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It's been mind blowing to watch all of this unfold. The confidence they have in their own bullshit always shakes me, even when I know it really seems like bullshit.
I was pretty sure that having and controlling labor, materials, and productive capital is more important than currency, but they really had me doubting myself. It turns out I was actually right? What the fuck? They can't outdo Russia without escalating to horrendous violence, and thankfully they're afraid to go any further than they already have.
The last time this self-doubt happened to me in a major way was when all of the news was insisting that the ghettos of Venezuela were at any moment going to rise up, install Guaido as president, and demand their oil fields be sold to American oil companies. It didn't see how that was possible, but it was a daily narrative on NPR. I kept wondering if I was missing something obvious. It turns out I was fucking right. That's actually why I stopped listening to NPR. Why would I willing listen to this imperial bullshit?
Also, it looks like a lot of Russians remember the 90s, better than I do I'm sure. Why would most of these people want to be pillaged by the west again? It seems like Russia (and much of Ukraine too) has almost no would be collaborators. I thought the narrative that 150 million plus people were yearning to be ruled over by the richest Americans and Western Europeans was pretty dubious, but the only people agreeing with me were scum of the earth communists. Well, once again, I was fucking right.
I need to trust the immortal science when it reveals an essential truth. Ok, that's enough of this rambling.
For sure, there's just so much gaslighting in western media that it makes you question your own sanity at times. The past two years exposed the west for the Potemkin village that it really is. All of a sudden people are seeing that Russia can get by without the west a lot better than the west can get by without Russia because it's the material things that matter in the end. It's not about GDP or stocks, it's about industrial capacity, food, and energy production. These are the things that really matter.
Western media is doing it's job. Create a false caricature of an enemy, dehumanize it and then gaslight everyone into believing their lies and propaganda and you did a good job at resisting it, comrade.
When the Ukraine war started and news channels in my country began to air a documentary about Putin's life story (PUTIN IS A FORMER KGB AGENT KGB BAD SOVIET UNION BAD), I began to have doubts about everything. I was already in a pretty bad mental state back then and seeing everyone siding with fucking Nazis and believing all the bullshit Western Media cooked during the early days of the war definitely didn't help; got in a few heated arguments and none of them ended well.
However, watching recent events unfold and the rise of China as a global socialist superpower has reinvigorated my beliefs and cemented the immortal science in my mind and heart.
Agreed