That’s basically what all of this boils down to. It’s just Cold War era Russophobia, emboldened, and somehow even stupider than it was back then. In the Western reaction to this whole mess, I just see washed up old Cold Warriors seeking an excuse to say all the truly horrific things about “Russkies” that they couldn’t say anymore after ‘91 happened and hostilities officially ceased. My dad watches war news and shifts into what must be his ten year old self. And the same thing happens each evening in millions of living rooms all across Turtle Island. And then it leaks onto those folks’ social media, emboldening each other. Children of the Cold War, calling people nasty names and doing stupid xenophobic crap and generally acting worse behaved than most ten year olds.
That’s basically what all of this boils down to. It’s just Cold War era Russophobia, emboldened, and somehow even stupider than it was back then. In the Western reaction to this whole mess, I just see washed up old Cold Warriors seeking an excuse to say all the truly horrific things about “Russkies” that they couldn’t say anymore after ‘91 happened and hostilities officially ceased. My dad watches war news and shifts into what must be his ten year old self. And the same thing happens each evening in millions of living rooms all across Turtle Island. And then it leaks onto those folks’ social media, emboldening each other. Children of the Cold War, calling people nasty names and doing stupid xenophobic crap and generally acting worse behaved than most ten year olds.