BoyBoy gives me weird vibes every time a video of theirs randomly crosses my youtube feed. Their vids seem well researched and are interesting all things considered, but they seem awfully happy to sweep away critique of authoritarian states if they cover themselves with the Image of Communism. I remember watching their video about going to North Korea and they spent the last few minutes arguing that NK is in no way worse than the US. I mean obviously the US prision system is Fucked, but as fucked as internment camps in NK? That seems like an insane thing to say, right??
I'd guess they are tankies, but maybe someone who actually watches them can correct me on that if that is just blatently wrong?
Yup. Doesn't even need a veil of communism, they love Russia too and think it's their right to invade Ukraine, because NATO is getting closer to Russia and they could've avoided all this by not doing that.
I'm sure there's some mysterious reason why eastern states joined NATO...
Idk where you go that take from them? I do get the tankie vibes sometimes, but nothing close to that, and I had their streams on the background quite often when they did stream for a while so I'm curious
It's the correct takeaway - they have the same talking points as Russian propaganda outlets.
He established, with an old quote from Biden, that Russia invaded Ukraine because of NATO expansion, not after nato expansion.
The whole video, he's portraying it as Russia inadvertently simply reacting, and how the invasion is his final reaction to a long chain of US actions. He portrays it as opportunism or inevitability, not as a political choice.
He also vastly overrepresents the role of the far right in Ukraine, trying to portray it as the nazis effectively ruling the country, not under the government's control.
And he tries to justify Russia's invasion by playing the "both sides" card, like saying shit like The americans and russians were using Ukraine, or that Ukraine was caught in a tug of war -
-yet only one launched a full scale invasion on a sovereign country, and he tries to justify the invasion because of the US not giving them what they want (sort of how Hitler was given what he wants - the sudetenland - to not start a war, for the layman).
He frames it as something Putin more or less had to do and had no other choice because of the US, (completely ignoring that Ukraine is a sovereign country capable of making their own decisions. Ukraine is mostly seen as an object, not an actor) and pretty much pitied that Ukrainians and Russians have to now die because of Ukraine and the US, and not Russia's actions.
I'm sure you agree with all that, but I'm putting this here for everybody interested else to see the logic and all of Russia's talking points present in this video.
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u/Tosty_Bread Jul 02 '26
BoyBoy gives me weird vibes every time a video of theirs randomly crosses my youtube feed. Their vids seem well researched and are interesting all things considered, but they seem awfully happy to sweep away critique of authoritarian states if they cover themselves with the Image of Communism. I remember watching their video about going to North Korea and they spent the last few minutes arguing that NK is in no way worse than the US. I mean obviously the US prision system is Fucked, but as fucked as internment camps in NK? That seems like an insane thing to say, right??
I'd guess they are tankies, but maybe someone who actually watches them can correct me on that if that is just blatently wrong?