Saturday, March 26, 2022

Putin hates fracking. How much did he support US and EU fracking foes?

Good question! As I have said here before, I am pretty sure that the enemies of open societies (Russia, China, Iran, North Korea etc.) support and fund all kinds of political activists in Western countries.

Probably, it is also very hard for Western countries to expose these activities.

"“President [Vladimir] Putin and the Russian security services operate like a super PAC,” Russia expert and former National Security Council member Fiona Hill testified during former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment proceeding. “They deploy millions of dollars to weaponize our own political opposition research and false narratives.” Hill, a scholar at the liberal Brookings Institution ...
French journalist Dominique Reynie said on television this week that he's found that European environmentalist groups have been funded by Putin. ...
Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in 2014, “I have met allies who can report that Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called nongovernmental organizations, environmental organizations working against shale gas, to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas.” ..."

Fiona Hill is a Russia specialist and has written a biography about Putin the Terrible!

Putin hates fracking. How much did he support US and EU fracking foes? | Washington Examiner

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