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Dec. 9, 2024 - RadixJournal - Richard Spencer
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The Fantasy of “Resistance”

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You're doing well.
And it's time again for another casual update.
Quite a bit has happened in the world.
I think something occurred that I don't think really anyone predicted, and that is the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
His regime is definitively over, and it has huge geopolitical consequences.
There is two major, in fact, but one major naval air base, what the status of that is.
What the status of the so-called axis of resistance is, I think is up in question.
Was Assad abandoned by Russia and Iran?
Assad reportedly has fled to Russia with his family.
There it is.
Is this a sort of Sunni triumph?
As well.
Even mainstream media have been reporting that the fighters going after Assad are, many of them at least, are ISIS, they're radicals, they're former al-Qaeda who have put on suits and ties and now want to lead the country, and in the case of one person in particular,
maybe this generation's Osama bin Laden, because much of the same thing was said about him and the Mujahideen back in the day.
There's obviously a ton to talk about and just the sort of miraculous nature of the event.
Maybe miracle is too strong a word, or too loaded a word, but just the speed at which this happened.
But I guess what I want to talk about a little bit is this fantasy of resistance that has been on...
I'll just use that term.
It's kind of a dated term at this point.
But I'm referring to alternative media that is right-wing this way and that.
And I'm not necessarily referring to the 2016-2017 event.
But this fantasy of resistance.
It is this notion that you're a stranger in your own homeland.
If you're an American or a Western European or a Briton, etc., etc., you just hate your own country, basically.
And it's gay.
And it's also gay and evil.
It oversees genocides.
It engages in horrifying interventions around the world.
And worst of all, it claims to be humanitarian.
While it has blood on its hands, but it's also promoting, you know, rainbow flags and transgender youth, etc., etc.
So, and then there, of course, it's aligned with Israel and Zionism.
So really anything that you can see as a resistance force is good.
And, you know, on some level, I get it.
You know, you could say, I mean, Russia is not bucking Israel.
The notion that Russia is in opposition to Israel is completely false.
But I sort of get the idea of they are, you
charting their own course.
They're resisting the globalist world order.
And on that, in itself, they deserve support.
You know, Syria is resisting.
Israeli expansion or Israeli influence in the Middle East.
And on that account, at the very least, we should support them.
And I sort of get it on some level.
And I get it because I was one of them.
When I see a lot of alternative media people lionizing Assad, it's kind of an interesting term there because Assad means lion, lionizing Assad and lionizing Vladimir Putin, you know, he's trad and Christian,
etc., etc.,
I see this fantasy.
It's a fantasy based in resentment.
And it's a fantasy in which you completely misunderstand what's happening.
You overestimate the power of these groups, and you become sort of a hater in your own land, in what I think is a very unhealthy way.
So let's remember that many right-wing commentators have been telling us for years that Assad is invincible.
Well, no.
He got played by the Turks, apparently, who funded or signed off on This operation, including wild men and berserkers.
He's beloved by his people.
Well, not really.
His regime collapsed really precipitously.
Vladimir Putin, I remember there was an article that came out, Russia can win modern wars.
It's going to be days, etc.
He's fighting against...
The GAE or woke or all this kind of stuff.
And what you ultimately find when you rip off all of that packaging of the anti-woke, badass, trad, man of the West, maybe a little bit less so as Assad,
but I've heard a lot of talk like that.
When you rip off that trapping...
You find these ten-pot kleptocratic, just bullshit dictatorships that are, in Assad's case, killing hundreds of thousands of people.
I mean, I will grant you that in the short term, things might very well be much worse.
There's no doubt.
I get the idea of just stability for stability's sake.
If you act like that, you are going to become hated, passionately hated by your own population.
With Putin desperately seeking help with North Korea, bombing cities, destroying European families, throwing more and more Russian men into the meat grinder.
At some level, it's pathetic and grotesque and really shockingly immoral, these people, these people that you think are resisting.
They're not really, well, maybe they are resisting in some ways, but they're not really charting a new course.
They're not showing us a path forward.
Towards a new type of politics or something that's even marginally admirable.
They want to hold on to their really crappy countries and they want to continue to murder the opposition on mass, scrape off billions of dollars for themselves and their friends.
And they're sort of playing the right wing by claiming that, you know, we're a trad, anti-globalist, oh, we love the real America, etc.
And my position at this point in my life towards people like Assad or Vladimir Putin or whatever, my position towards them is fuck them.
They're not good enough.
They're losing to the global America, the gay.
The global American empire.
They're losing.
They can't win modern wars.
They can't defend themselves against hordes of berserkers.
They're getting played by the Turks.
The Shia crescent is getting dismantled day by day by Israel and in this case.
So they're not good enough, so fuck them.
They're merely resisting.
And that's not anything, really.
That's kind of pathetic.
It's like being a naysayer.
And at the end of the day, none of these countries, whether we're talking about Iran, whether we're talking about Russia, whether we're talking about Syria in the...
None of these countries are actually more trad than the United States if you evaluate them using any sort of metric.
You know, premarital sex, abortion, pornography, homosexuality, church attendance.
I mean, it goes on and on.
They're backward.
So fuck them.
They've decided they have leaders that want to carve out a space for themselves by resisting the modern world, in effect.
And that's not really a path into the future.
They want a multipolar world order.
Yes, what that means is it's like liberalism on the scale of the globe where, you know, oh, we wouldn't even dare, our ethno-religious community wouldn't even dare treading on your trad ethno-religious.
It's a non-aggression principle on the scale of the globe.
All they are, at the end of the day, are backwards shitholes.
And when their great leaders fail...
To actually chart a new course, or they fail to genuinely resist the global American empire, and they're just getting their asses kicked, then why are we shedding tears over them?
Why are we giving a shit about them?
What have they done for us?
I'm just curious.
What has Russia done for Russia?
If many of the insinuations and accusations are true, Russia promotes some of the dumbest shit imaginable in the United States.
Well, tough luck.
Tough luck.
You can't take those Lamborghinis with you to Russia.
I don't know.
I've developed a certain schadenfreude, to be honest, when it comes to these tinpot resistance dictators.
And I'm just really tired of listening to the fantasies of right-wingers about how great and strong and trad they are.
And I don't really want to hear it anymore.
Okay. I will answer a question or two.
That was basically the point that I wanted to make.
On Tuesday, I'm going to go more into depth in terms of what has actually happened.
If you guys have any questions, I can answer a couple of ones.
No questions?
All right.
You guys just like to comment.
Which is fine.
All right.
I will talk to you guys later.
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