Iran’s Soft-Power Offensive in Latin America, and How the U.S. Can Counter It
Teaming up with the anti-American left.
February 28, 2022
A foreign minister revives an old myth.
Before the Third Reich seized Czechoslovakia or invaded Poland, it joined itself to Austria. The Anschluss, as it was called in German, had significant popular support; to demonstrate that it was something other than a conquest, Hitler also had Austrian troops station themselves in Germany as German troops entered Austria, creating a “mutual occupation.” The Austrian foreign minister appears to have had a somewhat different narrative in mind during a television appearance last week, as Liam Hoare writes:
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When Leopold Weiss turned into Muhammad Asad.
“Where else should I be now if not the synagogue?”
The fear of being forever canceled and shamed is more apparent than the fear of betraying oneself.
A foreign minister revives an old myth.