> The shameful debacle of the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan and the coup attempt on Capitol Hill, which brought to light the deep crisis of American democracy, seem to have both vanished into the distant past.
Positing that January 6th seems to have vanished into the distant past shows this person isn't serious. I just plugged "january 6" into google. There have been stories within the past 24 hours by NYT, Newsweek, CNN, Yahoo News, MSNBC, the New Republic, PBS, the Guardian, CBS News, Forbes, Al Jazeera, and the list goes on.
ASSUMING, not even arguing, the close relationship between January 6 and the Afghanistan withdrawal is a close second in demonstrating the author's fundamental lack of seriousness. Zero coherence to listing these two things together without so much as an explanation and then tying them both to "bringing to light" something about democracy that wasn't previously in evidence during the last regime. What does an elected leader withdrawing soldiers reveal about a crisis of democracy beyond this author's apparent political objections to the withdrawal?
Back to the distant past point. Any reasonably diligent observer would know that both parties save their arguments about the last two years for the eve of the midterms. We aren't there yet, because the Republicans haven't done their final ad spends. Duh.
Instead, sexual freedom became a juridical matter within the nation-state and subsequently a feature of Western cultural identity; indeed, it became a so-called “Western value.” Today, sexual freedoms are the benchmark of the civilizational difference between the West and the Rest.
But what does this have to do with the war in Ukraine?"
Why conservative pundits like this guy have to equate "sexual freedom" with female emancipation I have no idea. Like it's the only thing that is given to women when they are allowed to choose their destinies? Absolute idiocy.
That one. He is a classic, old school communist romanticising Leninist revolution and declaring western cultural expansion some kind of failure, while simultaneously forgetting the premise of his essay which was that western values caused the war in Ukraine, rather than the obvious aggressor nation.
He also claims that west vs east recidivism is somehow NATOs fault, which isn't supported by the facts of Putins increasingly oppressive and belligerent regime.
In short: he is a "i liked it better before" fantasist, not uncommon amongst conservative communist apologists. No mention of the gulags that revolution required.
There is no point celebrating Lenin era LGBTQ social changes that barely lasted a decade. The wests have already lasted 50. What his essay is attempting is equivocation, giving Putin some kind of weird historical justification for murdering Ukrainians.
Agreed, I suppose that Ukraine constantly asking for arms and support is all propaganda by NATO. Or the fact we are holding back certains arms/support that Ukraine would love to have (no fly zone anyone? MiGs based in Poland?). Of course the West was 100% behind the overthrow of corrupt, vain, despot puppet Yanukovych. Ukraine totally wants to be a puppet state like Belarus, and the Baltics joining NATO is a big conspiracy against Moscow.
The West/NATO would of course like a buffer state with Russia. Even better, a buffer state aligned with the West and not aligned with Russia. Even better, one that hates Russia and has trained up a million man army to resist the Russian invasion and then represents a credible threat to a weakened Putin.
Ukraine has long been trod over by large invading and counterinvading armies since the Tatar/Mongols, Napoleon, Hitler, etc. It's a country with a tragic history of conquest and manipulation. I root for Ukraine because I think modern weaponry and a modern state would allow this country to stand up for itself, and it is.
Positing that January 6th seems to have vanished into the distant past shows this person isn't serious. I just plugged "january 6" into google. There have been stories within the past 24 hours by NYT, Newsweek, CNN, Yahoo News, MSNBC, the New Republic, PBS, the Guardian, CBS News, Forbes, Al Jazeera, and the list goes on.
ASSUMING, not even arguing, the close relationship between January 6 and the Afghanistan withdrawal is a close second in demonstrating the author's fundamental lack of seriousness. Zero coherence to listing these two things together without so much as an explanation and then tying them both to "bringing to light" something about democracy that wasn't previously in evidence during the last regime. What does an elected leader withdrawing soldiers reveal about a crisis of democracy beyond this author's apparent political objections to the withdrawal?
Back to the distant past point. Any reasonably diligent observer would know that both parties save their arguments about the last two years for the eve of the midterms. We aren't there yet, because the Republicans haven't done their final ad spends. Duh.