Because even great people have blindspots.
Horton is treating nations voluntarily joining NATO as "expansion", defensive missile systems as a provocation, and the usual flexing as one-sided harassment. Russia has violated airspace from Finland
to goddamn Portugal.
What the actual hell was Russia doing flexing nuts in the doormat of Europe?
I like Horton. But he'll call out American flexing while ignoring that Russia and China do the exact same. For the most part, my experience listening to Horton was regarding countries that were never a credible threat but the CIA painted a target over them. In this case, the opposing side has their own CIA equivalents, their own ops, their own media, etc. and this gets downplayed.
I know it might be strange, but this conflict forced me to face the fact that sometimes it really be your own niggas. All the people who resisted the vaccine for example are now simping for Russia. Which also released their own spike protein vaccine. These people aren't thinking, they're just swallowing whatever propaganda runs counter to Western propaganda. I think this is dangerous. The supposed "free thinkers" are easily manipulated.
Before this conflict I actually kind of believed the right sector Maidan sniper theories. I looked it up what the source was and it was literally Sergey Lavrov, based on a phone call that talked about a rumor someone else had heard, and who didn't mention right sector once. We're talking about "dude trust me" levels of sourcing. And I fucking fell for it because people "on my side" talked about it and I trusted them. Now I'm going with my gut, what I know and what I can verify.
I think Horton views NATO as a scheme by MIC to keep the money flowing without actually doing anything good. And it is seen as an expansion by the outside forces, so it is rising up tensions with Russia, whether they voluntarily joined or not. I mean, such a great power as US could have brokered an amicable deal for all the parties involved without expanding NATO itself, Russia would certainly agree to many propositions, maybe even reducing the amount of bases and nuclear sites in its European part. But i did not hear about such attempts at diplomacy. Even promises of heads of states to not expend eastward now seen as Russia being fooled or too stupid to realize that they did not mean anything. I mean, Russia is bordering China, so guaranties from NATO or even NATO membership would be very much appreciated by it, but instead NATO left to be an anti-Russian block, or at least perceived by Russia as such.
In terms of the part of western populace jumping on Russian bandwagon, i guess people just want to support an alternative to their own system, which they see as corrupt or decrepit, even if they don't know that much about it. If you take a look at majority of Russian liberals you would see the same picture. People, who are sick of current system and want it changed no matter what, even if they have to be practical subjects of another state, namely US. They think that if Russian oligarchs are changed on Western ones and homosexual and transgender rights are enshrined in Russian constitution, than things will go for the better. Both sides would have a very hard time coping with the effects of either power winning completely, outside of the most ardent supporters, of course.
In terms of Ukrainians overthrowing Yankovich, i did not really thought about the whole sniper stuff that much, there was plenty of reasons to overthrow him regardless. He was not a nice guy or a honest politician by any stretch of the imagination, with his Villa, golden bread loafs or his own version of minutemen for political intimidation, he deserved to go the way he did. But pro-Russian parts still voted for him, which for me always highlighted the divide in Ukraine. There should not have been such a nation as Ukraine, there should have been Galicia or Ruthenia, from where Ukrainian nationalism takes its roots, and Malorossiya as part of Russia. Who would hold which territories is up for debate, but this would be a more honest divide than a Frankenstein's monster of a country that we have today, in which, to achieve it's cultural goals, one part of the population need to force another to speak different language from another without compromise. At worst, transfer of unwanted population needed to be made with benefits paid to them, so they could settle in a new home country, but i guess such a solution seen as too barbaric for the Modern Days. Turks and Greeks did it and it worked out fine, in my opinion.
And now, for the new rubric of "Slabo ebete":
TOS-1A bombing.
Rocket artillery working at night.
And an Ukrainian soldier being bombed.(SFW)
My rating is:
Also, switchblade drone have been captured by the Russians.
