The woman who won a Pulitzer Prize for the 1619 project and was then granted tenure at a major university can't figure out why Europe is a continent...and you think it's *the right* that is so commited to culture war politics it has no framework to interpret global affairs.
Look, there's no shortage of bad takes that try to cash out Putin's behaviour in term of America's internal cultural fights (something I warned against in the thread below) but let's not pretend this phenomenon is restricted to the political right.
I have also had a take on Putin's aggression, but I didn't cash it out in terms of debates over wokeness or culture wars. I think it has to do with foreign policy weakness and refusal to use sanction on earlier smaller incursions by both China and Russia.
I may be wrong...
But I have tried to keep the lessons to foreign policy and remind people that Putin does not calculate according to the rest of the west's internal disagreements, or use the moral reasoning common in the rest of the west.
Again, my views may be wrong...
But I think thst Garry Kasperov (@Kasparov63) is correct in his assesment:
It was foolish weakness and failure to respond to repeated incursions that telegraphed weakness.
As I said in the thread I wrote the day Putin first invaded (quoted below) Putin is old school KGB trained in subversion, propaganda, and ruthless power politics. He wants to bring Russia back to prominence for his own aggrandizement:
Leave America's internal struggles out of it.
Putin is going to lie, propagandize, subvert, bully, and use military force in whatever way he thinks will get him what he wants.
Any other view is naive.
/fin
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