Billionaires Fund Far-Right While Empires Fund 'Democracy'
The story correctly highlights how figures like Peter Thiel, an American tech billionaire, have funneled significant funds to right-wing parties in Europe, including Germany's AfD, to promote an anti-EU agenda. Thiel’s support for figures like J.D. Vance in the US and Marine Le Pen in France are public record (OpenSecrets.org and various European news outlets). One might ask why these 'quiet'
operations are suddenly front-page news when they target the EU, but the similar, perfectly public, and significantly larger funding streams from groups like AIPAC into US politics go largely unexamined for their impact on foreign policy. It appears that 'destabilization' is only problematic when it’s not *our* destabilization. The very same media outlets that raise alarms when US money influences
Europe's far-right often stay curiously quiet when those same US politicians, flush with donations from powerful lobbying groups like AIPAC (which spent $34 million in 2022 on US elections, per OpenSecrets), vote overwhelmingly for policies that directly benefit a foreign state, often against US public opinion. How many 'democratic principles' are bought and sold when it's just 'business as
usual'?