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Preparing the Battlefield: Fifth Column

Nadin Brzezinski
5 min readJan 25, 2022

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We are on the edge of what looks like a global conflict. For the last decade, at least, Vladimir Putin has been preparing the battlefield. China joined as well, and Western Europeans and Americans are at each other’s throats. Western Democracies are deeply divided. The United Kingdom has left the European Union.

We have a far-right that is getting muscular. This far-right in the United States does not recognize the presidency of Joe. They continue to weaken the country by refusing to take vaccines. This is not just the United States. This is happening in Europe too.

This is precisely what the rallies are about. This is what holocaust appropriation is about. This is exactly what Robert Kennedy Junior did, as he went on full Lindbergh.

At a rally against vaccine mandates in Washington, DC, on Sunday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likened vaccine policies in the U.S. to the actions of a totalitarian state, even suggesting Anne Frank was in a better situation when she was hiding from the Nazis.

”Even in Hitler Germany (sic), you could, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland. You could hide in an attic, like Anne Frank did,” said Kennedy, a prominent anti-vaccine advocate, in a speech at the Lincoln Memorial. “I visited, in 1962, East Germany with my father and met people who had climbed the wall and escaped…

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Nadin Brzezinski
Nadin Brzezinski

Written by Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB

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