Keep in mind this is the sdf defender speaking,but I do agree long term at least Russia isn't an ally
RomCom1989
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Appreciate it,but I already posted that angle multiple times,so cats out of the bag on that one
Bob-Hur
The pope in question
It's also additionally ironic because the Teutons and the Livonian Order came from the west and they basically genocided the native Baltic cultures and what's left now is the germanized remnants of what they couldn't get
Ceausescu supporter who is against the intervention in Czechoslovakia but is for the one in Hungary because he's a Romanian nationalist and hates Hungarians
While I vehemently disagree with the soft pro Ukraine takes he has,I won't shed tears over them losing some bombers.
Yes,it was a reckless escalation and a dangerous development,but I can also say fuck the Russians for being so corrupt and arrogant that they thought they wouldn't get this type of response from a state which is the manifestation of the hatred the west has for Russia,a weapon with which to dismember and damage it.
You can't tell me the onus is only on the west for striking and not on the crass incompetence for even making this possible on the Russian side.
I'm going to make this into a semi call-out post,so I do apologize for my combative tone,but I did ruminate this over some time, reading your takes on Russia.
First,I will never tarnish the valuable contributions of Russia to the fight against the West in the global south. Their support for the DPRK,Cuba and Traore is commendable in it of itself. Helping Syria and making it into an anti Israel bulwark was also an unequivocally good decision and I won't ever criticize their position of helping those who want to fight the west all over the globe.
Now,that being said,where my opinion differs from yours is what they do in their backyard. I am fully prepared to get shit on for being the average ungrateful post communist state dweller east European for some of these takes,but so be it. One,they are undoubtedly still a capitalist state.
Now,this absolutely doesn't mean they should be fractured, demilitarized or weakened,but at the end of the day,I will always keep them at arm's length until something changes radically in their political structure.
Two,they, no matter how much I understand and agree with their position,they are still a direct threat to me and to my livelihood. I can agree with their position and I certainly won't cry any tears if they strike a NATO base,but they still are indirectly a very real danger to me.
This isn't some fever dream of a liberal living in the west,I live right on the border with Ukraine and I saw Russian drone strikes from my house. If this gets ugly,me and my family are the first in the line of fire.
Of course,this would only happen because of NATO jumping the gun,but while my logical mind can tell me who is really responsible,I,like any normal person would have a hard time completely avoiding thinking anything negative of the people bombing you,no matter how much you know they're in the right.
This point is weaker,mainly boiling down to me being scared of them if NATO goes haywire,but it's my perspective as someone who's as close to this disaster as one can be without having their lives in danger.
Third,they did something I can never forgive this election cycle and backed the fascist candidate. Before you tear my throat for being a Russia gate style eurolib, I'm not talking about election interference,but something they said about the fascist candidate. They had the audacity to say he is like Traore and that he would free the country like he did.
Keep in mind this is a neo legionary crook football hooligan piece of shit who makes liberal use of slurs and even threatened a member of the Senate with SA.
The sheer cynicism of that move lays bare to me the fact that they dgaf about the consequences of what they do and that the good they do is just remnants of the Soviet past and favorable conjuncture.
And yes,this was reported on by the native pro western news,but even I can tell that shit was astroturfed from one direction, because no Romanian knows who TF is Traore and what he did. That is not to mention their opposition to the cancelled elections last year. Yes it was a filthy PSD power grab so that they could try to re rig the election into having their candidate get into the second round,but it also kept Georgescu,a rabid lunatic who sieg heils with the best of them and has eulogized the "national hero" Antonescu.
Idgaf if he's the only anti west guy, voicing your support for this human filth shows that you don't give a fuck about denazification when the Nazis say they want to follow "Russian wisdom".
I will never disparage the conduct of the USSR towards Romania,with the small caveat that the Moldovan SSR should've kept the Bugeac,but the shit the RF is attempting to pull here now is quite frankly appalling and makes me seriously doubt their commitment to to liberation and instead makes me think they only want to split the world like a cake and put the worst kind of fascist adjacent buffoons in their slice so that they can control them like puppets.
Do I think they will invade us?No.
Do I think they should win in Ukraine?Yes
Do I think they should be a counterweight to NATO? Absolutely
That all being said,I can't see them as anything more than a useful enemy of the west,with a cynical foreign policy for my slice of the world.
I do not care if it seems like I'm trying to say they are at fault for this (I do not) and that they are the quiet supporters of neo legionaries in my country (they are),I can't get over some of the more blatant running of defence for Russia even when they fuck up spectacularly and let shit like this happen. It's nice that they hold up a lot of the big opposition to the west in the global south,but them giving their soft backing to the neo legionary candidate is a bit too much for me. It's clear they have a vision for eastern Europe and I don't know if I'm in complete agreement with it.