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... The imitation election that saw him secure 87 percent of the vote has only served to underline the glaring fact that he’s in full suffocating, repressive control of his country
Putin... has the backing of most Russians with a current approval rating of 86 percent.
Which is it, Jamie? Only one of those things can be true, you dipshit
Nah nah, it makes total sense in a liberal mind. For context: I live in Russia and know a few people who went full lib over the years. Heck, used to be one myself. So here's how it goes: homegrown libs think themselves to be exceptional, an enlightened spark in an endless swamp of dull sheep. So to them Al those sheep support le ebil putler because they are deaf and blind and ignorant, but if Great Enlightened Shrugging Atlas was to be put in charge instead, then they'd shake off the chains of ebil sovok and become free and civilised like [insert preferred country of liberal in question]. And those who don't make it through the transition period, well, they were a ballast anyway. They see themselves as Neo in the Matrix, stylishly kicking ass of stoopid sleepwalking plugged in humans
Interestingly enough, our own liberals over here are the same, thinking themselves a lone genius in a sea of ignorance, despite the fact that their opinion is always the mainstream one over here and they never receive any real pushback for it. I think smugness is just a core part of liberalism.
So it seems, yeah. There's been some posts by comrades from various places, and it seems libs are more or less the same across the board
The author suggests defeating Putin in Ukraine is the only desirable course of action, what does that look like exactly?
I think it's a delusion. The only way the west could hope to defeat Russia would be for NATO to go all in and that would mean a nuclear war. On top of that, it's also becoming clear that US is now going to be focused on the election cycle, and putting boots on the ground would mean throwing the election. And of course, US sees China as its main adversary, so there is a limit to how much US is willing to commit to a proxy war against Russia. Without the US there's simply no chance of Europe being able to fight Russia on their own.
