Duration: 2h 52min 40sec

Topics: ZeroHedge again tries to shill for the invasion of Ukraine with dumb logic; he claims that NATO is at fault for not accepting Putin’s demands to pull the alliance back to the 1997 borders; aka Putin gets whatever he wants & if not accepted he gets to invade countries; wiggers clear a methhead dope dealer for membership proving there are no standards for wignats; prison gang nationalism on the rise; last we go into the evidence that post-1940 Hitler embraces a type of Third Worldist Maoist ideology of categorizing Germany with the “oppressed, proletarian nations” struggling against the “plutocrats” despite himself invading & colonizing Poland, Ukraine & Russia.

Here are some of the elements that Russia is currently controlling:

The “anti-imperialist” left: These are people who I would categorize as Chomskyite leftists whose main agenda is to oppose American and Western “imperialism” and foreign policy. They cross-pollinate with the generic “anti-war”/”pro-peace” crowd. They portend to be anti-interventionist and anti-war, but that’s a farce. They’re only against Western-led wars and interventions because they’re anti-Western, and, ultimately, anti-white who push the discourse of post-colonialism and white guilt. These hypocrites fully support wars and interventions when regimes of the global east or south wage them, particularly Russia and China. Their agenda is to dismantle NATO and the American empire in order to erect an anti-white BRICS coalition empire, led by Russia and China, to dominate the globe and “punish” the West. This category includes double-speaking liars like George Galloway, Jeremy Corbyn, Abby Martin, Max Blumenthal, Patrick Henningsen, Eric Draitser, Michel Chossudovsky, James Corbett, William Blum, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Amy Goodman, Chris Hedges and virtually anyone who writes for Counter-Punch and Global Research. Unsurprisingly, all of these dubious characters are fixtures on Russia’s English-language television stations pumping out their anti-Western vitriol. Some even have or have had their own shows on the RT/Sputnik network. Martin has had a show on both RT and the Venezuelan (Marxist) channel Telesur. Galloway currently has a show on Sputnik and previously on Iran’s Press TV.

Pro-Assad Groupies: This faction grew out of the Syrian civil war. It largely consists of opportunistic, attention-seeking Western women, as well as Syrian women living in the West, looking to make names for themselves by pimping pro-Assad talking points. Since Russia intervened to save the Assad regime from destruction, these groupies have come out swinging for Putin and Russia generally, siding with the Kremlin in the dispute with Ukraine. They’re also generally part of the “anti-imperialist” leftist club, ragging on about how the West is evil and how anything non-Western is benevolent and good, especially non-white socialist dictators with the exception of Putin. These frauds include Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett, Mimi al-Laham (Syrian Girl), Carla Ortiz, and numerous other narcissistic females. Also Tim Anderson, a radical Marxist professor from Australia who was previously linked to a terrorist incident there, is chief among these Assad pushers, most likely in an effort to get laid with these ex-pat Syrian women running rampant in Australia.

American Libertarians: The American libertarian movement has been built up by the Kremlin because they favour total isolationism and call for a drastic reduction in US military spending. Russia Today is a major platform for US-based libertarians, and the majority of them parrot Kremlin talking points so closely that it would be a miracle if they weren’t being paid by Russia to do so. In their blind hatred of America and dislike of its foreign policy, these libertarians have jumped on the Putin cult bandwagon, pimping him as a “counter-force” against something they hate, even though the hypocrites are abandoning all of their libertarian principles to do so. The American government is far more libertarian on issues like free speech and gun rights than the totalitarian regime of Putin which jails hundreds of people a year for expressing opinions the Kremlin doesn’t like. Journalists are routinely assassinated in Russia. Some of these libertarians have cozied up to the Kremlin for opportunistic reasons so they could get more publicity selling themselves and their brand on RT. Some of these charlatans include Ron Paul, Daniel McAdams, Justin Raimondo, Scott Horton, Ryan Dawson and Adam Kokesh. In fact, Ron Paul’s underlings have direct links to pro-Kremlin NGOs based in Europe. An investigation titled “Ron Paul’s Institute for Putin’s Priorities” goes into the links.

Disgruntled Ex-US Government Employees: This group is made up of former US government employees who became disgruntled with their former employers for various reasons. This includes Sibel Edmonds (FBI), Paul Craig Roberts (former Reagan administration), Philip Giraldi (CIA), Michael Scheuer (CIA), and many others. Roberts is probably the most rabid and delusional Putin worshipper of the lot, but they all generally push the anti-US, anti-NATO line which serves the Kremlin, and never investigate Kremlin corruption, imperialism or false flags.

