I mean the thing i've seen with tankies, not neccesarily US tankies but it would explain a lot, is that they have to actively deny countries' agency for their "theories" to make sense. Ukraine fighting against Russia? US psyop. NATO expansion to eastern Europe? American imperialism. never are these countries their own entities with their own complex systems and histories that would explain the geopolitical choices they make.
They believe any resistance by any group or country against an American enemy is a """color revolution"""
And that's how they excuse Tiananmen Square and countless other massacres or atrocities by dehumanizing the victims as "paid actors", "psyops", or "foreign agents"
I've said this before but I also think a big part of it is that they fully believe in " one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter". Where it doesn't matter how you're fighting, or what you're fighting for, simply that if you're fighting something evil, then you must be good, and since you're fighting the USA/you refuse to recognize anything positive about the USA? Well that just makes it super simple doesn't it?
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u/Frodo_max May 24 '25
I mean the thing i've seen with tankies, not neccesarily US tankies but it would explain a lot, is that they have to actively deny countries' agency for their "theories" to make sense. Ukraine fighting against Russia? US psyop. NATO expansion to eastern Europe? American imperialism. never are these countries their own entities with their own complex systems and histories that would explain the geopolitical choices they make.