Another one bites the populist dust

[litespeed]

@justpassingby

It’s a utopian achievement.

Why have Utopia when you can have Dystopia?

Perhaps one thing we forgot to mention is Truth. Populists can better invent their own truth and facts, better than reality.

[Phil_MCR]

@Slammer

Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

Well, there’s pay and benefits…

[kingkong]

@komsomolez

Not quite. Yesterday on Twitter I read a piece by some “intellectual” pro-AfD columnist (Tichy) who argued that Germany today (woke and green) was not worth defending against a Russian threat.

Many Western militaries (Aus, UK, US, EU etc.) are facing a struggle in attracting new recruits.

[bossybaby]

@ kingkong…not just attracting, but finding recruits who are even able to pass simple physical tests, let alone drug tests.

[komsomolez]

Maybe. But that was not the point of the piece. The point was to argue that it is better to side with Putin’s Russia (you know, traditional Christian values etc.) than with the degenerate West.

This is where we are with the pro-Putin European right.