Shia & other opportunistic Muslims: This group consists largely of Shia Muslims who have taken up an alliance with Russia to counter their Sunni rivals in the Middle East. Shia and Sunni Muslims don’t really get along, so the opportunistic Shias have aligned themselves with Russia and China in order to gain more power and influence across the Middle East, which is mostly Sunni. Iran, Hezbollah and Assad all belong to the Shia sect of Islam. Don’t let these Shias fool you into thinking they’re the “good” Muslims as opposed to the “bad” Sunnis. Nor are they particularly principled either. During the Iraq war, many Shias backed the US invasion to topple the Sunni Saddam Hussein who kept Iraqi Shias marginalized. Iran directly aided the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 in order to topple the rival Sunni fundamentalist regime of the Taliban. These Shias are more than willing to work with the “great Satan” when it suits their interests. But now their interests align more with Russia, so that’s who they’re shilling for. Among the North American “truth movement” are Shia shills like Jonathan Azaziah, Mark Glenn, Sarah Abdullah, Khanverse, Kevin Barrett and other oddballs who tout Putin and Russia as saviours of their beloved Shia regimes in the Middle East. Barrett isn’t a Shia but he has ingratiated himself with the Iranian regime and its media branch Press TV, so he serves their interests. These hacks feign an anti-war stance until their Russian and Iranian paymasters enter the fray.

The “Kremlin-First” Alt-Right: Numerous prominent pundits on the alt-right have pushed a strong pro-Russia, pro-Putin line, usually relying on false and exaggerated claims of Putin’s conservatism to justify their support. The strongest Putin advocate in the alt-right is Richard Spencer who has direct personal connections to Russia and the cult of Russian-Eurasianist ideologue Alexander Dugin. Spencer’s wife, Nina Kouprianova, is Russian. She operates as a Putin bot on Twitter, has translated the works of Dugin into English and has appeared on RT television to regurgitate Kremlin spin about NATO and Ukraine. It seems that everyone Spencer has surrounded himself with tow this pro-Putin cult line, especially Mike Enoch, who marches in lock-step with Spencer in denouncing Trump whenever Trump does something contrary to Putin’s interests. Spencer doesn’t seem to get along with other alt-right pundits who don’t follow his Russian script, such as Greg Johnson. Another big Putin pusher in the alt-right is David Duke, who has his own strong links to Russia, having lived there for years. He always brags of having sold his book Jewish Supremacism in the lobby of the Russian parliament. Duke is also a major Assad groupie, as is Spencer, having been hosted in Syria in 2005 where he gave a speech. This is largely a result of the Russian loyalty, since Assad is Putin’s puppet. Elsewhere Duke has been pictured with Dugin. Matt Heimbach, the disgraced former head of the Traditionalist Workers Party, is the clearest Duginist in the alt-right, having been mentored by Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson, a Russophilic “orthodox medievalist” academic who has spent his career promoting Russia as the saviour of the white race and Christianity. Dugin actually spoke at Heimbach’s opening party conference, and the party’s aesthetics largely mirror the symbols of Dugin’s Eurasianist movement. Alongside Heimbach in leading the Putin cucking in the alt-right is Andrew Anglin, the oddball editor of the Daily Stormer who fled the United States and is now most likely living in Russia. From the beginning, Anglin has advanced the Putin cult, using all the standard overused talking points. An investigation into Anglin noted the likelihood he was being sponsored by Russia to agitate during the 2016 US election:

Anglin hadn’t been to the polls in years, but he wasn’t going to miss a chance to vote for Trump. His absentee ballot arrived in Ohio from Krasnodar, a city in southwest Russia near the Black Sea, according to Franklin County records. That the Russian government wouldn’t know about an American inside its borders publishing a major neo-Nazi website seems improbable. Anglin worshipped Putin, and seemed like exactly the type of online agitator Russia might use to sow chaos during the U.S. election. In March, Auernheimer told Daily Stormer commenters that he was setting up the site’s forum on “a much beefier server in the Russian Federation.” Anglin would later swear on his site—“under penalty of perjury”—that he’d never taken money or direction from the Russian government.

