How Austria became Putin’s Alpine Fortress

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  1. >Austria is certainly the EU’s soft underbelly concerning Russia

    one senior Commission official said, pointing to Moscow’s infiltration of the country’s establishment over the years.

  2. I traveled a lot for work to the Western Balkans, always through Vienna. I remember seeing billboards with ads for Aeroflot: 4 flights per day between Moscow to Vienna. I assume Austrian also covers this route. A lot of back and forth between the 2 places.

  3. People in business and finance have always been eager to support fascists, and if necessary even fascists’ mass killings.

    These Austrians are doing the same as what their grandparents did. Apparently nothing has been learned from their ww2 experience.

  4. We should be very careful with Politico. It’s owned by Axel Springer (BILD in Germany) and we know Mathias Döpfner likes to steer politics through his media outlets. At the same time, Politico has a pretty extreme US bias when it comes to international relations.

    It doesn’t mean that whatever this article says is wrong, but that we should always consider the source of opinion articles and whether they have underlying motives.

  5. Hungarian Irredentism. Austrian conservatism. Slovak Stockholm syndrome and strong propaganda campaign since 2014…

    Damn, Putin may cause Russian collapse but he might make Austria-Hungary

  6. Its all about money – but there is a difference between these 2 countries – Austria is one of the richest countries in the EU, meanwhile Russia is somewhere between the poorest EU countries.

    So its Austria, who is on the better end here.

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