So Anne Applebaum wrote a piece for The Atlantic, which encourages further Ukrainian resistance to Russian intervention. Timofiy Mylovanov has written a thread on X that recounts the content therein.
Isn’t this cute? Same old shit, Russia needs to lose so that the Central European countries don’t have to spend 2% of GDP on defense and enjoy exploiting Russia for resources. But we are too chickenshit to go against Russia directly and have outsourced the dirty work to Ukrainians.
The problem is Ukrainians can’t win. They can inflict significant damage against Russia but firing rockets at Crimea is nuisance but will not hinder Russia’s advance. Ukraine might have reoccupied Kharkov and part of Kherson but those were poorly defended areas that Russia has withdrawn from. The battle is not over regions but against the army and the Ukrainian regime.
The problem with Eastern Europeans is they are ideologically stuck up thinking they have a superior government system and that’s why everyone owes them. If they were pragmatists, they would have already found a compromise with Russia. The East Europeans do no benefit from being lackies of the West.
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From what I can see, it’s more like they think the West is superior in some ways, and they be like “we’re more real and more based than the West, and we have better form of governance than Russia”. Sounds a lot like inferiority complex to me. They’re the victim of their own inferiority complex and a really outdated world view – just like Asians, East Europeans’ understanding of the West, particularly US, seems to be stuck in that of WW2 era, except only a few well-informed intellectuals.
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I think hubris is the word you are looking for. How then do we explain the thinking that Western democracies are any superior to Russian “authoritarianism”? The problem say in a country like mine is our politicians are only thinking about their own re-election, they do not care about solving long term or structural problems. And this is ironically why they lose elections, and they call this democracy.
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By inferiority complex, I was referring more to the Asians’ and East Europeans’ way of thinking that I’ve observed; that “we’re lesser than US or western Europe, but at least we have democracy and we’re still better than Russia or China”. This explains that bitch-like attitude towards Americans, even on a personal level – not sure about Eastern Europe, but see how American expats are treated like royalty in Asia. That’s not exactly hubris. Hubris is for Americans, Canadians, Australians, Brits and other west Europeans. Asians and East Europeans got inferiority complex.
And for the re-election, it’s the same for US. See how Trump changed his stance towards China? I mean yeah, he did mention a lot about trade war during 2016, but was still keeping it rational during the first half and even during the first part of trade war in 2018. It was only around somewhere in 2019, when the re-election is coming his way and I believe he also suffered a lot of pressure from both Democrats and Republicans (even then, Trump didn’t fund nor support the riot in Hong Kong, mind you), that was when he decided to take his gloves off. If Trump isn’t that worried about such pressure nor re-election, then shit may be a lot more gradual and perhaps US and China could’ve reached an upgraded mutual understanding along the way, which to be frank, is desperately needed at that moment (now it’s different story though and yes, I do believe Xi wasn’t being smart for visiting Biden like that).
Representative democracy is like this; it’s designed to make people believe they’re free when they’re not. A lot of societal problems are neglected and been made much worse because everyone thinks by voting in new laws, problems will go away. A lot of talking points are meant to feed the ego of middle-class, or former middle-class as we’re getting deeper within 2020s, when such demographic has clearly been used, if one examines modern history. And to make the matter even worse, the sense of community and belonging have been thrown away due to the introduction of meritocracy, which many middle-class believes firmly in.
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