Most alt-righters who only listen to Spencer, Anglin and Duke end up also parroting the narratives of the Putin cult because they don’t know any better. Other alt-right sources who spread Putin worship are Red Ice TV and Arktos Media. Red Ice’s second-in-command is Lana Lokteff, who has Russian roots, and thus a strong ethnic bias for Russia and Putin. Arktos has routinely promoted and printed books by Dugin.

Truthers, American “Patriots” and Alt-Lighters: Chief among the Putin shills in this category is Alex Jones, a loudmouth charlatan who takes up any position if it will earn him more viewers and money. Around 2012 Jones started pushing a pro-Putin conspiratard line, that Putin was opposing the globalists and is our saviour from the New World Order, reversing himself from years earlier when he called Putin a terrorist “demon” and “creature of the IMF.” Jones has openly embraced Alexander Dugin, and the two have cross-interviewed each other.  For years Jones has received favourable interviews on RT. This highly-embellished and kooky discourse that Putin is an anti-globalist hero has filtered down to the broader “truther” community who eat it up like chocolate cake. This community is extremely gullible. With their chronic disbelief in any mainstream news source, these fools believe any shoddy fake news website that runs under the alternative label. Others in this category include Mike Cernovich, Paul Joseph Watson and Jay Dyer. Dyer is the most clear Duginist of the lot, pushing asinine conspiracy theories depicting every terror attack and shooting in the West as a staged hoax with crisis actors, as per his KGB demoralization agenda to convince Westerners their societies are irredeemably corrupt and that their salvation lies in Russia and Putin.

Eastern Orthodox Christians: Some eastern orthodox Christians have adopted the Putin cult simply because they identify more with the Eastern variants and institutions of Christianity than Western ones. Also, conservative Christians in general were wooed by Putin’s law against “gay propaganda” to minors. These eastern orthodox Christians are akin to Muslims and Muslim converts who support various foreign Muslim governments or groups above their own countries of residence, or Western Jews who put Israel first. These Christians harbour a religious allegiance to Russia, and by extension its government, because it’s seen as the hub of the Orthodox faith. A prominent example of this is Brother Nathael Kapner, the anti-Judaic former Jew who has spread delirious pro-Putin propaganda for years. Kapner even claimed an association with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), which, like the parent church, is probably a front for the KGB. Jay Dyer is also one of these orthodox converts who carries a religious motive behind his obscene cucking for Russia and anti-Western antipathy.

Some Zionist Jews: Some rabid Zionists favour a closer alliance with Putin and Russia because Russia doesn’t care about human rights and won’t bother Israel as much about settlement building and war crimes committed in Gaza. Various articles in mainstream publications have been written outlining the common interests between Israel and Russia, and how the US is not a reliable ally for Israel any longer. A Zionist, Josh Cohen, opined in Reuters that “With the emergence of Putin, though, Israel found the closest thing to a friend it’s ever had in Moscow,” outlining Russian-Israeli common interests as such:

Israel and Russia share a common fear of terrorism, and in 2014 Putin was one of the few world leaders to support Israel’s Operation Protective Edge against Hamas, saying “I support Israel’s battle that is intended to keep its citizens protected.” In 2005, Putin became the first Russian president to ever visit Israel, visiting the Western Wall – Judaism’s holiest site – as well as Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, where Putin observed a moment of silence. The Russian president even reportedly purchased an apartment in Tel Aviv for his then-84-year-old Jewish German teacher. Putin returned to Israel in 2012 as the guest of honor at a state dinner and to inaugurate a monument to the Red Army soldiers who defeated Hitler in World War Two.

Another op-ed in The Week argued why “Russia should take over Israel’s defences from America,” with reasoning similar to that of Cohen. Putin’s close links with Chabad Lubavitch and crackdown on anti-Jewish speech and Holocaust revisionism within Russia also has some Jews swooning.

All of these compromised activists fall in line with the stated Duginist agenda to infiltrate and subvert anti-establishment political currents in the West, drawing them into Putin’s orbit of useful idiots. In his “Principles & Strategy for the Coming War,” Dugin openly writes of the need for Russia, as part of its multi-pronged war effort against Europe and America, to recruit a Putinist/Eurasianist fifth-column inside the West so that when the “great war” begins, Russia can activate its sleeper cell networks as internal saboteurs. Dugin wrote,

Therefore, the first task to gain victory would be real fully-fledged company to create the entirely negative, monstrous, satanic image of the United States and the West in general. Therefore, the West is a place where the devil resides. It is the center of the global capitalist tentacles. It is the matrix of ​​rotting cultural perversion and a vice grip of falsehood and cynicism, violence and hypocrisy.

