Seeing the GOPI tilt so heavily toward Russia is one of the most dismaying things I've seen in U.S. politics -- right up there with the Cult of Trump and the redefinition of good & bad to align with his sovereign will.
The prudential arguments for "negotiating" an end to the war on Ukraine are largely cover for having sided with Putin in …
Seeing the GOPI tilt so heavily toward Russia is one of the most dismaying things I've seen in U.S. politics -- right up there with the Cult of Trump and the redefinition of good & bad to align with his sovereign will.
The prudential arguments for "negotiating" an end to the war on Ukraine are largely cover for having sided with Putin in the first place. This position seems to be mainly the result of a highly effective Kremlin influence operation that targeted conservative organizations in the U.S., particularly religious conservatives, and persuaded them that Putin is their best ally in the culture wars. So maybe his methods are a bit rough, but what's a little polonium poisoning of rivals and assassination of critics when there's a war to wage against "secularism" and immigrants and LGBQ people? An article published in Oct. 2021 had the headline: "Putin Gets It. Why Don't We?"
A few months later, Putin-apologists scrambled to explain why the brutal attack on a sovereign nation was actually consistent with the notion that Putin is a great champion of national sovereignty and Christian values. Russia, they claim, is really fighting a defensive battle against liberal globalism and American imperialism, exercised through Ukraine in a "proxy war on Russia." (Since when is a proxy war "on" one country waged entirely in the territory of the "proxy"?)
The cynicism needed to sustain this view is on par with the moral nihilism required to regard Trump as a fundamentally good man who's the victim of a vast Deep State conspiracy.
P.S.: Please stay around long enough to see Trumpism vanquished.
- It's the depth of hubris to suggest that the U.S. should force Ukraine to "negotiate" with Putin, whose goal is to subsume Ukraine.
- Vance made his feelings about Ukraine and Ukrainians clear during his campaign for office.
- The morality exhibited by Putin and the False Prophet is best described as Evil. Especially that of the False Prophet, who broke his Oath to support and defend our Constitution.
Seeing the GOPI tilt so heavily toward Russia is one of the most dismaying things I've seen in U.S. politics -- right up there with the Cult of Trump and the redefinition of good & bad to align with his sovereign will.
The prudential arguments for "negotiating" an end to the war on Ukraine are largely cover for having sided with Putin in the first place. This position seems to be mainly the result of a highly effective Kremlin influence operation that targeted conservative organizations in the U.S., particularly religious conservatives, and persuaded them that Putin is their best ally in the culture wars. So maybe his methods are a bit rough, but what's a little polonium poisoning of rivals and assassination of critics when there's a war to wage against "secularism" and immigrants and LGBQ people? An article published in Oct. 2021 had the headline: "Putin Gets It. Why Don't We?"
A few months later, Putin-apologists scrambled to explain why the brutal attack on a sovereign nation was actually consistent with the notion that Putin is a great champion of national sovereignty and Christian values. Russia, they claim, is really fighting a defensive battle against liberal globalism and American imperialism, exercised through Ukraine in a "proxy war on Russia." (Since when is a proxy war "on" one country waged entirely in the territory of the "proxy"?)
The cynicism needed to sustain this view is on par with the moral nihilism required to regard Trump as a fundamentally good man who's the victim of a vast Deep State conspiracy.
P.S.: Please stay around long enough to see Trumpism vanquished.
I completely agree, Carol!
- It's the depth of hubris to suggest that the U.S. should force Ukraine to "negotiate" with Putin, whose goal is to subsume Ukraine.
- Vance made his feelings about Ukraine and Ukrainians clear during his campaign for office.
- The morality exhibited by Putin and the False Prophet is best described as Evil. Especially that of the False Prophet, who broke his Oath to support and defend our Constitution.