Also important to keep in mind that "support" is entirely aesthetic / propagandistic here. We saw under Trump that even the more unhinged and mask-off version of the GOP still follows the same expansionist strategy into the former Soviet sphere of influence that started under Dubya and was continued under Obama. The USA didn't stop supporting the Azovite shelling of the Donbas once Trump came into office, Trump actively moved Amerikan troops eastwards from Germany to Poland, he also buried the SALT II contract which made Russia increase their hypersonic missile research. The only thing he did that wasn't pro-Ukraine was the Burisma stuff around Hunter Biden, which is entirely irrelevant when he at the same time increased the systematic encriclement of Russia the USA has practiced for 20 years now.
The "pro-Putin" thing is entirely culture war shit. It operates within the same meaningless frame as the liberal hysteria about Russiagate, there is nothing behind it that constitutes realpolitik. Nobody in D.C. is an anti-imperialist who respects Russia's national interests. Some just practice performative pseudo-support to virtue signal their homophobia and transphobia, trigger the libs, and recuperate any and all anti-war sentiment on the right.
Also important to keep in mind that "support" is entirely aesthetic / propagandistic here. We saw under Trump that even the more unhinged and mask-off version of the GOP still follows the same expansionist strategy into the former Soviet sphere of influence that started under Dubya and was continued under Obama. The USA didn't stop supporting the Azovite shelling of the Donbas once Trump came into office, Trump actively moved Amerikan troops eastwards from Germany to Poland, he also buried the SALT II contract which made Russia increase their hypersonic missile research. The only thing he did that wasn't pro-Ukraine was the Burisma stuff around Hunter Biden, which is entirely irrelevant when he at the same time increased the systematic encriclement of Russia the USA has practiced for 20 years now.
The "pro-Putin" thing is entirely culture war shit. It operates within the same meaningless frame as the liberal hysteria about Russiagate, there is nothing behind it that constitutes realpolitik. Nobody in D.C. is an anti-imperialist who respects Russia's national interests. Some just practice performative pseudo-support to virtue signal their homophobia and transphobia, trigger the libs, and recuperate any and all anti-war sentiment on the right.
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