Flynn's Communist Connections: How the General's Network Leads Straight to Moscow's New International Consortium
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Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who is registered as a foreign agent for Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik at $100,000 a month, has spent years promoting figures and organizations now directly tied to SOVINTERN — a new Moscow-based international alliance of communist parties that Vladimir Putin personally endorsed at its founding last month.
As I detailed last week, Flynn’s lobbying relationship with Dodik led to the lifting of U.S. sanctions and a $1.8 billion infrastructure contract for Flynn’s own family. Two days ago, Dodik was in Moscow standing alongside Putin at the May 9 Victory Day parade, where the two met privately on the sidelines.
The SOVINTERN founding, reported on by researcher Trevor Loudon, connects Flynn’s network to Moscow through two of the ten cofounding communist organizations: the American Communist Party and the Serbian Movement of Socialists, which has deep ties to Dodik.
The Hinkle connection
Jackson Hinkle, a 26-year-old online influencer and co-founder of the American Communist Party, was among the speakers at the SOVINTERN founding event in Moscow on April 27. The ACP espouses Marxism-Leninism and Xi Jinping Thought, supports Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and has voiced support for Iran, North Korea and the Chinese Communist Party.
Flynn has repeatedly promoted Hinkle to his millions of followers on social media. In March 2024, Flynn promoted Hinkle’s interview with Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, writing: “We need to be listening and more important hearing all points of view.”
In September, 2025, just a week after the murder of Charlie Kirk, Hinkle writes from his home in Moscow a long post claiming Israel killed Charlie. Flynn responded with “This timeline and set of statements have to be part of any serious investigation.” He tagged Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, and Joe Rogan.
Hinkle moved to Moscow immediately after Trump’s 2024 election. He was there last week to help launch a communist international organization that explicitly opposes America’s global leadership, which it calls “Donald Trump’s imperialism.” Flynn has never retracted or distanced himself from his endorsements of Hinkle.
The Serbian connection
The second line runs through Serbia’s Movement of Socialists, which was represented at SOVINTERN by Bojan Vulin, the party’s head of international cooperation. Bojan is the younger brother of Aleksandar Vulin, who founded the overtly Marxist-Leninist organization.
Aleksandar Vulin is a former Serbian deputy prime minister and intelligence chief whom the U.S. Treasury sanctioned for “corrupt dealing which facilitate Russian malign activities in Serbia and the region.” He has met with Putin multiple times and has advocated that Serbia join BRICS rather than the European Union.
Vulin is also a close political ally of Dodik. In 2023, Dodik appointed Vulin as a senator of Republika Srpska. When the U.S. sanctioned Vulin, Dodik publicly welcomed him “to the club.”
This is the same Dodik who is paying Flynn $100,000 per month, whose sanctions Flynn helped lift, and who also just met with Putin in Moscow at the May 9 Victory Day celebration. Here is a clip of Putin himself welcoming and praising Dodik. “It’s very important that you all think alike… we commonly advocate for a more fair world order… free of any external intervention.”
Flynn’s own words
Flynn has not merely amplified others who promote this worldview. He has stated the position himself on his own podcast last month, “We have to live on a planet that is becoming much more multipolar than multicultural. Those are two different words, and they mean entirely different things.”
A “multipolar world order” — a system in which American global leadership is replaced by shared power among rival blocs led by Moscow, Beijing and others — is the central demand of the SOVINTERN declaration and the core thesis of Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, whom Flynn’s network has also promoted.
In March, Flynn called a Tucker Carlson interview with CCP-based commentator Jiang Xueqin “the most powerful and insightful strategic analysis I’ve heard in the past decade.” Jiang’s analysis tracks Dugin’s framework almost exactly: in the very podcast Flynn promoted, Tucker nods enthusiastically as Jiang calls for an end to the “U.S. Dollar hegemony” and a new “multipolar world order” that is dominated by Russia and China.
Flynn’s Russia Ties Are Not New
Flynn’s ties to Russia long predate his current lobbying work. In June 2013, while serving as Obama’s director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Flynn traveled to Moscow and became the first American officer ever admitted inside the headquarters of the GRU — Russia’s military intelligence directorate. The CIA’s then-chief of Russia operations, Steven L. Hall, said Flynn’s desire to build a relationship with the GRU “seemed, at best, quaint and naïve,” adding that “every time we have tried to have some sort of meaningful cooperation with the Russians, it’s almost always been manipulated and turned back against us.”
Flynn wanted to return to the GRU and invite senior Russian intelligence officials to Washington, but Director of National Intelligence James Clapper rejected the idea. In December 2015, Flynn was paid $45,000 to speak at the 10th anniversary gala for RT, Russia’s state-controlled television network, where he sat beside Putin at the banquet table. These relationships proved politically useful — not to Flynn, but to the media apparatus that spent years depositing Flynn’s Russian ties onto Trump during the Russiagate saga, a campaign that paralyzed an American presidency but never produced evidence of a Trump-Russia conspiracy.
What has drawn less attention is what Flynn did after the Russiagate cloud lifted: he kept promoting Russian narratives and conspiracy-laden chaos ops to his audiences. In January 2023, Flynn shared a documentary called “The Other America” by Matthew Ehret — a Canadian commentator and self-described Senior Fellow at the American University in Moscow whose work has been published by RT, the Strategic Culture Foundation and other Kremlin-linked outlets.
The film frames U.S.-Russia tensions as the result of “three missed chances for US-Russia friendship” and is rich with narratives designed to make conservative American audiences view Putin as a natural ally. Flynn called it “well worth the listen” and tagged Elon Musk in the post.
The picture
The connections are documented in federal filings, social media posts and public events:
Flynn is being paid by Dodik. Dodik just met with Putin in Moscow. Dodik’s close ally founded a Serbian socialist party that just joined Moscow’s new communist international consortium. Flynn has longstanding ties with Russian intelligence going back 13 years. Flynn has repeatedly promoted the co-founder of the American Communist Party that also joined that same international. And Flynn is openly advocating for the “multipolar world order” that all of these actors are working to build.
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