Ironically a lot of the American Right was actually radicalized by the 2015/2016 Syrian refugee crisis in Europe.
Tim Pool went from being an #OccupyWallStreet Berniebro to one of the biggest US conservative commentators after he saw brown people in Sweden. The Ron Paul crowd (who pretended to be "socially liberal & fiscally conservative") posted borderline "white genocide" conspiracy theories about what was happening in Europe.
Brown people in Sweden is "an invasion".
Russia invading Ukraine is merely "self-defense against NATO enlargement".
Don't let them pretend they are just isolationists. They explicitly support Russia because of the "white christian" racial identity politics they actually align with.
Tim Pool went from being an #OccupyWallStreet Berniebro to one of the biggest US conservative commentators after he saw brown people in Sweden. The Ron Paul crowd (who pretended to be "socially liberal & fiscally conservative") posted borderline "white genocide" conspiracy theories about what was happening in Europe.
Brown people in Sweden is "an invasion".
Russia invading Ukraine is merely "self-defense against NATO enlargement".
Don't let them pretend they are just isolationists. They explicitly support Russia because of the "white christian" racial identity politics they actually align with.