I just love how the whole thing was premised on chauvinism where they took it for granted that backwards Russians couldn’t figure out how to operate these businesses without the enlightened west. This is what happens when people start getting high on their own supply.
I think it’s exactly that, the policy towards Russia and China really does seem to be rooted in the idea that they’re just not able to develop on their own.
I think they must. They need to justify their atrocities and subjugation somehow. What better way to do that than to insist they are “inferiors” who “deserve it”?
And we often see leadership in the EU accidentally saying the quiet part out loud quite a bit as well.
The working class attitude to these places is shaped by the ruling class’s attitude, not by any intrinsic racism. The average worker in Belgium has far more in common with a worker in China or Russia than they do with their billionaire boss.
I just love how the whole thing was premised on chauvinism where they took it for granted that backwards Russians couldn’t figure out how to operate these businesses without the enlightened west. This is what happens when people start getting high on their own supply.
Straight out of the Nazi Germany playbook. Sometimes I wonder whether the ruling class of the west genuinely thinks of the non-west as untermensch.
I think it’s exactly that, the policy towards Russia and China really does seem to be rooted in the idea that they’re just not able to develop on their own.
I think they must. They need to justify their atrocities and subjugation somehow. What better way to do that than to insist they are “inferiors” who “deserve it”?
And we often see leadership in the EU accidentally saying the quiet part out loud quite a bit as well.
It’s not just the ruling class, unfortunately.
It is fortunate for China, Russia, etc that the West underestimates them and has no interest to learn about them.
Hm these contradictory things keep popping up all over the place. Someone should write a book about it.
The working class attitude to these places is shaped by the ruling class’s attitude, not by any intrinsic racism. The average worker in Belgium has far more in common with a worker in China or Russia than they do with their billionaire boss.
looks like they just forgot that russia is getting economic sanctions since the october revolution, so they have plenty of experience dealing with it.