Ask yourself, is this not exactly what the majority of these alt-pundits promote, both left and right, that the West is satanic and evil and that in order to redeem ourselves our civilization must first die and then be reborn (under Russian control/direction)? With the above list of Kremlinist operators in the alt-media and politics, we can observe clearly that the Dugin agenda is alive and well amongst these “dissidents.” Dugin and his Kremlin backers have largely succeeded in coopting virtually all alternative media and politics in the West, save for a few principled holdouts who caught on to the charade and oppose it.

The Kremlin’s propaganda against Ukraine reads like an old Soviet propaganda ministry manual, mixed with an Anti-Defamation League press release. In a press conference after the 2014 revolution, Putin attacked the Maidan revolutionaries as “reactionary, nationalist and anti-Semitic forces.” The day previously, he claimed Maidan was led by “anti-Semites and neo-Nazis on a rampage.”

Putin’s ally, the Chabad Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar, lended his support to the Kremlin’s propaganda against Ukraine. In an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on 24 March 2014, Lazar raised concerns of “anti-Semitism” in the new Ukrainian government: “In the last 15 years I’ve never seen in Russia anything similar. And sadly, in Ukraine and in certain parts of Ukraine especially, there is a history of anti-Semitism.”

Lazar attended the “victory” speech Putin gave at the Kremlin after the Russian occupation of Crimea. In July 2014, the Russian Chabad leaders organized an international press tour via chartered plane from Moscow to draw attention to Ukrainian “anti-Semitism”. They attended a speech Putin gave in Sevastopol, where he thanked the Chabad rabbis for their efforts to “combat fascism”. One of the first acts in Crimea after the Russian occupation was a “holocaust” memorial organized by the local Chabad Rabbi Benjamin Wolf. Chabad’s loyalty was rewarded with a synagogue in Simferopol.

One notable Russian-Jewish oligarch who has spoken at Chabad conferences is Boris Spiegel, an Orthodox Jew “closely tied to the Kremlin”. Spiegel grew wealthy from his company Biotek, a major pharmaceuticals producer dominant in more than seventy markets across the Eurasian landscape. As chairman of the World Congress of Russian Jewry, he joined the Kremlin’s propaganda effort when he called for the establishment of a tribunal that would investigate the Republic of Georgia’s “war crimes” and “genocide” in 2008.

Since then, he has accused the former Soviet-occupied countries Ukraine and the Baltic states of “rapid nazification” and has called for a common history textbook for all Europe based on “serious scientific study, as well as the decisions of international judicial and political authorities on which basis the postwar world order had been built.” In other words, a textbook indoctrinating Europeans into idolizing the Soviet Union and beating themselves up over the “Nazism” and “anti-Semitism” inherent within their own countries.

In 2010, Spiegel founded the “NGO” World Without Nazism (WWN), which one US Jewish publication called “a kind of Moscow-based Anti-Defamation League”. Much like its American counterpart, WWN is a Jewish political advocacy group that attacks any political trend or figure it opposes as “anti-Semitic”. Despite its claims of being non-governmental, WWN is actually a “governmental non-governmental organization” as tied to the Kremlin as is its leader. Most of its efforts are devoted to accusing any nationalist trend in Ukraine, Finland and the Baltic states as “neo-Nazi” and harkening back to those countries “collaboration” with Nazi Germany. Its solely because these countries don’t idolize the “glorious” Soviet Union’s occupation of their lands or deny the Bolshevik/Stalinist crimes against their peoples.

Spiegel led the initiative to construct a Red Army “Victory Monument” in Netanya, Israel in 2012. Designed to commemorate the more than half a million Jews who fought for the Red Army during World War II, it was unveiled at a ceremony attended by Putin and Shimon Peres. “What I just heard has warmed my feelings toward the Jewish people and especially toward Israel,” Putin said at the ceremony. The Red Army nostalgia harkened back to the WWN’s own foundation ceremony, where Soviet songs were sung and with chants of “We’ll come back with victory! The Red Army is the strongest!”

