Analysis: Why the far-left and far-right can’t resist Putin | KnottMatthew
“Among the worst disseminators of Kremlin propaganda in the UK are people with whom I have, in the past, shared platforms and made alliances,” Monbiot wrote.
Fiona Edwards, a member of the coalition’s steering committee, as well as a self-described socialist and anti-imperialist, has insisted that “NATO is the aggressor, not Russia”. At the other end of the political extreme, some members of the right are instinctively drawn to the Putin for different reasons. In their worldview, Putin is a champion of social conservatism, a refreshing antithesis to what they regard as the directionless, decadent and feminised direction of Western nations. They love his persona as a macho strongman and share his opposition to multiculturalism, gay rights and Islam.
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