Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon:
We’re being dragged into a potential Third World War that would eclipse the first two. And this is happening in the most egregious way every single day. The White House claims they were unaware of the Ukrainians’ plans. They just went ahead and attacked Russia’s nuclear triad—something even General Curtis LeMay wouldn’t have dared to do.
They disabled 40% of their strategic bombers—41 out of 100. The attack was bold, audacious, all of that… but this is unacceptable. A country we fund and make deals with is now pulling us into its war. They think they can strike Russian territory and drag us into a conflict with Russia. We’re being dragged into a war that could metastasize.
According to republicans, Ukraine doing anything other than bending over and taking it is illegitimate and totally their fault. Makes sense for a party who elected Trump twice.
It’s a common thread of logic for them.
Their favored aggressors and abusers are essentially framed as dangerous wild animals who can’t be held responsible for their actions. They can’t help but react to their victims, whether its a cop magdumping an unarmed suspect or Russia rocketing a civilian district. And the victims should know better than to incite further reactions. Somehow it falls on the victim to deftly navigate the rage of their attackers.
The thought that it’s the aggressors who need to learn (or be taught) temperance does not enter their head.
We get a similar dynamic in the US media, even supposed ‘liberal’ media. People blame Democrats for the awful things republicans do because they didn’t stop them. Republicans are rarely blamed for being the ones who wanted to do the horrible things in the first place. Definitely a victim blaming, absuive narcissist dynamic.
Was listening to a Trumper saying how it was okay for Trump to go into the women’s changing room because he’s a professional, in contrast to trans folk. Then it struck me, these people are cucked. Russia is bigger and badder, so of course they expect Ukraine to just take it, because being cucked is literally their world view.