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This is enablement of russian genocidal imperialism.
Rather than taking a sober and realistic look at their actions and attitudes, we get this bullshit.
If you actually had to deal with russians, you would never in a million years behave in such a manner.
Be thankful you don't have to deal with them.
I'm all for locking the junkie up in a psych ward and using their trust fund to pay for it.
There is no rational interpretation of what Russia is doing but considering them irrational actors. They, just like the junkie, aren't acting in their own self-interest, not even close to it. They're mad. All I'm doing is giving some psychoanalysis.
Shitpost all you want, just don't act like you're actually being legit.
At the very least a strong majority of russian are genocidal imperialists (if not an overwhelming majority). The victim/junkie positioning merely provides cover for their actions.
They know what they are doing. They know what they are doing is bad and they will keep on doing it until they think they can get away with it.
That doesn't make sense. Pretending to be mad, to take actions that are to your own detriment, is mad in itself.
And so do a fuckton of junkies.
I don't think we're getting anywhere here. How about this:
That's Sun Tzu. Know the enemy. "They are genocidal maniacs" is not knowing them, it's judging them, it's defining your own relationship to them. You cannot lead them by the nose with that, you cannot manipulate them, you cannot outflank them. Judgement is not understanding, one cannot replace the other.
Might it thus, with that in mind, and if the goal is to defeat them, be helpful to understand why Russia is the kind of country that it is.