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BackOld3468 t1_jac00xp wrote

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This is an issue not only for US. If Europe hasn't unveil them yet it means they have deep roots up here.

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TheseLipsSinkShips t1_jac141c wrote

Agreed… France Germany Hungary… Russia had been busy spreading their authoritarian agenda against democracy. I honestly don’t understand why people think they would be better off.

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BackOld3468 t1_jac1a7z wrote

Agree, UK should be a good lesson. Nevertheless, there are still protests, proving the situation is bad... Like really bad

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SerpentineLogic t1_jac745d wrote

Austria in particular, for some reason

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BackOld3468 t1_jacbfou wrote

Well, this reason I think is a well known reason. Austria is considered russia's trojan horse at the heart of Europe for pretty long time now

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InBetweenSeen t1_jacwqe7 wrote

The reason is the same as for why the US, UK and Germany have a huge population of agents in Austria - because they never left after WWII and Austria doesn't have the resources to kick them out or the interest to fight with all those countries.

Austria-Hungary and Russia used to have the biggest secret services in Europe, after WWI the infrastructure in Vienna was almost immediately used by the west to spy on eastern Europe, during WWII by the Nazis and since Austria's occupation "legally" by everyone.

And Western services are very happy to spy on Russia from a rather save place, that's why the US has been putting in effort to warm up their relationship to Austria in the past years instead of piling on pressure. They are well aware of the situation in Vienna, their own agents help creating it after all.

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