In February 2014, Spiegel led a WWN delegation to meet with pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in Kiev, offering their support against the “extremism and neo Nazism” represented by his Ukrainian nationalist opposition. In September, the WWN bestowed “Freedom of Speech” prizes posthumously upon six journalists – including four who worked for Russian-state media – who died covering the “fight against the rebirth of Nazism” in Ukraine. Shortly after Maidan, the WWN released a statement to the Russian news agency TASS that warned “The absence of the international community’s reaction can repeat the Kristallnacht for non-Ukrainians and other ethnic minorities.” The statement continued: “Only those who want see Europe under Nazi and radical nationalists will condemn Crimea.”

In February 2015, Spiegel issued an official statement commemorating the 72th anniversary of the Soviet victory at Stalingrad. “Today neo-Nazis are once again raising their heads. Their ideology is poisoning civil society in the very heart of Europe,” Spiegel claimed. He asserted that Ukrainian “neo-fascists and neo-Nazi battalions” were committing atrocities against those “who honor the memory [of Soviet soldiers] over the Nazi machine of death.” He threatened the Ukrainians defending their own country from Russian-backed neo-Soviet separatists that they would “risk being surrounded in a new Uranus pincer,” referring to the Red Army operation that recaptured Stalingrad.

Spiegel’s useful idiots are very active in Finland and Estonia, openly denying those countries’ sovereignty and promoting Russian imperial objectives. On 23 March 2009, the WWN-affiliate organization Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee (SAFKA) staged a protest in Helsinki against the Estonian Embassy’s seminar about Stalin’s forced removal of thousands from the Baltic States. Brandishing Russian flags, other participants at the protest include dozens of members of the Russian Nashi youth organization, founded with links to the Kremlin; the pro-Russian Estonian Nochnoy Dozor (Night Watch) movement, initially founded to prevent removal of Soviet statues and symbols in Estonia and attacks its opponents as “Nazis”; and ten members of the Finnish Islamic Party, an Islamist political party led by self-admitted KGB agent and Muslim convert Abdullah Tammi. The Bolshevik Revolution was “social progress” according to SAFKA.

SAFKA leader Johan Bäckman also co-founded WWN and serves as a governing board member. He has become notorious in Finland for his aggressive pro-Russian activism, frequently accusing various politicians, journalists and academics who don’t tow the Kremlin line as “Russophobes” and “anti-Semites”. He became notorious in Finland for his pro-Soviet historiography, which denigrated the Finnish war against the Soviets in the 1940s as a “racist” effort to create a “Greater Finland” and “ethnically cleanse” Russians in collaboration with Hitler. Even though he openly engages in such anti-Finnish activities unhindered, one pro-Kremlin propaganda source claimed he was “persecuted” in Finland, oblivious to the treatment of dissidents in Putin’s Russia. This traitor completely ignores the discrimination faced by his fellow Finns under Russian occupation in Karelia.

Bäckman has uttered such absurd and bizarre statements as “Stalin was very gentle and sweet”, and has denied the sovereign existence of Estonia and Latvia, condemning their efforts to repudiate the Soviet era as “an apartheid that represents the criminal discrimination of Russians” and dismissed the Soviet occupation as a “Nazi myth”. He even wants anti-Soviet dissent in Estonia criminalized: “In my opinion speaking or writing of Soviet ‘occupation’ should be criminalized as a form of racist propaganda. I demand five years prison sentence to everyone who dares to say Estonia was ‘occupied’ by Soviet Union.” He has been expelled and barred from both Estonia and Moldova for such subversive activities.

His activities connect him directly to the Kremlin. He is the Northern European representative of the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS), an organization staffed by former Russian intelligence officers which is funded by the foreign intelligence service and presidential administration of Russia. Bäckman was a member of the “elections observer” delegation of notorious pro-Russian political figures that rubber-stamped Russia’s annexation of Crimea, even while he labelled the Maidan Revolution as “an illegal seizure of power”. He is the Finnish representative of the separatist “Dontesk People’s Republic”, warning the separatists against two Finnish journalists he claimed were “agents of the USA and Ukraine”. He has recruited Finnish fighters for the separatists under the cover of “travel” to Donbass and even “ski training”. Bäckman established the “Novorussian Embassy” in Helsinki, despite the lack of official recognition.

He also has ties with the Eurasianist leader Alexander Dugin, who has often visited Helsinki at his invitation, and he has in turn been promoted as an authority by Dugin’s Geopolitica. Much like Bäckman’s links to Boris Spiegel, Dugin has his own links with the hardcore Zionist Avigdor Eskin and has claimed that both Jews and Russians are “chosen peoples”. Certainly a useful idiot like Bäckman is only too willing to agree and sell out his own people and nation in the process.