{"id":50609,"date":"2023-02-26T17:29:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T16:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=50609"},"modified":"2024-02-26T00:10:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T23:10:49","slug":"wise-words-from-spanish-mep-hermann-tertsch-on-putin-and-the-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/26\/wise-words-from-spanish-mep-hermann-tertsch-on-putin-and-the-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise words from Spanish MEP Hermann Tertsch on Putin and the conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most incomprehensible things in politics is the support of some conservatives for Putin and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/26\/dont-forget-europe-the-conservatives-who-led-the-initiative-in-aiding-ukraine\/\">Don't forget, Europe: The conservatives who led the initiative in aiding Ukraine<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/01\/23\/ten-facts-right-wing-people-who-sympathize-with-vladimir-putin-seem-to-ignore\/\">Ten facts right-wing people who sympathize with Vladimir Putin seem to ignore<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Last year I already pointed out here how absurd it is to see right-wing people supporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/01\/23\/ten-facts-right-wing-people-who-sympathize-with-vladimir-putin-seem-to-ignore\/\">a tyrant who refuses to condemn the crimes of communism<\/a>, who has outlawed an NGO (Memorial) that investigated the crimes of communism communism and whose regime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/09\/17\/the-lie-of-the-russian-government-to-justify-the-soviet-invasion-of-poland-in-1939\/\">insists on describing the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 as a \"liberation campaign\"<\/a>, an invasion that was the result of the pact signed shortly before by Hitler and Stalin. And all this without forgetting <strong>the imprisonment and murder of opponents by the Kremlin<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/24\/one-year-of-russian-terrorism-in-ukraine-more-than-9600-civilians-killed-including-461-children\/\">its criminal invasion of Ukraine, killing thousands of civilians, including children<\/a>. Given these facts, seeing people who call themselves \"pro-life\" supporting Putin seems infamous and brutally incoherent to me.<\/p>\n<p>It is still curious to see that conservative people who accuse the Western media of manipulation, at the same time <strong>swallow without question all the hoaxes of the official Russian propaganda<\/strong>, a propaganda that is broadcast through the media. like RT and Sputnik, who uses lies as a system and who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/03\/05\/the-george-soros-of-moscow-vladimir-putin-and-his-support-to-the-radical-left-of-the-west\/\">he has been supporting the extreme left in the West<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On this subject, today the journalist, writer and Vox MEP <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hermanntertsch\/status\/1629833674328797184\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hermann Tertsch has published a thread of Twitter<\/a> in which he states the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"1. <strong>There is no better favor that conservatives in Europe and America could do to the social democratic globalism that they intend to fight than to align themselves with the fa-left<\/strong>, with dictatorships such as Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, the Sao Paulo Forum in defending the criminal Putin and his invasion.<\/p>\n<p>2. If it is time to defend Ukraine with progressive governments that do not like anything or are despicable, it is hard but always more dignified than <strong>helping the interests of the worst criminals and rapists on the international scene<\/strong>, no matter how many conservative flags they throw at them. his propaganda fly.<\/p>\n<p>3. The culture war in the Western world against the social democratic totalitarian roller can be won. As long as <strong>the conservatives do not fall for the propaganda of imperialist tyranny that would leave us on the very wrong side of a Putin who failed<\/strong> in everything but killing.<\/p>\n<p>4. <strong>The national and conservative democratic forces are essentially allies of the attacked Ukraine and in heroic self-defense<\/strong>, an example for all the softened nations of Europe that \"To be is to defend oneself.\" You cannot succeed in a just cause if you come from defending the worst.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Excellent thought, Hermann.<\/strong> I fully subscribe to your words.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voxespana\/46925571815\/\">Vox<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most incomprehensible things in politics is the support of some conservatives for Putin and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10373],"tags":[10367,227,10731,16153,7535],"class_list":["post-50609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-world","tag-conservatism","tag-hermann-tertsch","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-vox"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 21:27:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}