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Donald Trump’s administration is planning to spend $4 million to bolster right-wing media in Europe, part of a package of at least $25 million for civil society groups working on conservative causes in the region, according to four people familiar with the funding.
The grants risk deepening tensions between the Trump administration and European governments, some of which have already accused Washington of interfering in their domestic politics.
The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) says the funding is meant to strengthen transatlantic ties and promote free speech. It comes as European countries prepare for elections over the next couple of years, and as the Trump administration openly backs Europe’s populist right-wing and far-right parties.
You get it. It’s so obvious, yet most of the left doesn’t seem to get it. But maybe it’s influence operations making us think we are a minority.
I’ve been in this shit since the Iraq War started.
It’s also why I’ve given up on the US left in lots of ways - I started getting ready to leave the US when Bernie refused to knock Biden out in 2020 in the last debate. And left as Biden kept his promise . . .