Russia's invasion of Ukraine hits just as flagship conservative conference #CPAC2022 is starting, & will likely dominate discussion. At Friday's AFPAC, white nationalist Nick Fuentes' counter-conference, speakers & special guests are already outright celebrating Russia's invasion
Nick Fuentes- "I am totally rooting for Russia"; "this is the coolest thing to happen since 1/6"; "UKRAINE WILL BE DESTROYED"; "I never doubted you [Putin], my Czar". This morning, he hints that he's inside #CPAC2022, despite being banned 
Gab CEO Andrew Torba, slated to speak at AFPAC alongside Fuentes- "Putin is brilliant"; "I hope the Globalist American Empire gets humiliated from all angles"; "Ukraine needs to be liberated & cleansed from the degeneracy of the secular western globalist empire"
Wendy Rogers, unhinged AZ State Senator speaking at AFPAC, celebrates Russian tanks & calls for their deployment against immigrants & BLM protestors in the US, throws in virulent transphobia for good measure
AFPAC special guests feel similarly. They want headlines distinguishing them from conservative mainstream, & outright declarations of support for Putin from the stage would certainly achieve that- but Fuentes is also angling for mainstream acceptance. Unclear if he'll go that far
Of course, much of the MAGA hard-Right, including Tucker Carlson, is casting eyes at Putin as an anti-woke God-emperor, but you won't hear it from the CPAC stage except in very muted form, which will leave a wide opening for AFPAC to exploit rawstory.com/steve-bannon-2…
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