Tankies claim to want ‘peace’ as they advocate for Putin’s war aim
Tankies claim to want ‘peace’ as they advocate for Putin’s war aim
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It’s been a minute since we last checked in on the tankies—that breed of humans who think imperialism is bad, but only the United States can be imperialist. As a result, everything that is bad in the world is the United States’ fault. No one else has agency or independence.
For example, they claim Russia had no choice but to launch its overtly imperialistic war against Ukraine, because it was simply responding to American efforts to surround Russia with its NATO puppets. They are big supporters of the concept of the “global south,” a supposed coalition of developing nations led by global-north nations Russian and China (despotic regimes—a feature, not a bug) as a counterweight to Western hegemony. This pretty much sums it up:
As such, they are quick to denounce imagined abuses by Ukraine, while ignoring Russian abuses.
Before and during Wagner Group's chaotic armed mutiny, President Vladimir Putin was far from the leader Russian elites expected him to be. "He just hid," Gennady Gudkov, a former colonel in the Russian security services who is now an opposition politician in exile, told The Washington Post.
Gudkov told the Post that Putin's inaction during Yevgeny Prigozhin's 24-hour rebellion severely damaged his reputation with top Russian officials.
"Putin showed himself to be a person who is not able to make serious, important and quick decisions in critical situations," he said, adding, "This was not understood by most of the Russian population. But it was very well understood by Putin's elite. He is no longer the guarantor of their security and the preservation of the system."
It's the latest criticism of Putin after the Wagner plot last month left the world stunned. Prigozhin launched an armed revolt he called a "march for justice" on June 24 after claiming that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu had ordered an air strike on Wagner forces fighting in Ukraine, although Prigozhin had little evidence to back up such a claim.
