We go back decades. Around the 2016 election cycle he had a pretty severe psychological episode and he became hyper-fixated on politics. He self-medicates with various substances on top of the actual medication he takes. He stays up days at a time and consumes political content, then posts entire essays into my inbox while arguing with people online on like 20 different tabs. I've learned to just ignore the political stuff
He's a breadtube sort of leftist that used to send me videos of that one greasy debate bro we're not supposed to mention, though that was a few years back before some of his controversies including the recent one that I think kind of ended his career
He's also been sending me every single article about Donald Trump for like 8 years now
and massacre Ukrainians en masse if they win. He also believes that if Putin isn't taught a lesson now the Russians will do the same to other neighboring states next, because they're monstrously evil barbarians apparently
But broadly speaking all the stuff about Ukraine being Nazi-riddled as a casus beli falls flat when Putin has been happy to use far-right-wing groups like Russki Orbaz for his own benefit, and I don't think Russia is really a credible threat to western hegemony like China is, so I don't see how supporting Russia would be meaningfully revolutionarily defeatist.
I don't even support Russia. I'm just annoyed Ukraine having a frightening amount of militant Nazi psychos is now apparently disinformatsiya invented by the Kremlin when Western press was regularly mentioning the problem before the war.
They see Russia and Israel as the greatest threats to world peace. I'm just kicking myself for saying anything at all about the Ukrainian military and their love for Nazi iconographyesoteric occult symbols traditional Slavic imagery. I have no interest in litigating this shit
He's otherwise a good friend?