There seems to be an oblique critique of people that are suddenly pro-intervention and pro-war that are classified as traditional anti-war/peacenik. This analy

There seems to be an oblique critique of people that are suddenly pro-intervention and pro-war that are classified as traditional anti-war/peacenik. This analysis may be true, but seems to be trending here because of that undercurrent running through discussions of Russia/Ukraine. I do not think this is some irrational fear stirring within people in the abstract sense. There are very good reasons to see this as far more than just another regional conflict. Ukraine is a line in the sand against the very idea of modern authoritarianism. What has been occurring for the last 10 years politically is a disturbing trend towards authoritarianism. China is now much more authoritarian under Xi. "Populism" movements with leaders openly admiring Putin. Putin is the perverse hero of these ambitious strongmen. Putin's cult of personality among wannabe far right wing movements is a disturbing trend undermining not just some idealistic dream of true liberal democracy, but even the more mundane functional republic we generally have. Here we have Putin nakedly expressing aggression, as a sort of apex achievement of decades of psy-ops, "fomenting despair", and other KGB manipulations. What's important here is not to just rebuke Putin's ambitions in the realist/actual political and power sense, in the immediate sense. What is important here is to destroy this god of the dangerous radical far right, embarrass his armies, shame him, show him impotent and powerless before a nascent Ukrainian national identity that should have no fighting chance.