Prior to the conflict, I wasn't a fan of liberals. But at least they were better than conservatives because they didn't want to glass the Middle East, protested against the Iraq war, made fun of right wing bullshit on Fox News, and didn't want to gun down Muslims or Hispanics. Or so I thought.
Liberals have gone full :frothingfash: and are literally regurgitating 1930s Nazi talking points about the Slavs. As I Russian speaker, I stopped going on most subreddits now due to the obscene racism. I've seen shit ranging from "Aktually, Ruzzians are not white or European" to "Lets break Russia up and commit mass ethnic cleansing". It's not even just Russians, I've seen a massive surge in racist posts about Chinese and Indian people since the war started.
Liberals are literally swallowing the most inane nonsense from Ukraine like "Russian orcs shocked at seeing toilets for the first time". And lets not forget the "Russian brainpan too smol to launch nukes so lets nuke them ourselves" posts all over :reddit-logo:
Anyone who even remotely suggests that we shouldn't arm and send 16 year old Ukrainians to be blown up in human wave attacks is called a Kremlin agent.
Amazingly, many right-wingers like Peterson or Candace Owens have better takes on the situation than liberals do. Does anyone have an explanation for this?
They were already primed by Russiagate bullshit.
As a boomer, once the Cold War was declared over, everyone was relieved the boogeyman had gone away. No one cared about Russia for years and years...then Podesta gave Hillary the Russiagate line and it activated the sleeping Cold War propaganda. I distincly remember saying "No ones gonna buy that shit, we were all so glad it was behind us and it's just so old fashioned". But I was wrong, my peers and the rest of them were like a majority sleeper cell given their trigger word.
I was going to say exactly this. It makes me think I have brain works, but Russiagate made Putin into a horrifying spectre for liberals.
The MIC cannot function without conflict, and america is nothing but an arms dealer. Once we pulled out of Afghanistan, there wasno longer a black hole into which we could funnel money.
If the US really cared about Ukraine or Russia, they would have taken action during the annexation of Crimea. However, it wasn't needed at that point. Now, the US needs a big bad, so it has used the marketing arm to tap into nascent liberal fears about Russia from 2016 and beyond.