This makes it worse! I thought you were maybe a teenager who got autistic after reading that one Mearsheimer article.

You seem to know more than most of the browridges in here, so I’d like to hear more from you, but you keep peddling this simplistic good vs evil story, like the only alternative to being a US neocon warhawk is believing an innocent Russia victimization narrative. And I don’t think a person with a folklore degree could possibly be so naive about this Kievan Rus propaganda… shouldn’t you be the one most suspicious about how mythopoetic pasts get employed by modern nation states to legitimate … whatever? Probably barbarism.

idk, I’d just like to be less dumb about this all, not just become equally dumb in some other direction.