The reason the far right is making gains in Europe is because the proxy war with Russia is creating the material conditions for fascism. Therefore, if they magically “obliterate” the Russian military the conditions creating fascism would disappear. So, he’s technically right, except he hasn’t actually spent time thinking about how to defeat the Russian military. He probably doesn’t actually understand it would require a nuclear war and thinks it could be easily done because they’re Asiatic and backwards i.e. “orcs”
Yep, there has been a crazy amount of fearmongering and talk about how Europe must prioritise military spending and consequently deprioritise living conditions, climate goals and personal freedoms. People for some reason believing that quick fuels support for the right.
even if he could bloodlessly snap away all of Russia’s military assets, Europe’s far right would still be there. the conditions already existed and already strengthened them. and 99% of the conditions are just fear of immigrants, which would increase when Russian citizens flees westward
Fear of immigrants almost always comes materially from economic forces. They’re not just becoming spontaneously more racist.
I think you’re underestimating how much of the rise of the far right is being caused by the loss of Russian oil and gas and grain and even tourism. The sanctions put pressure on prices and employment all across the European economy; cutting off their nose to spite their face. The conditions are created by the fear of competition for limited energy and resources, and conquering Russia would end the sanctions and open up their defeated neighbor for superexploitation and the extraction of superprofits.
It’s all a fantasy, of course. Russia will not become an imperial conquest that they can loot to alleviate poor economic conditions.
The reason the far right is making gains in Europe is because the proxy war with Russia is creating the material conditions for fascism. Therefore, if they magically “obliterate” the Russian military the conditions creating fascism would disappear. So, he’s technically right, except he hasn’t actually spent time thinking about how to defeat the Russian military. He probably doesn’t actually understand it would require a nuclear war and thinks it could be easily done because they’re Asiatic and backwards i.e. “orcs”
Yep, there has been a crazy amount of fearmongering and talk about how Europe must prioritise military spending and consequently deprioritise living conditions, climate goals and personal freedoms. People for some reason believing that quick fuels support for the right.
even if he could bloodlessly snap away all of Russia’s military assets, Europe’s far right would still be there. the conditions already existed and already strengthened them. and 99% of the conditions are just fear of immigrants, which would increase when Russian citizens flees westward
Fear of immigrants almost always comes materially from economic forces. They’re not just becoming spontaneously more racist.
I think you’re underestimating how much of the rise of the far right is being caused by the loss of Russian oil and gas and grain and even tourism. The sanctions put pressure on prices and employment all across the European economy; cutting off their nose to spite their face. The conditions are created by the fear of competition for limited energy and resources, and conquering Russia would end the sanctions and open up their defeated neighbor for superexploitation and the extraction of superprofits.
It’s all a fantasy, of course. Russia will not become an imperial conquest that they can loot to alleviate poor economic conditions.