The US far-right has hailed the Taliban victory. 'They hate what we hate, we can emulate their strategy, they bring closer the global ethnic civil war,' is the sick logic... but the parallels with Saigon are ominous 1/....
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2/ The alt-right/Taliban mutual admiration network exists because both forces are philosophically anti-modern, anti-rational and anti-woman... medium.com/mosquito-ridge…
3/ But as @kathleen_belew points out, the parallels with America's defeat in Saigon are more than symbolic. Her study of the White Power movement in the 80s/90s shows defeat in Vietnam was a major impetus for its radicalisation and militarisation medium.com/mosquito-ridge…
4/ And as Russia specialists point out, it was Soviet defeat in Afghanistan that gave a major impetus to Russian fascism, and the ethno-nationalism of figures like Alexander Dugin... medium.com/mosquito-ridge…
5/ And lest we forget, it was the German stab-in-the-back myth that fuelled both the Freikorps and the Nazis... medium.com/mosquito-ridge…
6/ We are dealing with a fascism regrown for the networked and global era. It celebrates all defeats of liberal democracies, even its own, and all victories for violent misogyny and anti-rationalism... medium.com/mosquito-ridge…
7 There's a lot more on this in #HowToStopFascism - out tomorrow - join me online at this event for more... howtoacademy.com/events/paul-ma…
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