The far-right outrage about supporting Ukraine is because this war is a "hard test" of their ideology
In their political cosmology, the West is supposed to fail, because they've reached some "decadent" stage of history and are therefore supposed to fall to "hard men"
In their political cosmology, the West is supposed to fail, because they've reached some "decadent" stage of history and are therefore supposed to fall to "hard men"
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1626736360743931909
They're throwing a temper tantrum because if Russia - a country of supposedly authentic people living traditionally, "uncorrupted" by the values of liberalism and pluralism - actually loses, then their entire worldview is called into question
The far right has a teleological view of history, where "decadence" ultimately loses and a supposed "order" is restored by a "pure" strongman, whose victory will shatter confidence in political and social liberalism once and for all
A world where Russia loses against Ukraine is a world where that kind of teleology is manifestly untenable!
Deep down, they know Russia is losing. They know that Western support to Ukraine is what makes it so. So they're trying their very hardest to make it stop!
Deep down, they know Russia is losing. They know that Western support to Ukraine is what makes it so. So they're trying their very hardest to make it stop!
The ultimate irony is that the person who the far right hold up as the "hard man" - V. V. Putin - is the softest man of all. He still hasn't committed to a full mobilization, instead of a Great Patriotic War, he insists on a "Special Military Operation"
Putin still hasn't visited soldiers at the front. He's mostly ensconced in the usual places, engaged in the same modes of living, as before the war.
This isn't "hardness," this is callously throwing away the lives of your people, to feed your own ego, your own desires.
This isn't "hardness," this is callously throwing away the lives of your people, to feed your own ego, your own desires.
In reality, Zelensky has been the one to embody the supposedly masculine virtues that they desperately try to project onto Putin.
He didn't abandon Kyiv in its most desperate hour
Not only has he visited soldiers, he visited them in Bakhmut, mere meters from the line of contact
He didn't abandon Kyiv in its most desperate hour
Not only has he visited soldiers, he visited them in Bakhmut, mere meters from the line of contact
The fact that an actor, an occasionally genderbending Jew (*gasp*), is manifestly more "manly" than Putin makes them extremely uncomfortable 
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