Conservatives have always loved Putin and Russia
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Trump openly said that Putin's immoral and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine was pure genuis.
And then MAGA losers on JPP dutifully defended and rationalized Trump's statement.
The fact is this Ukraine clusterfuck looks like an act of outrageous hubris, and may be the stupidest decision a Russian leader has made since Tsar Nicholas II.
And then MAGA losers on JPP dutifully defended and rationalized Trump's statement.
The fact is this Ukraine clusterfuck looks like an act of outrageous hubris, and may be the stupidest decision a Russian leader has made since Tsar Nicholas II.
They did defend it...until it became inconvenient to defend. Now they're all pretending as if they totally didn't love Putin.
History will record this as the 'Putin Gambit'. Or 'How to Lose a Chess Game in One Move'.
From back when Bush the Dumber said he gazed longingly into Vladimir Putin's eyes, to this:
That is not photoshopped.
That is an actual magazine cover.
I don't even think conservatives even really opposed Soviet Communism on the principled grounds of human freedom, democracy, and human rights.
They were just afraid of losing money and property to a Communist order.
When the Bolsheviks overthrew the Provisional Government in 1917, the first people to resist them were Russian liberals and democratic socialists. Meanwhile, the conservative gentry and aristocracy fled the country in a panic.