Ukraine is viagra for Boomers and liberal imperialists and especially those Americans who fall into both of these categories and who write for establishment mouthpieces like The Atlantic.
“Don’t forget about Ukraine,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said last Sunday at the end of an interview with CBS. “We have the same values, we have the same color of blood, and we are fighting for freedom and we will win.”
Less than two months ago, democracy in America and elsewhere seemed to be drifting toward its own expiration. Then the Russian invasion and unbending Ukrainian resistance delivered a shock to the democratic world that restored its heartbeat. Writers and politicians celebrated a sudden revival of liberal values, as if the global rise of autocracy might be stopped in the suburbs of Kyiv and on the Black Sea coast …
When Zelensky spoke to Congress last month, Kevin McCarthy and Maxine Waters, who detest each other, sat side by side in the Capitol auditorium as if the bipartisanship of the Cold War were back. Members of Congress who routinely ignore one another’s speeches listened raptly to Zelensky, did not look away from a video with terrible scenes of obliteration and death, then rose to give the Ukrainian president a standing ovation. Congress has voted overwhelmingly to send more than $1 billion in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine; to call for the suspension of trade relations with Russia and Belarus; to declare Vladimir Putin a war criminal. By large majorities, Americans support the administration’s policies of imposing sanctions and providing arms (though Republicans don’t think President Biden has carried them out well). Even the American media has been transformed by the war: Turn on CNN, and you’ll be reminded that the network has excellent reporters.
Yet I worry that we’ll soon forget about Ukraine. It’s far away, and Americans have famously short attention spans. …
Go through each of Biden’s “essential democratic principles”: Today, almost all are actively contested, if not endangered, here in the United States. And this isn’t a contest of equals. While some progressives don’t see freedom of expression as an essential principle, nearly the whole of the Republican Party, along with its conservative donors and mouthpieces, has embraced or declined to challenge Trump’s ongoing campaign to destroy the legitimacy of the independent press, the right to vote, fair elections, and democratic rules. There’s nothing rhetorical or abstract about Biden’s appeal to a “perennial struggle.” If Ukraine is the front line, America is also a battlefield. …
But the most immediate threat to Ukraine’s support in the U.S. is an American political party with a strong attraction to autocracy—even to Putin’s Russia. Because of the war, some Republican leaders might now hope, like Charles Lindbergh after Pearl Harbor, that the country will forget their recent romance with authoritarianism—their acquiescence in Trump’s Putinist dreams, including his campaign of blackmail to corrupt Ukrainian democracy for his own dirty ends. But the attraction remains. The U.S. will never be a worthy friend to Ukraine unless the Republican Party purges itself of the poisonous influence of its Tucker Carlsons and Marjorie Taylor Greenes, and above all of Trump. This work might be assisted by Democrats and independents who force the issue with voters, but only Republicans can do it. …”
In case it wasn’t already crystal clear, the liberal establishment sees their current war against Russia as being a two front war against America First populists and nationalists at home. They want to spell that out for you. Their rule as a social class in this country is synonymous with “democracy.”
Democracy doesn’t mean what you think it means. It isn’t just a mechanism for resolving disputes between rival political factions. Democracy exists now to ratify and legitimize the rule of libtards. Viktor Orbán, Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump and all the rest of their ilk are on the wrong side of democracy.
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It is also a war against Europe. The sanctions will ensure that Europe cannot have independence from the USA. Now, even if Europe develops the political will to become independent from the bastard mulatto empire in America, they will not have the economic means. They will be dependent upon USA for energy and food. This was a secondary aim of America’s war against Russia, to prevent an independent Europe that would work in its own interests instead of in the interests of the USA. Twitter Macronists and post-libertarian retards like Greg Johnson who shill for NATO maybe do not understand that the USA is securing it’s stranglehold on Europe with this.
“Democracy doesn’t mean what you think it means. It isn’t just a mechanism for resolving disputes between rival political factions”:
Disputes between rival political factions are an indication of a lack or absence of democracy.
This is why the West censors RT (which is now unavailable throughout most of western Europe):
Gab/ASB Military News — Lavrov: “Our special military operation aims to put an end to the unfettered expansions and unfettered course towards total domination of the US and other Western states under it on the international arena,” he said. Lavrov noted that such domination is being built with horrible violations of international law. “It is possible to recognize the independence of Kosovo without a referendum, but it is impossible to recognize the independence of Crimea, declared after a referendum, observed by hundreds of objective foreign representatives, representatives of foreign public. The US imagined a threat to their national security thousands of kilometers away in Iraq, but, when they bombed it and found no threat there, they didn’t even apologize.”
The mainstream media in the West will not report statements like this — you can only find them on RT or other alternative media.
“[N]early the whole of the Republican Party, along with its conservative donors and mouthpieces, has embraced or declined to challenge Trump’s ongoing campaign to destroy the legitimacy of the independent press, the right to vote, fair elections, and democratic rules.”
Our press is legitimate and independent? Certainly, it is not independent of the corporate/left interests that have bought and paid for it. And how can elections be fair and democratic if you remove all protections for voting integrity such as voter ID?
Many of these lib snakes are true psychopaths. They can lie and lie without the slightest twinge of conscience. Their forked tongues just keep flickering.
“How can we be worthy of Ukraine?”
“Ukraine” is a fake nation, like the U.S. They are already worthy of each other. .
How can we be worthy of Ukraine?
Find a piano and play it with your dick, just like Zelensky did. Create some sympathetic resonance!
This is one of those moments, (there have been so many of late), when mockery is the best response: cue Wayne and Garth prostrating themselves in obeisance as they cry, “We’re not worthy! We’re not worthy!”
F Democracy. White middle and working class people in red state America are not in charge of a damn thing is this country!