For those of you who are also at Gab (you're out there, I've seen the screen grabs posted here), these are your fellow travelers, these are who you are, and this is how far you've fallen. You can't see it, you think you're being Christian patriots, with your cosplay convoys and your FJB flags. Look around you. You've lost your moral compass.
US Extremists Have Picked a Side in Ukraine: ‘Lol Putin Is Brilliant’
Far-right personalities have declared Russia a beacon of anti-wokeness and Putin a strong ethnonationalist.
White nationalist livestreamer Nicholas Fuentes has made no secret of where his loyalties lie in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
“I wish Putin was president of America,” he mused to his 45,000 subscribers on Telegram on Wednesday morning.
Fifteen hours later, Russian forces invaded Ukraine. And Fuentes, who’s hosting a far-right conference in Florida Friday night, was psyched.
“I am totally rooting for Russia,” he wrote the following morning. “This is the coolest thing to happen since 1/6.”
“UKRAINE WILL BE DESTROYED", added Fuentes, who describes himself as a “Christian nationalist,” someone who thinks the U.S. is a fundamentally Christian nation. “I never doubted you [Putin], my Czar."
Over on the Gab platform,
its CEO Andrew Torba also expressed his support for Putin.
“Lol Putin is brilliant. Western Media, which is obsessed with ‘muh Nazis’ will have a tough time spinning this one,” wrote Torba, who’s sponsoring Fuentes’ conference, the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC), this weekend. “What he really means is Ukraine needs to be liberated and cleansed from the degeneracy of the secular western globalist empire.”
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Wednesday night, far-right personalities have declared Russia a beacon of anti-wokeness and Putin a strong ethnonationalist. In their minds, Ukraine is just a corrupt pawn in a vast “globalist” conspiracy.