US leader Trump and Russian leader Putin, along with other far-right leaders, have never made a secret of their political plan, without pretense or compromise. Theirs is a fascist project.
In the United States there is a fascist regime that speaks of peace, future and democracy, these are the main words used to push the new far right. In Russia this regime has been in place for years.
Hanna Perekhoda (a well-known researcher, specialized in Soviet history) states: “The fight for freedom in Ukraine is intimately linked to the global fight against fascism.”
As the Guardian rightly wrote, Vance has called on right-wing populist forces to take power across Europe, with the promise that the “new sheriff in town” would help them in the project. Nothing must stand in the way of their triumphal march.
The repression of migrants, the institutionalization of misogyny and homophobia, the denial of climate change, the ruthless exploitation of people and nature, the liquidation of Ukraine, the deportation of Palestinians: these are the pillars of the new emerging order that is already taking shape. It is now as clear as day: abandoning the victims of military aggression, just as we have done with the Palestinians and are preparing to do with the Ukrainians, is equivalent to giving autocrats the ability to impose their rule by brute force.
This obvious plan of action is evidently hidden in speeches of democracy and progress and in this regard, the words that Fidel Castro uttered in 1992 resonate. A phrase that today resonates like a disturbing prophecy: “The next war in Europe will be between Russia and fascism, only fascism will be called democracy.”
The European far right’s climb to power has been a long one. Since the post-war period, European politics has been dominated by only two major groups: the center-left and the center-right. However, with the arrival of post-Cold War globalization, these parties have seen a gradual erosion of their popular consensus, which was based on workers’ unions for the center-left and on the church for the center-right. The incredible technological development of the last 30 years has also laid the foundations for more unequal, polarized and irritable societies. The very definition of truth has begun to falter with the arrival of the internet and social media, perfect places for the circulation of fake news. In this scenario, the traditional opposition between center-left and center-right has quickly lost its meaning, with moderate parties that have begun to seem indistinguishable in the eyes of voters.
In the United Kingdom, the far-right Reform Party is now the third largest (in terms of votes). In France, Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National could win the next presidential election. In Italy, in the 1990s, many were horrified when Berlusconi invited Alleanza Nazionale into his coalition. The leader of its successor party, Fratelli d’Italia, Giorgia Meloni, is now prime minister. In Austria, the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) won nearly 27 percent of the vote in the 1999 elections, tied with the center-right Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP). In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders’ anti-immigration Freedom Party became the largest party in 2023 and is part of the governing coalition. Scandinavia, long seen as a model of intelligent social democracy, has seen a growing legitimacy for right-wing populist parties. In Norway, the Progress Party rose to over 22 percent in 2009 and entered a coalition government shortly thereafter, before declining to now be in opposition with just over 11 percent. In Sweden, the Sweden Democrats, once considered too extreme (some of their original leaders were pro-Nazis), have cleaned up their act and, in the 2022 elections, became the second largest party in Sweden with 20.5% of the vote, narrowly edging out the Moderate Party. Germany has also seen a major shift to the right. Once thought to be inoculated against the far right due to its past, the country is now seeing the decline of the once-strong Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the rise of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), which pushed the SPD to third place in the recent elections.
A clear scenario, with a future written, prepared for decades, ready to unleash itself.
