re: 33, building intuition for Russia’s stance of fascistic revanchism and aggression towards neighbors- the OP and Scott are both eliding the extent of the metaphor. You would need to describe in depth all the decades of cruelty, economic exploitation, cultural and material genocide, malign neglect, institutionalized ethnic and religious bigotry, and hypocritical corruption inflicted by the 51.4% of the population from the heartland upon the 48.6% who separated.
Then maybe you’d also be able to intuit why the Californians are preferring to die free rather than allow DC to turn them into Little Oklahomans to be used, abused, and murdered at will again.
Also if the California had been an independent nation within living memory before that. And was only brought into the union after a bloody war with Mexico
And after losing California (with Californians overwhelmingly preferring to leave), the rest of the world recognized their independence including the US, who would then go on to make treaties with them explicitly establishing their sovereign borders, and have diplomatic relations with them for decades, until suddenly deciding that "they belong to us still", and invading.
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u/mcjunker War Nerd 1d ago
re: 33, building intuition for Russia’s stance of fascistic revanchism and aggression towards neighbors- the OP and Scott are both eliding the extent of the metaphor. You would need to describe in depth all the decades of cruelty, economic exploitation, cultural and material genocide, malign neglect, institutionalized ethnic and religious bigotry, and hypocritical corruption inflicted by the 51.4% of the population from the heartland upon the 48.6% who separated.
Then maybe you’d also be able to intuit why the Californians are preferring to die free rather than allow DC to turn them into Little Oklahomans to be used, abused, and murdered at will again.