Sweden has formally joined NATO as the 32nd member of the transatlantic military alliance, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality and centuries of broader non-alignment.
Imagine people in the US electing Trump, then 10 years later writing the same thing.
I mean, I would kinda get that, no? It’s not as though most people in the US voted for trump last time. Not even counting the popular vote thing, right, which is still pretty important, but like, people who didn’t vote for whatever reason, even. Maybe that’s because they’re not exercising their right to democracy or what have you, and so it’s still their fault, idk. I guess you could include the clause of prisoners and former convicts, who aren’t allowed to vote. I guess my broader point is that, seeing as how kind of, horrendously stupid and undemocratic the elections are here in america, especially at the federal level, I would not really expect russia, and the russians to be any better off. I’d actually probably expect them to be much, much worse off, so I don’t think I’d feel comfortable blaming them for their political system.
I also don’t understand why it’s kind of a controversial stance to kind of, empathize with people that are conscripted into a war. I don’t think, really, over ukranians, right, but empathizing with them nonetheless, I don’t see why that’s controversial. It would be like saying that all americans were at fault for vietnam, which is kind of obviously an extremely simplified and even somewhat useless perspective to have, on the historical factors that were leading up to that war. The election processes that went into it, the economic factors, the henry kissinger shit, the public pushback that helped to end it. Certainly I wouldn’t blame the anti-war protestors or the people who voted against the powers that be for the war, they were clearly fighting against it. I don’t hear a lot about any organized grassroots resistance against the ukranian war in russia, I think probably more as a nature of my westernized news consumption, I’d assume, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the case that there was some level of pushback against this war domestically, especially given the history of cross-pollination and cultural exchange between the two regions.
I’m also not sure that like, attributing war crimes and atrocities to a whole population or to the whole of conscripted soldiers is really a great thing to do, that strikes me as kind of xenophobic. I’ve seen that same sort of propaganda spouted about almost every enemy america has faced in the middle east, both true and untrue. Unless their military doctrine or military culture has kind of a demonstrated slant towards those kinds of things, then I feel pretty questionable about it. Those sorts of controversies don’t serve much to sort of, shed actual light on the core problems there, which is that there’s a war happening in the first place. I’m also kind of skeptical that they would serve to galvanize anti-war support, thus, serving to end the war, but I’d be more willing to be convinced of that.
In any case I’m not going to blame the russian people for not having a mass revolution or well organized resistance movement right this moment, and for not overthrowing their government, just as I wouldn’t don’t blame americans for the same thing. I don’t think that’s a particularly unreasonable stance to have, I think it’s realistic.
I mean, I would kinda get that, no? It’s not as though most people in the US voted for trump last time. Not even counting the popular vote thing, right, which is still pretty important, but like, people who didn’t vote for whatever reason, even. Maybe that’s because they’re not exercising their right to democracy or what have you, and so it’s still their fault, idk. I guess you could include the clause of prisoners and former convicts, who aren’t allowed to vote. I guess my broader point is that, seeing as how kind of, horrendously stupid and undemocratic the elections are here in america, especially at the federal level, I would not really expect russia, and the russians to be any better off. I’d actually probably expect them to be much, much worse off, so I don’t think I’d feel comfortable blaming them for their political system.
I also don’t understand why it’s kind of a controversial stance to kind of, empathize with people that are conscripted into a war. I don’t think, really, over ukranians, right, but empathizing with them nonetheless, I don’t see why that’s controversial. It would be like saying that all americans were at fault for vietnam, which is kind of obviously an extremely simplified and even somewhat useless perspective to have, on the historical factors that were leading up to that war. The election processes that went into it, the economic factors, the henry kissinger shit, the public pushback that helped to end it. Certainly I wouldn’t blame the anti-war protestors or the people who voted against the powers that be for the war, they were clearly fighting against it. I don’t hear a lot about any organized grassroots resistance against the ukranian war in russia, I think probably more as a nature of my westernized news consumption, I’d assume, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the case that there was some level of pushback against this war domestically, especially given the history of cross-pollination and cultural exchange between the two regions.
I’m also not sure that like, attributing war crimes and atrocities to a whole population or to the whole of conscripted soldiers is really a great thing to do, that strikes me as kind of xenophobic. I’ve seen that same sort of propaganda spouted about almost every enemy america has faced in the middle east, both true and untrue. Unless their military doctrine or military culture has kind of a demonstrated slant towards those kinds of things, then I feel pretty questionable about it. Those sorts of controversies don’t serve much to sort of, shed actual light on the core problems there, which is that there’s a war happening in the first place. I’m also kind of skeptical that they would serve to galvanize anti-war support, thus, serving to end the war, but I’d be more willing to be convinced of that.
In any case I’m not going to blame the russian people for not having a mass revolution or well organized resistance movement right this moment, and for not overthrowing their government, just as I wouldn’t don’t blame americans for the same thing. I don’t think that’s a particularly unreasonable stance to have, I think it’s realistic.