RE: If Ukraine is a "Nazi State," Why Are the World's Nazis Lining Up Behind Russia?

[roleerob]

In how many different ways today do we see this "cornerstone" tactic of atheistic marxists and all of their philosophical allies carried out. And what is that? To accuse their adversaries of the very thing they are so clearly guilty of themselves ...

You have provided us with another well-written example in this post, @patriamreminisci.

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P.S. This recent issue of Imprimis, which is on my very short "must read" list of monthly publications, has a lot of content related to what you have just written. In the broader context of man's ancient history with an aspect of our human nature that just ... does not ... die ...

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/imperialism-lessons-from-history/

An ~ 10 minute read, I think you will find it well worth the investment of your time.

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[patriamreminisci]

When I was 18 and just beginning my study of the classics, I was astonished when I read in Thucydides that when the Peloponnesian War broke out, most of the Greeks wanted Sparta to win. Was not Athens a democracy and Sparta an oligarchy? Athens was the home of Socrates, Pericles, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and Sophocles. Sparta was rural and backward with no navy or beautiful temples or walls. It represented Doric severity as opposed to the Ionic cosmopolitanism of Athens. Why would the Greeks prefer that Sparta win? I didn’t understand the anomaly when I was 18, but the simple answer soon became clear: Sparta was not then imperial—or at least not as imperial as Athens. Empires like to think of themselves as having a lot of friends, but they are often naive in forgetting the depth of the ill-will they incur.

I've noted this, and the current conflict in Ukraine is an example. There are huge swaths of the world (Africa, India, China, most of South America and the Middle East, and a few pockets of Eastern Europe like Hungary and Serbia) cheering for Russia, not because they think there is anything glorious about Russia but because they have accepted the notion of Ukraine as an American proxy and therefore, out of bitterness toward America, will nod along with any allegation made against that so-called "proxy" and wave the flag of whatever nation is up against them.

[patriamreminisci]

Now that I've finished today's article (September 11 snuck up on me, or else I'd have worked on it for the past week and had a more organized and polished article prepared and had it published this morning), I'll give this a look.