Quote du Jour | Today’s fringe becomes tomorrow’s mainstream
Putin has spent years courting the European far left and far right. For years too, conventional opinion has regarded his alliance-building as another sideshow. (…)
Putin was smarter. He understood what conventional wisdom never grasps: today’s fringe becomes tomorrow’s mainstream. Putin has welcomed his admirers from the European left and pumped money into Marine Le Pen’s Front National in France. His investment is coming good.
Achter de anti-EU referenda (Oekraïne, Brexit) gaat volgens Guardian-commentator Nick Cohen iets sinisterders schuil: het Kremlin onderhoudt al jaren warme banden met zowel radicaal linkse als populistisch-nationalistisch rechtse bewegingen en partijen, teneinde de EU intern te verzwakken.