MAGA influencers want to sculpt Europe in Trump’s image
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon is clearly gleeful as we sit down to discuss the new U.S. National Security Strategy and the hostility it displays toward America’s supposed allies in Europe.
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In short, could we see a reprise of Cold War tactics of political subversion? A time that saw the CIA competing with the KGB, meddling in elections in Italy and Greece, secretly funding academic journals, magazines and think tanks across Western Europe, and disseminating black propaganda to shape public opinion and counter Soviet propaganda.
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[Markus] Frohnmaier is among the AfD politicians flocking to the U.S. to meet with Trump officials and attend MAGA events. Earlier this month, he was the guest of honor at a gala hosted by New York’s Young Republicans Club, where he was awarded a prize in memory of founding CIA director Allen Dulles, who had overseen the agency’s massive operation to manipulate Italy’s 1948 election and ensure a Soviet-backed Popular Front didn’t win.
Related:
‘Make Europe Great Again’ and more from a longer version of the National Security Strategy
See Europe: The Trump Regime, the Heritage Foundation, & Project 2025
CIA and the Cultural Cold War (Anti-Communism)
Bannon: Cambridge Analytica and the Right-Wing Populist Movements
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