West don't have diplomacy since 90's, it's only dictate or be dictated. You can easily spot it with western diplomats being pretty shocked hearing "no" from global south.
Absolutely, the formative years in politics for all the people running things in the west were during the fall of USSR, and they internalized the idea that the west is effectively unchallenged globally. The world has changed dramatically since then, but these people haven't bothered to keep up. Now we see western politicians make one blunder after another because their world model is completely divorced from reality.
It goes both ways. The communist world will have birthmarks from capitalism. And the post-Soviet world will have birthmarks from socialism. Russian diplomats, no need to wonder: this urge for historical context is a legacy of a greater time.
Trying to get foreign diplomats out of their bourgeois metaphysics is going to to be an uphill battle. Not least because it's not just intellectual obstinance but also a fistful of intellectual dishonesty; a concerted effort by the greatest propaganda machine in history to descontextualise the relations. Best of luck to them.
I hope that in their efforts, they are forced to continue the same process at home and notice that the only way to greatness and happiness is along a familiar path.
along a familiar path.
Putin implementing reactionary policies: “That’s exactly what I was saying”
Are you suggesting soviet policies were reactionary and are being implemented by putin?
No, I was joking about conservatives acting like they’re just bringing back Wholesome™ values from the past that never actually existed
Ah that is fair. In the socialist groups I'm in, people are memetically calling this reactionary dream RTWL - Russia That We Lost (in reference to the crocodile tears you've mentioned)
