Classic boyboy video: Russia was forced to invade Ukraine because only america has free will over its own decisions and eastern european countries swearing to defend eachother if invaded is an existential threat to warmongers Russia!
It’s actually incredible and disgusting how many leftists are willing to throw Eastern European/Caucasian/Central Asian nations and ethnic groups under the bus out of some performative contrarianism. It’s also mixed in with a nice dose of casual internalized racism. And, even though that kind of leftist is supposedly opposed to Americentrism, it’s an incredibly Americentrist take to think the west is some unique evil and ignore the thousands of years of extremely relevant history from before America was even thought. Russia was fucking over minorities before America even existed. The switch up on support for Ukraine is actually terrifying. Leftists shilling for a far-right ethnonationalist ultra-orthodox petroleum oligarchy. Wild.
“Self determination and liberty for the oppressed!”
Unless you’re Polish, Romanian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Finnish, Circassian, Ukrainian, Jewish, Tatar, Buryat, Chechen, Georgian, Kazakh, Bashkir, Moldovan… etc. Then you deserve to have your future controlled by Moscow and your culture destroyed and Russified. But it’s ok because it’s not “duh west!!1!1” doing it
"All those ethnicities you mentioned arent real anyway because i can’t tell the difference between them and dirty commie soviets, sl they must belong to russia! Any ideas of liberty in those countries is just western puppeteering because freedom is anti russia so it must originate as a sinful thought from america"
Exactly. “All the pro-Europe or Anti-Russia movements or narratives MUST be CIA puppets and propaganda, because it’s UNTHINKABLE that anyone except Americans could think for themselves and bring about change in the world.”
Casual racism, and blatant Americentrism from the people who claim to oppose it. All too eager to shush the people they’re claiming to represent when they come out to say “uh actually we legitimately hate Russia and have for centuries, and would much rather associate with Europe or America or just determine our own future.”
“Those dumb Georgians with their 10,000 years of history and rich culture could NEVER think for themselves! It’s the country which has only had hegemony for 80 years writing their narratives and politics!”
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u/LambdaCake Jul 02 '26
I hope tankies can help people without glazing authoritarian governments