Swedish journalist Kajsa Ekis Ekman says the US has shaped Europe’s fears, from communism to Islamophobia to fear of Putin.
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00:00Kaisa, what do you think? Is there a risk associated with the rise of right across Europe?
00:07Why don't we speak about the risk of far left?
00:11Well, because our topic for this discussion is the far right. And I'm going to put that question to Kaisa and let her answer.
00:17I'm happy to join you when we're going to discuss far left as well.
00:20Sure. We'll invite you for that one. Absolutely. But Kaisa, please.
00:26Thank you. Well, I think people, basically the population of Europe is being manipulated ever since September 11th to think that the enemy of the U.S. is their enemy.
00:40You know, we used to think that communism was our main enemy. The U.S. shifted enemy.
00:45All of a sudden it was Islam because the U.S. wanted to fight wars in the Middle East and Asia.
00:50And all of a sudden we had to believe that, too.
00:52Now we are made to believe that our enemy is Putin because the U.S. wanted to fight him.
00:56And now we are in a state of confusion because the U.S. doesn't want that anymore.
00:59You know, and I think it's really interesting how this anti-Muslim sentiment has been like artificially put on the European populations.
01:09And it's been done so in a very intelligent way because our far right parties used to be anti-immigrant in general.
01:18But after September 11th, more and more started focusing on Muslims.
01:23It's by that way they try to gain the votes of other immigrants.