How the American Right Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Russia
Last week, before Russian threats toward Ukrainian borders turned into an all-out invasion, one part of the American media landscape questioned why we werent supporting the invaders.
Hating [Russian President Vladimir] Putin has become the central purpose of Americas foreign policy. Its the main thing that we talk about, the Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson said on Tuesday. It might be worth asking yourself, since it is getting pretty serious: What is this really about? Why do I hate Putin so much? Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him?
Interviewed on The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump described Mr. Putin as smart and savvy. Then on Wednesday night, as reports of Russian explosions across Ukraine rolled in, Mr. Trump repeated his admiration for the Russian leader. J.D. Vance, a Republican candidate for Senate in Ohio, said during a Feb. 19 podcast interview with Steve Bannon, Mr. Trumps former White House chief strategist, We did not serve in the Marine Corps to go and fight Vladimir Putin because he didnt believe in transgender rights, which is what the U.S. State Department is saying is a major problem with Russia. Mr. Bannon, for his part, hailed Mr. Putin as anti-woke hours before Russias assault on Ukraine.
The American political right was long associated with Cold War hawkishness. But in recent years the trend has shifted toward fawning praise for autocrats, even those leading Americas traditional adversaries, as well as projecting our own culture wars overseas. Where once Russia and other autocracies were seen as anti-democratic, they have now become symbols of U.S. conservatism a mirror for the right-wing worldview.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/27/opinion/ukraine-putin-steve-bannon.html
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(3,315 posts)We did not serve in the Marine Corps to go and fight Vladimir Putin because he didnt believe in transgender rights, which is what the U.S. State Department is saying is a major problem with Russia.
Russia is the enemy now because it invaded another country with tanks, bombs, missiles, and an army of 200K.
And Vance KNOWS that. He's deliberately being stupid because he knows how stupid the Trump base is, and how just invoking the words "trans" and "woke" will rile them up.
What a vicious little Trump-licking turd.
czarjak
(11,289 posts)Supporting sinners since forever if it suits them.