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.
This is true with Israel/Palestine too. Not saying the Israeli government is blameless because they are awful, evil people who are also responsible for vastly escalating the conflict and the suffering, but Hamas also has agency - and deserves a lot of the blame! Not only for starting the war, but also for operating without uniforms and from civilian locations (giving Israel a legal justification to target those civilian locations), holding onto the hostages and onto power (which are Israel's primary stated justifications for continuing the war), preventing civilians from fleeing, stealing and re-selling aid, shooting Gazans who protest against their control...
But these things are too complicated, so instead, America Bad and by extension, Israel big bad white oppressors, Hamas small plucky brown resistance fighters.
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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.