The Russians ran out of missiles and started fighting with shovels two years ago. However, as Asiatic Mongols, the Russians gain a +15 bonus to primitive weapons use.
There's a lot propaganda floating around in Chudspace positioning Russia as a bastion of western traditionalism, religious orthodoxy and opposition to gay/trans rights. To the Chud audience the Russia/Ukraine conflict is framed as tradition vs modern decadence and perversion.
It would be somehow less unhinged if it were just the other side of the russiagate coin.
Edit: obviously propaganda of equal quality also floats around asserting the inverse, ie the de-nazification narrative. Sometimes the streams cross and an article praising Putin's embrace of multicultural immigration (for example) will pop up in the spaces that tend fascist leaning pro-Russia. It's all quite tiresome and incoherent.
Yeah. I think it's a mistake to read too much into it looking for underlying coherency or consistency. I think Ur-Fascism and other classic observations on these sorts of social movements identify this disregard for logical consistency or sincere ideology.
Annoyingly, it's not even a tactical feature of the ideology as far as I can tell, the brainrot itself seems to be an important fundamental piece of the material conditions that fascism repeatedly emerges from. (tho it is tactically useful as fuck for them.)
Yeah, one thing to keep in mind when discussing Americans’ views on foreign policy… like >95% of them are so woefully uninformed on the wider world around them that you can’t learn much from polls on their opinions.
Well, yes. They're currently in charge of the government. So the status quo is good. American chuds are not in charge of the country. So what the government is doing is bad. It's a team sport, and they aren't winning right now. It's not any more complicated than that.