• Optional@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    MAGA and russia are aligned, yes. Pre-trump, in America it was the NRA, evangelical “Christianity”, and Fox News. All of which have analogues in Canada and all of which have been gunning for the same result ever since Brexit. Calexit, Texit and others were years ahead of Alberta and all directly connected to russia.

    “America is the biggest contributor” is more obfuscating than relevant. Alberta’s MCGA turn would have happened either way. It happened in New Zealand. They’re working on Germany. Is America behind those? Insofar as trump and his fascist toadies, or big oil are part of it, yes, but the direction and planning is all russia.

    It’s beyond debate. It’s been proven for years already.

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      E: I did not doenvote

      Those organizations you mention - Fox, and I’ll extend the list to the rest of the large right media network, NGOs and think tanks like The Heritage Foundation, CATO and so on - they are not some directionless NPC orgs that serve and bankroll Russia’s direction. This kind of interpretation is ahistoric and not consistent with the material interests behind them. Look up their history, who and why created them. They were created by the American owner class following the leftward shift under FDR that took a lot of owner class money and gave it to the peasants, with the express purpose of moving the country back to a non-dustributive right position. Any current alignment with Russia is tangential and merely tactical and that’s a pretty recent phenomena, given some are over half a century old. The MAGA / Trump movement is also not fundamental to this, they’re the latest political face of it. They did not exist when the same interests pushed the US to destroy Iraq. They’ve been openly giving American governments direcrion (e.g. Mandate for Government which Reagan proudly imolemented) since Reagan if not before.

      E2: BTW I don’t disagree that MCGA would’ve happened without American involvement. It would have happened without any external involvement. There have been internal interests for at least 50 years that believe Alberta is getting shortchanged by Canada through equalization payments and other other means. America is supercharging this pre-existing condition for their own material interests - extracting resources for cheaper.