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The National Front in France is nothing like the American Tea Party, no matter how much we wish it were. Unfortunately, it has many characteristics of a European fascist movement and so it isn't really a preferred alternative to the currently ruling Socialist party.
That a French fascist movement like the National Front is cuddling with Putin is not news and it isn't surprising. I thought it's pretty clear by now that Russia is no longer communist, but is gravitating towards a fascist model instead, with Putin as a softer, postmodernist version of a Fuehrer (some Russians call him Putler). Putin may have been a nominal Communist Party member like many other Soviet officials (it was a job requirement for a KGB officer), but he has abandoned that ideology a long time ago.
Let's make one thing clear - Putin likes to throw around the word "fascist" as an insult to his enemies, and capitalises on WWII rhetoric at home, making many zombified Russians feel that they are fighting that war all over again with the dark, fascist West. But the system he has created is nothing less than fascist, closely resembling the Nazi Germany minus the economic efficiency. He is living proof of Churchill's words: "The fascists of the future will be called anti-fascists."
Putin's former advisor, Alexander Dugin, is a true fascist and anti-Semitic ideologue, complete with the revival of the national-chauvinist Aryan ideology. This Dugin maintains a close relationship with the French National Front and its current leader, Marine Le Pen. Those who read Russian can check his Facebook updates here -
https://www.facebook.com/alexandr.dugin?
Dugin has, to a degree, masterminded and inspired the Russian nationalist separatism in the east of Ukraine, staying in direct contact with the leaders of the two self-proclaimed "people's republics" there. It is no coincidence that a bunch of French volunteers from the National Front came to Donetsk to fight alongside with the Russian national-chauvinists, killing Ukrainians, whom the Russian propaganda calls "fascists." It's completely insane, I know. When these French volunteers arrived, Dugin was peeing himself with excitement, compulsively posting exalted remarks on his Facebook page.
Back to France: this is the sad reality created by the European socialists - in the absence of real rational leadership, the only alternative to the Islamization of France is a fascist party like the National Front. That is, just about the only choice the French have now is either living in fear of terrorists or voting for the fascists. No wonder Marine Le Pen got 25% of the vote in the last election.
Very few in the West have ever heard of the obscure civil war in Tajikistan around 1990s. The two forces fighting each other were the Communists and the Islamists. That was the only choice left for the locals: if you don't like the Islamists, join the Communists. And vice versa. Whom would you choose in that situation?
Similarly, many Europeans have only three realistic choices: left-wing socialists, right-wing nationalist socialists (fascists), and Islamists. The blame is largely on the left-wing socialists, who have ruled in Europe for decades and created this mess, promoting multiculturalism and suppressing any tendencies associated with individualism and the free markets, which are the only force that could have brought Europe back on its feet.
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