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Forums - Politics Discussion - Austria shows the USA how it is done: 6-hour-long video of attempted collusion with Russia surfaces - Resignations and new elections

kirby007 on 17 May 2019

I missed anton aus tirol news



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kirby007 on 17 May 2019
RolStoppable said:
kirby007 said:
I missed anton aus tirol news

We'll show those Americans how fast we are. What has been a futile effort for them for two years will lead to results here in only two days.

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Mnementh on 18 May 2019
RolStoppable said:

The big news broke today. Unsurprisingly, this involves a political party that thrives on populism, namely their frontman and current vice chancellor of Austria, Heinz-Christian Strache. Link to the story in German:

https://diepresse.com/home/innenpolitik/5630294/Straches-verhaengnisvoller-Sommerabend-auf-Ibiza

The gist of it is that somebody set up a trap on the Spanish island Ibiza a few months before the elections in 2017. Strache was made to believe that he was talking to the niece of a Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin. Strache went into great detail how he could get control over the media - in particular Austria's biggest newspaper 'Kronen Zeitung' - to strengthen the influence of his party, and how a big donation (up to €250m) would pay off for his allegedly Russian partner by assigning government projects for infrastructure to a company under the umbrella of his Russian partner. Strache also talks about his intentions regarding foreign politics, such as teaming up with Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland in their anti-EU stance. Unsurprisingly, he considers all these things necessary, because otherwise Austria would be taken over by Islam before too long.

Speculation in the aftermath of this video includes topics such as Strache should resign and new elections are in order, because in the video Strache admitted that his political party gathered additional donations via an exploit which is considered an actual violation of laws concerning the funding of political parties in Austria. But all these things will have to be properly reviewed first. Likewise, our chancellor Sebastian Kurz will wait until tomorrow to talk about the consequences.

Naturally, the German media are bullying us poor Austrians and call us a banana republic in their own writeups of this story. Of course they are correct, but it still hurts.

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Peh on 18 May 2019

Someone won't sleep well for the next several nights.



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sethnintendo on 18 May 2019

6 hours. You know can't be any trump administration collusion on this one because they can't even stay focused for 30 mins.



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sethnintendo on 18 May 2019

Yep so serious actually getting articles on it now on Reuters and saw BBC article on google news front page. Congratulations Austria on making the news cycle.



Mnementh on 18 May 2019
RolStoppable said:
Mnementh said:

You are playing the Rol of Aljona Makarowa, right Rol?

More details about why the whole trick worked. Also, my favorite Strache quote by far.

"Bist du deppert, die ist schoarf." - Strache ist von seiner Gesprächspartnerin sichtlich angetan.

LOL. Strache makes an excellent Proll-impression, nice that he stays authentic and close to his voters.



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MrWayne on 18 May 2019

I wonder how this will change the outcome of the european election. The FPÖ is as far as I know part of Salvini's new far right block.

Edit: Also you Austrians always complain about how you're depicted in the german press. I only see Austrians complaining while at the same time joking about how supposedly unfunny, boring, etc germans are

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vivster on 19 May 2019

So even the most rightwing populist assholes in Europe have a spine strong enough to resign amidst a scandal. I'd say politicians in the US could learn something from that but they've been traditionally terrible at learning



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Eagle367 on 19 May 2019
vivster said:
So even the most rightwing populist assholes in Europe have a spine strong enough to resign amidst a scandal. I'd say politicians in the US could learn something from that but they've been traditionally terrible at learning

I would go as far as to say even parties in the worst nations in terms of government like pakistan would resign if there was sufficient proof that they "colluded" with their enemy like India for examole



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