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  • This is a good thing, and the inevitable result of the west’s constant provocations and salami-slicing, encroaching tactics, IMO. At some point humanity has to fight back, even if it draws us closer to the brink of MAD- the ones responsible are the western imperialists, after all. And when and if they do manage to fully and properly “pivot to Asia” I hope China ups the ante like this as well.

    My honest belief here is this- the world will never know peace, until the collective west understands fully and thoroughly the full extent of MAD (not necessarily by invoking it, but by facing and being limited by the same threats they continue to hold over the rest of humanity). If the west had suffered even 1/1000000th of what they have done- even in just the past decade, nevermind the past 500+ years- to the global south, or even just to those powers that can and should defend themselves like Russia, China, India, etc… we would already have triggered MAD 1000 times over. At some point it has to be enough, and those nations with the means of making it so should ensure it. Each Russian life is as valuable, if not moreso, than that of those who support the west- same goes with the lives of Palestinians, Chinese, Indians, all Asians and Africans and Latin Americans and all those even in the west who stand against imperialism, being as valuable if not moreso than that of those who stand for the empire. And the only way the west will ever learn that is by the cold hard reality that they cannot make the same favorable and deeply inequitable exchange, that they have for hundreds of years, any more.

    Can it even be called a “pre-emptive strike,” when the western imperialist regimes have been striking Russia (and indeed, all of the rest of humanity as well as the working masses and all non-white and indigenous peoples including in the west) constantly with impunity for centuries? I don’t think so.


  • I believe them, actually. This is the same country which has children singing and cheering about the ongoing genocide in explicit terms, the same country which has them and their war criminal, settler families making mocking videos portraying starvation, r*pe, the slaughter of babies, etc. They know what they are doing, while obviously culpability is different for children they absolutely are supporters and even participants even if they are also victims of being groomed to be monstrous racists and criminals in their own right.

    And the truth is, Isntreal is not unique in this regard. The Nazis may have had the good sense to do things behind closed doors (somewhat?) but the history and ongoing reality of other settler states (and to my understanding at least to some extent with the Nazis) shows that the process of dehumanization- of teaching settlers to dehumanize their victims, to engage in the same crimes as the rest of society so as to create “bonds” (bonding over committing atrocities), is a foundational part of the structure of fascism, settlerism, and imperialism.

    Look at the Anglo settler-states’ histories, and it’s not that far back- a few decades/half a century really- where entire families and communities would get together for a lynching, even take postcards. People would play carnival games where they would attempt to commit bodily harm against black people. Games like “cowboys and ‘Indians’” are declining but absolutely part of this fabric, and the casual racism prevalent across schools in the west is part of this as well. Go further back in the history of the US (but still, not actually that far back) and you will find communities getting together to capture, torture, and brutally murder runaway slaves in public hangings, quarterings, maulings by dogs, etc. A rite of “manhood” in the imperial societies would be joining in the slaughter of various “colored” peoples, whether it be the “Indian wars” and countless little encroachments/massacres in the US and elsewhere, or joining the western regimes’ colonial infrastructure. (And an expectation of colonial “womanhood” would be weaponizing it against “uppity” minorities and sometimes/oftentimes even inciting violence and countless atrocities). You can see how it was part of the culture of western Europe, how it was glorified and celebrated as the “manly and adult” thing to do, to go gun down Africans, Asians, other indigenous peoples with guns and artillery whose range was far beyond that of their victims, or with machine guns against in the most extreme circumstances, indigenous resistance armed with swords and spears- but once the Europeans experienced how it was to have the other side shoot back- and be white- the facade of “glory and valor” faced the reality of what it had been all along.

    The legacy still continues as well, you can see it in the glorification of war in the US (and in truth, still across the west, but of course we brand it with slogans like “freedom and democracy” that have no connection to the reality of our actions and policies abroad). The most prevalent introduction to “middle-eastern,” Arabic, and Islamic culture (though in truth the religion does not matter, if anything we particularly brutalize and overthrow secular societies and back those who slaughter ethnic and religious minorities) in the west in our modern times, is as the generic “terrorist” to be killed over and over again in FPSes like CoD or (insert western semi-realistic FPS series here that isn’t set in WW2, or alternatively fighting “evil Russkies/generic east Europeans”). Or to be killed by the “war heroes” in our movies who show their heroism by going to foreign countries filmed in sepia tones, to label anyone resisting this foreign invasion as a “terrorist” and to kill, more and more. And the US celebrates this at most of its sporting events, it celebrates it in its schools, it celebrates it in its portrayal across mass media, etc, etc.

