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I’m referring to the political compass, not center right liberals. Yall just refer to anyone that doesn’t love authoritarian regimes as “liberals.”
The political compass is useless for describing actual ideologies. Partly because that’s not how ideologies work, partly because you can’t divorce political philosophies from their contexts in society.
Here’s an academic work going over what liberalism meant to every major liberal philosopher.
Like anarchists, we only call people who support capitalism liberals, because liberalism is the philosophy of capitalism.
What’s the societal context for defending genocides and excusing imperialism (specifically, Russia)?
Opposition to American imperialism isn’t support for Russian imperialism.
The simple truth is that this prolonged war is worse than a quick defeat for the people living in Ukraine; millions are displaced, hundreds of thousands are dead, the rightwing is stronger than ever in both countries, and Ukraine will never be safe again within either of our lifetimes.
3 parties can unilaterally end the war right now, Russia, Ukraine, and America. As an American, the only way I can meaningfully oppose the war is to oppose America’s involvement. That would be reversed if I was a Russian.
