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Marion Le Pen, who addresses #CPAC tmrw right after @VP Pence, has some conspicuously dreadful Russian pals—eg Duma deputy and all-purpose nutter Yev.Fyodorov 1/
You may remember seeing Fyodorov’s telegenic staffer Maria Kostonova in 2016 flaunting her support for (surprise) Donald Trump 2/
But perhaps the most creepy thing is Le Pen’s views on Russia 3/
In this March 2017 TASS interview Le Pen attacked the EU for ignoring violence in #Ukraine that was stoked from abroad (ie by the US) tass.ru/opinions/inter… 4/
Evoking candidate Trump, Le Pen called for recognition of the Russian annexation of Crimea 5/
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Le Pen in this interview also endorsed the removal of sanctions on Russia 6/
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Bears repeating: the Kremlin cares more about throwing the US into political chaos than covering up Trump’s misdeeds. Peskov just confirmed the gist of the Mueller/Cohen plea deal sputniknews.com/russia/2018120…
Peskov rather curiously throws out an intriguing new tidbit: Cohen’s Jan16 email to the Kremlin about the Moscow Project contained a request for a meeting with Putin’s then chief of staff, Sergei Ivanov 2/
Ivanov, a longtime Putin friend/associate from their KGB days in the late 1970s, was arguably the second most powerful person in Russia at the time of the 2016 election 3/
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Public service reminder: the US Intelligence Community will pass judgement within 45 days after Election Day about the extent of any foreign interference. whitehouse.gov/presidential-a… 1/
Once the Intelligence Community renders its verdict, it will be up to Secretaries Pompeo and Mnuchin, and, ultimately, Trump himself to decide on possible sanctions/penalties against those responsible (within 30 days per the E.O. issued on Sept 12 2018). 2/
Articles like this one by @kevincollier suggest that the famed Russian Troll Factory is employing rather rudimentary tactics to hide its tracks during the US midterm elections (eg using VPNs, working on social media during US business hours) buzzfeednews.com/article/kevinc… 3/
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How's the Kremlin reacting to Trump's foolish withdrawal from the #INFTreaty? Three of Russia's sharpest strategic minds--Andrei Kortunov, @DmitriTrenin & Alexei Arbatov weigh in carnegie.ru/commentary/775…, carnegie.ru/commentary/775…, carnegie.ru/commentary/775…
Kortunov: "[R]emoving the centrality of strategic arms control not only deprives the U.S.-Russia relationship of its special status in global politics, but also drastically reduces both countries’ importance to one another." 2/
Kortunov: "If the U.S. and Russia are no longer willing to give up 1 or 2 types of delivery vehicles, what can they rightfully ask of other members of the int'l community? It is quite possible that the next nuclear nonproliferation Review Conference will also be the last one." 3/
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BREAKING: The White House has said that US President #Trump is canceling his upcoming South America trip to remain in the US "to oversee the American response to Syria." - @NBCNews
This sounds like the US is planning to strike #Syria and Trump will remain in the US to closely monitor responses by #Russia. This is terrible.
BREAKING - British forces are now mobilizing at their bases in #Cyprus for strikes against #Syria. It appears very likely that the US, France and U.K. will strike Syria in the next 24 hours. This is dreadful.
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This!
As @theresa_may tells @HouseofCommons it's 'highly likely' Moscow ordered the attack on former Russian spy in Salisbury & most MPs show support to HMG to take strong action against Russia together with West & EU...
Remember this from @Nigel_Farage?
theguardian.com/politics/2014/…
What's the common point between:
- Farage: theguardian.com/politics/2014/…
- Le Pen: ft.com/content/010eec…
- Germany's AfD: time.com/4955503/german…
- Holland's Geert Wilders: forbes.com/sites/melikkay…
- Italy's Lega Nord: ft.com/content/0d33d2…
- Hungary's Orban: thedailybeast.com/how-putins-usi…
European far-right parties & their populist leaders love the idea they are the real & only patriots. Usually great orators, they focus on negative emotions: fear, resentment, nostalgia of a time that never was. But ask them about their relationship with Russia and they go silent!
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#UsToo panelist at CPAC. "Nothing has been worse for women than the hookup culture and abortion, which enables it." Crowd applauds.
Mona Charen says at CPAC she's disappointed in Republicans for backing "credibly accused child molester" Roy Moore. "You cannot claim that you stand for women and put up with that."

Crowd member yells: "Not true! Not true! Not true!"

Smattering of boos and applause.
"Prove it!" yells another CPAC crowd member.
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Marion Le Pen takes the stage at CPAC.
MARION LE PEN: "Our freedom is now in the hands of the European Union."

CPAC CROWD: Boooooooo
Marion Le Pen draws cheers from the CPAC crowd with this line:

"I want America first for the American people. I want Britain first for the British people. And I want France first for the French people."
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[1] De christendemocratische #ÖVP van Sebastian Kurz werd de grootste partij bij de verkiezingen in #Oostenrijk op 15 oktober 2017. Maar ook de rechtse #FPÖ van Heinz-Christian Strache, de Oostenrijkse evenknie van de #PVV, boekte verkiezingswinst. telegraaf.nl/nieuws/812684/…
[2] Strache (#FPÖ) en Wilders (#PVV) hebben al langere tijd goede banden. Samen met o.a. Front National (#FN) van Marine le Pen en vormen FPÖ en PVV de #ENF-fractie in het Europees parlement.

nieuws.nl/algemeen/20130…

europa-nu.nl/id/vjutef4bpfw…
[3] Na de verkiezingen deed #Kurz wat hij moest doen: hij formeerde een rechts kabinet van #ÖVP en #FPÖ, in het belang van #Oostenrijk.
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Procès de "la voiture incendiée quai de Valmy": 3e et dernière journée devant la 16e chambre du TGI de Paris #VoitureBrûlée LT⬇️
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