This Screenshot Encapsulates The Anti Russian Mindset.
This screencap is basically a pro western imperialist admitting to their hostile intentions.
So sacrificing Ukrainian lives is good, because it drags Russia into the mud, and might drag Iran and China down with them.
This is the commenter basically admitting that they think the war is good, because they want to harm others. This is nothing to do with the moral duty to protect Ukraine, since the west doesn’t give a shit about Ukraine, and there is no moral duty to protect irrational actors, that bomb and shell their own civilians, and has a government crawling with far right nationalists.
Comment was taken form this video. I am screenshotting it and putting it up here, in case the video is ever taken down, If you listen to the video, it is typical delusional western nonsense.
Russia needs to be more hard-line, as the only way to communicate with irrational actors is force. Russia needs to enforce red lines and make NATO countries pay a heavy price. Anything else is seen as weakness.
The stereotype of Russia is of a weak, backwards, corrupt country that uses human wave tactics in war. Since this is a stereotype of weakness, this incites hostile aggressive people to incite even more aggression against Russia. Aggressors have to pay a price, or there is a real risk that the irrational actors in the west will feel emboldened to go further up the escalation ladder.
Of course Russia striking back at the west for violating red lines also risks going further up the escalation ladder too. So there is no easy answer here, but I believe it is better for Russia to be more hard line.
That comment really shows the cynicism of Western bots, all they think about is just hating Russia, Iran and China for the simple fact they exist.
Referencing our recent discussion on another Substack's comments section, I think it is stuff down the lines of the western imperialist propaganda that you sample here that Trump, in his naivety and stupidity, was accepting as reality.
These western imperialist stories were made by evil people who are smarter than Trump--they got him to believe it and even make idiotic campaign promises based on it, after all--but his stupidity and ego continue to cause him to flounder and flip-flop around with this war now that actual reality is punching him in the face, and this floundering is literally causing lives to continue to be destroyed in the war zone. For those victims, unfortunately, there is no coping.