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Originally Posted by Pierre
Trying to work out which bit of Farage’s comments on Russia / Ukraine is inaccurate, haven’t found it yet.
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As I’ve just noted in the Ukraine thread, one of Farage’s core skills is floating unpleasant, dog-whistle inferences which hit the right eardrums but which are plausibly deniable if there’s blowback.
Farage’s comments on provocation are obvious Putin apologetics even while he’s denying they are. He is victim-blaming and it is every bit as objectionable as claiming a woman in a short skirt is ‘asking for it’. The EU is not a military threat to anyone. The very idea is absurd. It is at best a cultural threat to a fascist bent on assimilation based on a warped presentation of history, but those are the perceptions of someone who is very far from being a normal human being. Yet Farage offers EU expansion as a provocation. NATO is not a military threat to anyone. It never has been. And the reason for its continued existence, and its growing popularity in Ukraine, is being amply proved by Russia right now.