Everything we were warning about for years, on Russia and on the rise of Russia-allied virulent fascism in the West, was ignored.
So here’s one more tidbit. The “intellectual guru” of Thiel, Vance and Musk, Curtis Yarvin, called in 2022 for Russia to conquer all of Europe.
Yarvin, an intellectual charlatan and a virulent fascist with a cult following in the Silicon Valley brolligarchy, has also called for the destruction of democracy and for the mass murder of “zero-value individuals,” which he wants
turned into “biodiesel.”
In early 2022, this repulsive creature was very excited by the imminent full Russian invasion of Ukraine. Yarvin wrote that Ukraine is an artificial country (a “joke drafted by the State Department”) that is in dire need of being sorted out by Putin.
Yarvin then mocked those who cared about the defence of Ukraine and issued one of the first “so why don’t you go and fight in the trenches then” taunts.
To understand the nature of this idol of the fascists executing a coup this moment, however, the following is critical. Yarvin goes on to give a Putin-worthy “historical account” of Ukraine as an inalienable part of Russia and the Ukrainian language as some vulgar local dialect.
But Yarvin didn’t even stop there. He advocated the abandonment of all of Europe to Russia as the only permanent “cure” (destruction) of the “scourge of liberalism.” Now this is something that a substantial part of the MAGA cult would support.
Yarvin’s fascist blathering has the exact same bitterness, sarcasm, vulgarity and inhumane contempt that the ghostwriters of the war criminal Medvedev’s posts on social media display.
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The greatest danger the world today faces isn’t Vladimir Putin’s Russia. At least not directly. The greatest danger to the world comes from an American extremist organisation that works 24/7 to destroy democracy and make imperialist autocrats great again - the Republican Party.🧵
If you believe Trump hijacked the Republican Party, you are delusional. If you believe there is within that party an honourable brand of conservatism that became marginalised by Trump, you are delusional. If you think Putin brought Trump to power, you are delusional.⬇️
Trump and MAGA fascism are the natural, logical and inevitable result of many decades of domestic extremism, open racism, embrace of fascism, flirtation with dictators and the worship of hate. It started with Goldwater and Nixon. It thrived under Reagan. It matured under Bush. ⬇️
Arguing Russians are predetermined to be genocidal criminals is a boon to Putin, who would gladly diffuse culpability to 140 million people and the wide expanse of history. It also negates prosecution: if you aren’t free to choose otherwise, you aren’t responsible.🧵
Arguing that Putin and only Putin is responsible is also an absurdity and, paradoxically, also a boon to Putin, who has never been known to be bothered by having the reputation of a mass murderer: a ruthless Chekist takes pride in being one and being known as one. ⬇️
So where does the balance of justice lie? It lies in the choices specific Russians have made. These include Putin, his entire security apparatus, his top military echelon, and every willing participant in the illegal war, especially those who have committed war crimes. ⬇️
Here is the simple, hard-hitting, inconvenient truth.
The minute Western leaders so much as entertained the idea of Russia keeping any of the lands it has illegally occupied was the minute the international order collapsed and Russia won its most important victory. ⬇️
The minute those who insisted on full liberation of Ukrainian territories were called “maximalists” was the minute three dangerous ideas won: 1. It is acceptable to change borders by force; 2. It is acceptable to try to annihilate another nation; 3. Sovereignty is not absolute.⬇️
It is tempting to think that this is the principle of nuclear-armed superpowers being able to do what they can and all others having to suffer what they must. Except this isn’t quite true. The new principle is rather more specific: nuclear-armed Russia can do as it pleases.⬇️
History “gave” us one of the most unequivocal, good-versus-evil wars known, with an aggressor of pure evil committing horrendous atrocities against a brave, proud, freedom-loving nation.
And we screwed it up.⬇️
Our failure would have been inexcusable if this were a faraway conflict with no consequences for us (other than losing our souls).
But this war’s diabolical purpose is to destroy the West by destroying Ukraine. This makes our failure both inexcusable and inexcusably dumb. ⬇️
To see that 80 years after Hitler, we have not only not progressed but arguably regressed, consider this:
The Third Reich went to enormous lengths to conceal its massive crimes even when it thought it would win.
Russia now not only doesn’t hide anything. It advertises it. ⬇️
Did you know that according to the latest EU report on corruption, Hungary’s corruption is much worse than Ukraine’s (and the worst in Europe along with Bosnia), while Ukraine is in the same middle group as 12 EU countries? ⬇️
Moreover, within that group, Poland is worse than Ukraine, with more opportunities for and fewer constraints against corruption. againstcorruption.eu/articles/uphol…
Here is the most crucial part: there are two kinds of state corruption. The first is petty, individual-level corruption of embezzlement and bribe-seeking. The second is the “corruption of the developed” — institutionalised corruption of the state picking winners and losers.