They are so easy to manipulate!
Wow, manipulating the American sheeple is almost as easy as turning on a light-switch. All they have to do is get the US Free Press (TM) on the side of the latest imperial adventure. That’s never hard to do when 100% of the American media (thank God for “freedom of the press”) lines up with the imperial conspiracy du jour.
Of course, the US Left is pretty much dead. Not only that, but it’s barely even Left anymore. It always helps to have useful idiots like this horrifying “anti-fascist” Anton Shekhovtsov (a pro-US imperialist, pro-Ukrainian Nazi, anti-Russian traitor) and Louis Proyect, the awful leader of the Marxmail list, which itself is full of many an idiot cheerleading for US imperialism.
Because, you know, the Ukrainian Nazi revolution was a revolution (according to the Trots on Proyect’s blog), and Trots need to support “revolution” everywhere! Even Nazi revolutions, fascist revolutions, fake color revolutions run by US imperialism, revolutions staged by the CIA using local rightwing proxies of this or that type, no matter, they’re all revolutionaries!
When the US Left starts cheerleading for the machinations of US imperialism in the name of “anti-fascism” or “revolution” or the Bullshit Cause of the Day, the “Left” itself is pretty much of a joke, and it isn’t even Left anymore either. What is it? Who knows? A bunch of irrelevant insane people?
With a Left like that, we may as well make alliance with the Right. If rightwing nationalist parties in Europe supporting the Russian people fighting resisting Nazi exterminationists in East Ukraine, so be it. Rightwing nationalists aren’t exactly optimal, but at least they are fighting US imperialism and opposing the EU/IMF project.
We’ll take all the allies we can get. And frankly, I would rather sit down and have a cup of coffee with a rightwing nationalist than “Leftists” and “antifas” down on the front-lines amid the tracer bullets, fighting the good fight for US imperialism, the EU, the IMF and the neoliberal project in general. In wartime, you don’t make your volunteers take an ideology test. They show up at the recruiting station with a gun, fine, you send them to the front. War is no time for ideological purity tests.
