Thread by @TTarkkailija

1/ I made a sequel to this thread because some interesting details emerged. The journalist who wrote about Finland's and Sweden's NATO membership for EC.
Sven R. Larson is a political economist and author. He was born in Sweden, but has lived in the United States for 16 years.

https://twitter.com/TTarkkailija/status/1597368269136084993

2/ Larsen has also worked in other media in the USA. Back in 2015, on Insidesources_com, he wrote that “together with Viktor Orban, the threat of nationalism is a formidable threat to the EU”. Finally, he wrote that “Europe’s nationalist turn is bad news”.

3/ Nowadays he writes for the European Conservative media. He sees Orban's politics today as a success.

4/ He has published e.g. of the story series ”The Subjugation of Democracy”, which is clearly aimed at an academic audience like Matthew Tyrmand informed us in CPAC 2022 in Budapest.

5/ The 1st part of the story tells e.g. about how Hungary's administration and democracy has been attacked by the leftist and Eurobureaucrats for no reason. Also in the second part he accuses socialists of monopolizing democracy.

6/ In Larsen’s opinion, the academic world treats Trump, for example, arrogantly and is guilty of academic misconduct. This in part leads to the subjugation of democracy.

7/ “Alternative values, such as freedom, are deemed false and antithetical to ‘democracy.’ In short, the Left is pointing us in an ugly, totalitarian direction”.

8/ "Brexit worked and the UK leaves the EU behind". Larson has written several articles about Orban's success in domestic politics and on the diplomatic front.

9/ An interesting view opens up when you look at where else Larson has written. He participates in e.g. for the content production of the libertarian MISES think tank operating in Sweden. MISES declares itself to be of Austrian origin.

10/ Its Twitter account has been silent for a couple of years, but was activated a few days ago. It re-started e.g. retweeting Paul Joseph Watson. Sven R Larson writes on the website of the MISES institute that “Sweden has been hit by 90 years of social democratic devastation”.

11/ After this, it turns out that Larsson’s writings (e.g. why Hungarian family policy is better than Swedish ) are published on both Geopolitica_ru and Katehon_ru/Katehon_com pages.

12/ Katehon is a Russian think tank led by Aleksander Dugin and Konstantin Malofeev (president of Katehon).
Some of the articles have been published in the same form in European Conservative and Katehon media.

13/ The editorial board of Katehon is "unique": it consists mainly of ex-KGB generals. Several people have later worked for RISS (The Russian Institute for Strategic Studies) and Russia's SVR (Foreign Intelligence).

14/ Malofeev is known e.g. WCF as a financier of the organization (Word Congress of Families) and the European far-right movement. He also played a central role in the initial coordination of the preparation of the Donbas military operation in 2014.

Erik R Larsen is a libertarian journalist who writes for the European Conservative media. He doesn't necessarily have a personal relationship with Tyrmand. Matthew Tyrmand (Steve Bannon's insider) is a member of the European Conservative Editorial Board.
europeanconservative.com/about/

The editorial board is responsible for what kind of journalism is published. In this case, it is not clear whether the sharing of articles with Katehon is the decision of the journalist or the EC's editorial board. By default, a journalist cannot make such a decision alone.

Libertarians often hold rather apologetic views on 🇷🇺. Supporting and admiring Orban's policy (also policy on RU-UA war) is typical. However, sharing publications in the media run by the 🇷🇺 intelligence and Kremlin propagandists is a pretty bold decision even for libertarian.