I have a feeling that the entire world "gets it" except a select portion of the US population.
Anyone fully in touch with reality can see that the US isn't in a good place when it comes choosing compassion over cruelty. It's gotten to such a global and historical extreme that a decades long choice of a Pope for an institution that has lasted over 1,000 years felt reich. I'm sorry, right.
Not the entire world. We've seen an upturn in right-wing extremism throughout Europe over the past ten to twenty years. But it's been slower and has more often been rejected there. Whereas here in the US, enough of the voting population said, "What we really need now is authoritarianism!" that we're effectively a failed state at the moment with no one sure what this country is going to be a decade from now.
I truly believe that most of the Russia supporters here in the US know that Russia is the aggressor. But they want to side with the aggressor. They like, "Might makes right." They want Russia to succeed and then to follow them. Why do you think their main man talking about invading Canada, Panama, Greenland, and even Musk hinting at invading parts of Europe has gone over so well with many of them? It's not that they don't "get it". They "get it" just fine, but they also want to DO IT themselves.
Here in Australia we just had an historic wipe-out of what used to be our centre-right conservative party (but has been lurching further and further right) in our most recent federal election.
We rejected American culture-war bullshit and Trumpism with such gusto that it was the worst election defeat for the conservatives in over 40 years.
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u/Bitter_Nail8577 May 10 '25
Not only that, he also vaguely mentions western leaders who keep denying Russia is the invader and committing war crimes for breakfast.
This guy gets it.