The amount of times my lack of support for Ukraine and my support for Palestine have been called hypocritical is astounding. So many people seem to genuinely believe that Russia just wants to take over and rule Ukraine for no reason aside from evil.

It's funny because for just about everything else, the average liberal will say "It's just so nuanced, it's hard to say you shouldn't support X"

But when you say, the causes of the current Ukraine-Russia war take more than five seconds to explain, the inner bloodlust breaks free and they start breaking down

it's very dumb because it's obviously a shit situation and like any normal human person i wish it wasn't happening but at the same time, ukraine's banderite government absolutely ensured that it would happen by outright encouraging legions of paramilitary nazis to do pogroms in addition to their own direct efforts to do ethnic cleansing through policy. but to look at russia as a country operating under its own rational self interests while also standing up for a targeted group of people who would otherwise have no international support would mean considering russia as one of many countries in the world and not a cartoon supervillain.

My rule of thumb is that if it's an organized group clearly and explicitly opposed to America then it is a force of good, stability, and peace in the world. I imagine there are exceptions but as a rule of thumb I'm likely to be right.

Do I know anything about Russia? Just that the average USSR citizen had as many calories as the US and I watched the movie about doping in the Olympics. Was I saying that I hope for a quick and lasting peace for the people of the Donbas region the nanosecond I heard they were being bullied? You bet your sweet ass I did.

Russia today doesn't strike me as... le good! and I'm open to learning more.

Mine is a political monopole. Everyone is literally Hitler