Paul KrugmanGood roundup of the anti-Zelensky right, but I think it misses one additional point: the importance of the musclebound, thuggish Russian soldier in right-wing iconography 1/ https://www.thebulwark.com/putins-useful-idiots-right-wingers-lose-it-over-zelensky-visit/
Before Putin's war, lots of people on the right, from Ted Cruz on down, idolized bicep-flexing Russians who were supposed to be much tougher than our supposedly pampered service members 2/
Even now you see people saying "a woke military is a weak military" — in the face of the definitely anti-woke Russian army's string of disasters . And how many times has Tucker Carlson declared that Russia is winning? 3/
You don't have to be a military expert to see that while courage and endurance are as important as ever, a modern military also needs smart people who can act on their own initiative 4/
And that recruiting people from as wide a pool as possible, and with the promise of decent treatment, is going to work better than brutalizing and hazing. But admitting that would undermine the whole RW world view 5/
So Ukraine must lose, and Russia win, to vindicate the worship of thuggishness 6/
Bill Janssen@pkrugman
Paul, it's fascinating seeing you doing threading here. They come in last-to-first, so I keep reading, trying to figure out what you're talking about! Burma-Shave in reverse!
The key is to only make the first piece of the thread public, and then make the rest of the pieces "unlinked". That way people will just see the head of the thread, and only if they click on it will the other parts show up.
John 0tter