Not sure how countries can regret anything, but as a Russian I’ve been regretting Putin for the last 18 years since I was old enough to understand politics a bit.
How do you feel watching it all happen in Hungary, US,
… Italy (we’ll see, depending on US backing), Venezuela, Turkey on the way too I guess and looming in UK/DE/FR. It’s spreading like a contagion in very different societies with different inequalities, safety nets, work cultures and subgroups…I blame the social media format for favouring illiberal ideas through the way it was engineered…
As we know from many credible reports, Russia directly supported the raise of populism and polarization of societies in many countries. There are Russian traces in Brexit, AfD raise, USA elections in 2016 and 2024, etc.
What I see currently in the USA reminds strongly of what happened in Russian politics across the last 3 decades, but squished into months, not even years.
So yeah, I’m worried. But I also hope that once Putin is gone, many authoritarian political forces would fold like a house of cards.
Well let’s be clear. Far too many of us do. Problematically, most of them are far too insulated from reality to understand or care. They just want what they want and fuck anyone else.
I didn’t, yet I still can’t wrap my hand around what my people has been doing since 24.02.2022, and my mind goes into the past asking what coould’ve I done to prevent this to no result.
I have the impression that, not instantly, but in a couple of years, their two countries will be regretting all this.
Not sure how countries can regret anything, but as a Russian I’ve been regretting Putin for the last 18 years since I was old enough to understand politics a bit.
Yeah yeah, and yet I didn’t stop him, I know.
At least you’re aware, and not here gas lighting us.
How do you feel watching it all happen in Hungary, US,
… Italy (we’ll see, depending on US backing), Venezuela, Turkey on the way too I guess and looming in UK/DE/FR. It’s spreading like a contagion in very different societies with different inequalities, safety nets, work cultures and subgroups…I blame the social media format for favouring illiberal ideas through the way it was engineered…
I feel badly, of course, and have 2 observations.
So yeah, I’m worried. But I also hope that once Putin is gone, many authoritarian political forces would fold like a house of cards.
I’m sure that many of their peoples already do
Regretting implies we ever supported it
Well let’s be clear. Far too many of us do. Problematically, most of them are far too insulated from reality to understand or care. They just want what they want and fuck anyone else.
I didn’t, yet I still can’t wrap my hand around what my people has been doing since 24.02.2022, and my mind goes into the past asking what coould’ve I done to prevent this to no result.
No, you could have regretted it already when it happened.
Have you seen the polling in the US? He’s trying to gin up a literal drug war for a reason.
So you’re saying the invasion in Venezuela is only another item in the propaganda toolbox?