Like, I wake up and see my flowers. Some bees. It’s a nice sunrise. I open the news and it’s just one big collapse of the west. Fascism is rapidly coming up. I’m in the middle of it but I still need to go to work to keep the make believe that is our society going. War might be imminent. Whether that’s with Russia or the US.
And yet here we are, collectively pretending everything is fine.
I don’t know where you’re getting the idea that they’re calling people vassals, but this thread has some great resources on the Russia-Ukraine conflict: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7357678
It helps put into perspective where it comes from and, importantly, how embedded western imperialist interests have been in it from the start. The western-driven narrative loves to portray it as some kind of unprovoked conquest project on the part of Putin personally, but that’s just the west evading all responsibility for their actions and calling another country’s leader cartoonishly evil as usual, very par for the course with how it functions; the west is obsessed with simplifying things to a binary of good and evil, with the west (of course) being the good.
Stories from Grandma for the history, State Russian TV for the recent stuff. Russians and Americans are both trying to acquire territory, to reclaim their fantasy Golden Eras.
I see. Well I don’t know what to say beyond what I already shared. My sources and understanding of it do not line up with that.
Actual experience is like that.