    I could go on and on more and- well, yeah this drew a ramble out of me. But no, I believe it. This is a settler-society that is still in the “early” phases (ie. the “slaughter the Palestinians and all other traces of indigeneity until you’ve established a secure lebensraum and a overwhelmingly dominant volk demographic where you can start slaughtering native peoples and “manifesting” your destiny elsewhere and tone down society for better optics at home” phase). The kids know what they are doing, they’ve been taught all their lives thus far to celebrate it, to embrace it, because otherwise the system of sustaining and reproducing future generations of such a monstrous abberation of a society starts to break down in some degree, the “foundational mythos” starts to break down (you can see across the west attempts to whitewash and rehabilitate their bloodstained history, etc etc). Many of those kids could watch Palestinians (or the other generic brown hordes) be mowed down, unarmed, in their schools and hospitals and homes, whether from afar or up front in graphic detail and they’ve been taught this is good, this is “beautiful” (mind you as noted that I consider them victims as well as perpetrators with vastly diminished culpability as mentioned earlier). And even those they live amongst, they are taught to look down on them, to beat and bully them and to treat them as untermensch, because this is what settler society is (and that reality, that legacy but also the ongoing systemic and cultural racisms, if somewhat diluted with time or whitewashed over for polite company, holds true across the west)

    The kid knew what they were seeing. Same as how most kids would probably connect the dots, if they saw movies and other media portraying the struggle from the other side, with Arabs, Asians, Africans, or whoever it might be being portrayed defending their homeland and being inspired to pick up arms and fight for their countries against marauding “generic white invaders in the military fatigues typical of US/NATO (but also the west in general).” Kids are smarter than most people assume (or more precisely in this case and many- it takes years of indoctrination which has to cover all the bases, for them to “learn” all the liberal, imperial, chauvinist hypocrisy, willful ignorance, and lack of self-awareness).


  • Honestly I think it’s safe to say that the west should have absolutely no say in dezionification, or the denazification which is still necessary in Ukraine, Germany, and across Europe. Decolonization, de-USAmericanization and the purging of white supremacist and imperialist ideology which is equally abhorrent and the birthing pit of Nazism and Zionism and other hateful ideologies, still is necessary, for all western societies, if they are ever to properly integrate and rejoin the rest of humanity as normal, peer nations.


  • Eh, the Isntrealis can choose peace, just as they claimed (but refused to offer the Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese, Iranians, etc) their victims could. They genuinely can, the Iranians are more civilized than settlers could ever hope to be in a thousand years.

    I’m not gonna cry for the Hitler Youth and SS brigades, staunchly holding onto their genocidal ethos, getting mowed down in their entirety. They can always just- leave. Or throw down their weapons, join the other side.





  • While knowing the motive behind the series erases any interest I might have in it, honestly I’m fine if they want to promote a narrative of “revenge is okay no matter what” or “pre-emptive self defense.” It won’t work out the way the director, or the west in general, think it does though. The majority of the world has seen who is real offender, the one who has brutally massacred the other from the start and constantly rejected and betrayed peace. The majority of humanity understands on some level what imperialism and colonialism feels like and has been and remains victim to it. Even across the west many are thoroughly disgusted. People know which side actually starves and slaughters babies and the vulnerable, which side actually acts like imperialist barbarians.

    Settlers can play these games all they want- and they inevitably will- but it won’t end well for them. And I can’t claim I’d shed a tear when it happens, I’d have compassion and work towards minimizing or preventing harm to (actual) innocents always, sure, but this is what they will have brought on themselves if and when the tables turn.

    If they had sense they’d stick to the dehumanization and denial narratives, IMO… though even then the hypocrisy and blood libel is blatant, anything else is simply teaching the rest of the world just how incompatible their mentality is with coexistence and how far humanity at large will have to go to wholly disarm and de-fang the imperialists in turn.


  • IDK, if you ask me, anyone who has the means ($ and/or skillset) could easily live affordably and with a higher standard of living in Russia (including in regards to safety) compared to much of the US. When you measure by actual purchasing power parity (PPP) Russia is 4th largest in the world, in terms of actual wealth (infrastructure, production, resources) rather than capital and in particular rather than hyperfinancialized speculation like is rampant across the west, the fact is that Russia is actually pretty decent as far as things go, and hilariously they’ve started further re-industrializing and investing in their country (and not just for the “war economy”) thanks to the sanctions and blatant theft of their assets. I suppose if someone wants specifically “McDonalds” brand McDonalds and all the other western treats™, it might be unavailable, cost a little more, and/or require jumping through a few hoops (though domestic Russian industry, Chinese, and other BRICS brands are happily taking their place).

    Honestly, it’s pretty interesting, and the western dismissal of Russia and assumptions that things are dismal like as if it’s back in the days of shock therapy is pretty similar to the dismissal of China and some other global south countries IMO (particularly in regards to the actual wealth/quality of life clearly experienced).