marginal that Governor Abbott does not even know who they are and even if he does they don't register enough for him or his aides to give them any thought.
It has long been a goal of Russia to break up the United States. As such, it seems hardly surprising they would support such groups who oppose it. I'm from Texas and there is no serious plan to separate TX from the union and those who wish to do so have no following and are not taken seriously. I'm skeptical that the Russians are really misinformed enough to take such people seriously enough to have them over for meetings.
Also, such people need as the TX separatists need to think long and hard about who they are getting in bed with. Putin is former KGN who has lamented the breakup of the Soviet Union. I'm pretty sure this is not someone you would want to associate with. I'm sure Mr. Putin and his associates will find these numbskulls quite tasty!!
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