Boko Haram’s recent attacks in Baga and elsewhere have created 20,000 refugees in only two weeks. Those displaced will stretch the resources of Nigeria’s fragile neighbors who already face Boko Haram raids of their own.
Putin’s Russia and Germany’s Far Right are a match made in heaven. Just ask Marine Le Pen, who has been accepting Russian rubles to fund her campaign since November.
Backlash against rising immigration is boosting far-right parties throughout the EU, and Sweden is the latest host to a political dust-up over the issue.
Europe’s extreme politicians love to contrast Putin’s masculine statebuilding with the state of emasculated Europe under the aegis of American military control. Marine Le Pen’s 9 million euro sweetheart deal with a Russian bank only highlights the friendly ties between Vladimir Putin and the European far right and left.
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