The Plot to Destroy Democracy by Malcolm Nance

Author:Malcolm Nance [NANCE, MALCOLM]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2018-06-26T00:00:00+00:00

The Czech Republic

Milos Zeman is the President of the Czech Republic. He is pro-Russian, is friends with Marine Le Pen and Nigel Farage, endorsed Donald Trump for President, and has ties to Hungary’s Jobbik movement. Zeman has justified the civil war in Ukraine and has denied that Russia has a military presence there. He stated, “I take seriously the statement of foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, that there are no Russian troops [in Ukraine].” Zeman had been consistently verbal in his support for the lifting of Western sanctions on Russia and was against EU sanctions on Russia. He was re-elected President in January 2018 with 51.4% of the vote. He won the majority of the rural vote by exhorting a populist anti-immigrant slogan: “Stop Migrants and [opponent] Drahos. This is our land! Vote Zeman!”

Zeman’s chief economic advisor is Martin Nejedlÿ, a former executive of the Russian oil company, Lukoil Aviation Czech. Lukoil was once the second largest oil company in Russia following Gazprom. Martin Nejedlÿ of Prague was also owner of Fincentrum, a financial advisory firm with “more than 2,500 financial advisors” on its website with offices in Prague and Bratislava. The firm has a history of alliances with the Kremlin.

The Prime Minister of the Republic’s coalition government is 63-year-old Andrej Babiš. He is a media and agribusiness mogul and the second-richest man in the Czech Republic. ANO is the Action of Dissatisfied Citizens Party that was founded by Babiš that holds a center-right populist platform like many European and American conservative right-wing groups. Its mantra is “Yes, it will get better.” Stolen from Barack Obama’s well known “Yes, We Can.”

Babiš was a tough-talking populist who oozed rough charisma. He was entertaining to people bored by politics and charmed them enough to vote for change even if it was linked to destabilizing uncertainty and no matter how nefarious its associations. Like Trump, he attracted the older rural populace and gained voters who had never voted before. Many of them had had enough with traditional politics. Others were impressed by his wealth without questioning his lack of transparency in corporate dealings.

Once again, like Donald Trump, Babiš “gamed” the anger of the Czech populace and inspired them to vote without having a consistent ideology; voters merely extrapolated the emotive sound bite they preferred, like fear of widespread immigration. Babiš steered this anger to the ballot box while they in turn ignored his questionable character of government corruption based on his misuse of EU subsidies. In addition, when the media investigated financial dealings of tax crimes in 2017 and his subsequent indictment in October of the same year, he had stated that he had been targeted by politically motivated disinformation… in other words, “Fake news!”26

Filmmaker and social critic Michael Moore had often called Trump a “Molotov cocktail” to the American Republican political establishment; Babiš was the Czech Republic’s Molotov cocktail, and Russia was behind his win, which garnered 30 percent of the vote.

Like Trump, Babiš was more liberal in his earlier years. He was

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