But lately I think he really is an ideological part of the nouveau droite.
There's definitely something to that - there's a reason just about all far-right parties in Europe have spent the last few years idolizing Putin. But honestly, that doesn't even scare me half as much as my nightmare version of it; that this isn't even a 20th/21st century conflict. It feels pre-ideology; "I want, I will fabricate a claim and take." It feels like an illusion being taken away, it feels medieval, just with better weapons and bigger stakes - and that includes both sides; I very much doubt that if this goes on much longer, the so-called west will be willing to keep paying higher oil prices just in the name of a country most Americans couldn't find on a map. I hope I'm wrong, maybe I've just been reading too much history recently, but I'm becoming increasingly convinced that there are no new conflicts in Europe, we just learned to put other labels on them for a while.
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Date: 2022-03-13 06:18 pm (UTC)There's definitely something to that - there's a reason just about all far-right parties in Europe have spent the last few years idolizing Putin. But honestly, that doesn't even scare me half as much as my nightmare version of it; that this isn't even a 20th/21st century conflict. It feels pre-ideology; "I want, I will fabricate a claim and take." It feels like an illusion being taken away, it feels medieval, just with better weapons and bigger stakes - and that includes both sides; I very much doubt that if this goes on much longer, the so-called west will be willing to keep paying higher oil prices just in the name of a country most Americans couldn't find on a map. I hope I'm wrong, maybe I've just been reading too much history recently, but I'm becoming increasingly convinced that there are no new conflicts in Europe, we just learned to put other labels on them for a while.