And now, speaking of CasaPound:

I have no idea what’s going on in Ukraine and Venezuela. That said, let me talk to you about Ukraine and Venezuela.

I have no doubt that elements of the American deep state are encouraging the uprisings, and I have no doubt that local rightist elements are playing a part, but to what extent they started it, to what extent they’re just along for the ride, and to what extent they’ve got an actual capacity to take power if the current governments fall is beyond me.

There’s clearly a propaganda war going on to present the uprisings in an idiom resonant with the American public, in the vein of the earlier “color revolutions”, though the failure of the Syrian rebel propaganda to get the US street onboard (and that downright goofy Kony misfire) suggests there might be diminishing returns on that sort of thing.

In Venezuela I’m now hearing it framed as a response to sexual violence on campus which sounds odd, though I suppose in recent days rape charges have succeeded in getting Western liberals to distance themselves from anti-imperial forces, as with Assange and the SWP in Great Britain. (Now that I think of it, I wonder just why American and British newspapers have been pushing so many reports about rape in tribal India lately, and whether there’s a connection to the Naxalite insurgency.) God knows I’d be clever enough to play up that angle, and to the extent it’s an actual dynamic in play on the Venezuelan street I would be shocked, shocked if there weren’t major “keep the brown savages away from our white wimmin” overtones at play there.

In Ukraine - pff, who knows. I will say there’s definite sympathies between the Italian far right and Ukrainian forces. The Zentropaverse has been fond of the White Rex MMA stuff, and CasaPound’s “Ciao Dmitri” campaign, IIRC, was about a Ukrainian. Now, it’s possible to read too much into that, they clearly had a contingency plan for a martyr cult just waiting for a martyr. The guy wasn’t even killed by antifa or anything, he just fell off an overpass trying to hang a banner. The fact that there was a guy in Ukraine hanging banners in support of CasaPound is interesting in its own right, though, and I didn’t notice any comparable campaign in solidarity with Golden Dawn when they had members killed by actual left activists.