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Putin’s Pariah Status Isn’t Slowing His Copycats in Europe
From Spain to Italy, the ranks of far-right personalities and parties continue to expand, posing a risk to the current unity over the war in Ukraine.
Abascal has borrowed heavily from Trump.
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Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine has focused Europe’s attention on external threats to its security. A potentially more insidious danger exists within, in Europe’s swelling ranks of Putinist far-right personalities and parties.
Even though she lost the French elections, Marine Le Pen demonstrated with her unprecedented vote count the growing potency of one of Putin’s chief allies in Europe. Another of his admirers, Hungarian Prime Minister Víktor Orban, recently won re-election in a landslide.