Putin’s plot to get Texas to secede
For Moscow's right-wingers, payback means teaming up with a band of Texas secessionists.
Nathan Smith, who styles himself the “foreign minister” for the Texas Nationalist Movement, appeared last Spring at a far-right confab
in St. Petersburg, Russia. Despite roaming around in his cowboy hat,
Smith managed to keep a low-key presence at the conference, which was
dominated by fascists and neo-Nazis railing against Western decadence.
But at least one Russian newspaper, Vzglyad, caught up with the American,
noted that TNM is “hardly a marginal group,”and quoted Smith liberally
on the excellent prospects for a partial breakup of the United States.
Smith declared that the Texas National Movement has 250,000 supporters —
including all the Texans currently serving in the U.S. Army — and they
all “identify themselves first and foremost as Texans” but are being
forced to remain Americans. The United States, he added, “is not a
democracy, but a dictatorship.” The Kremlin’s famed troll farms took the interview and ran with it, with dozens of bots instantly tweeting about a “Free Texas.”
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