03-06-2022, 09:42 PM
Well, here we are - finally, and sadly - in what appears to be a total war.
So much for the farcical fascism in the West (among far-rightists, I mean), this time around, with all its asterisks, and caveats, winks and nods - this is real people dying, day by day, hour by hour, in a naked war of aggression by a latter day, far-right despot with archaic designs on a sovereign, neighboring country (in Europe, I'll add, and also a fledgling democracy).
You hate to do Star Wars analogies, but here we have the sequels, both somehow smaller than the originals, and yet still in some sense actually more (maybe?) terrifying. Hitler didn't have nukes, after all. The First Order can literally destroy multiple planets in an afternoon. Putin can kill us all.
So, fascism, the awful but maybe inevitable sequel.
And just to say there was limited will for a fight before 12.7.41 (here, I mean), and the Civil War was going to end in a few weeks or months, and lots of people (ie Americans) signed up at first to fight...the Americans in the Revolution (before switching sides, same thing as in the border state of the Civil War).
Go ahead and defend Russia, I guess (I say this just to put it out there) - you have the First Amendment on your side. But here's guessing history isn't on your side.
So much for the farcical fascism in the West (among far-rightists, I mean), this time around, with all its asterisks, and caveats, winks and nods - this is real people dying, day by day, hour by hour, in a naked war of aggression by a latter day, far-right despot with archaic designs on a sovereign, neighboring country (in Europe, I'll add, and also a fledgling democracy).
You hate to do Star Wars analogies, but here we have the sequels, both somehow smaller than the originals, and yet still in some sense actually more (maybe?) terrifying. Hitler didn't have nukes, after all. The First Order can literally destroy multiple planets in an afternoon. Putin can kill us all.
So, fascism, the awful but maybe inevitable sequel.
And just to say there was limited will for a fight before 12.7.41 (here, I mean), and the Civil War was going to end in a few weeks or months, and lots of people (ie Americans) signed up at first to fight...the Americans in the Revolution (before switching sides, same thing as in the border state of the Civil War).
Go ahead and defend Russia, I guess (I say this just to put it out there) - you have the First Amendment on your side. But here's guessing history isn't on your side.