The west essentially said subservience or a potentially world ending war. If you are in the gaza or various global south countries your world is in a perpetual state of ending. If you are a parent whose child is killed in an air strike or from hunger due to sanctions, the world has pretty much ended. More and more people are gonna choose the latter, a potentially world ending war especially if they have the means to fight it, i.e. Russia.
Edit: I am not even gonna issue any disclaimers about putin or Russia or whatever. Wtf do people think nato was gonna do once it neighbored Russia? Lend it sugar and power tools? Send it a gift basket? Bake cookies for it?
Agreed, if it must be (actual) liberty or death, there’s only one option (though the entire world other than the west is constantly seeking peace, and whatever conflict happens is entirely and infinitely the west’s fault). Some things are worse than death, and the west has proven time and time again to offer exactly that, a slow death with no dignity, no humanity, no decency given.
I hope if the world does head down this path- hell, even if it doesn’t- that a hell of some sort exists, and if not that future humans or other sentients will create it. “Eternal torment” is more mercy than the ghouls of empire deserve.
The west essentially said subservience or a potentially world ending war. If you are in the gaza or various global south countries your world is in a perpetual state of ending. If you are a parent whose child is killed in an air strike or from hunger due to sanctions, the world has pretty much ended. More and more people are gonna choose the latter, a potentially world ending war especially if they have the means to fight it, i.e. Russia.
Edit: I am not even gonna issue any disclaimers about putin or Russia or whatever. Wtf do people think nato was gonna do once it neighbored Russia? Lend it sugar and power tools? Send it a gift basket? Bake cookies for it?
Agreed, if it must be (actual) liberty or death, there’s only one option (though the entire world other than the west is constantly seeking peace, and whatever conflict happens is entirely and infinitely the west’s fault). Some things are worse than death, and the west has proven time and time again to offer exactly that, a slow death with no dignity, no humanity, no decency given.
I hope if the world does head down this path- hell, even if it doesn’t- that a hell of some sort exists, and if not that future humans or other sentients will create it. “Eternal torment” is more mercy than the ghouls of empire deserve.