The article <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2025/08/27/patrick-lawrence-trump-the-russophobes/" source="Scheer Post" author="Patrick Lawrence">Trump & the Russophobes</a> was written near the end of August---about two months ago---and discusses the U.S.'s obsession with just absolutely <i>hating</i> first Bolsheviks, then the Soviet Union, and now Russia. <bq>I say this because <b>Russophobia is about more, much more, than near-term geopolitical strategies and policy choices.</b> This is a question that goes to the ideology that <b>makes America America</b>, to the collective psyche, to Otherness and identity (which are intimately related in the American mind).</bq> It's not just the U.S., though. People in Europe and Switzerland are just delighted to believe the most transparently false and outright implausible fairy tales about Russia's aspirations and abilities. I've talked to many people in Switzerland who are 100% convinced that "defeating Russia" should be not only a top-priority goal for Europe but also for neutral Switzerland. It's no wonder, of course, as every news agency in Switzerland cheerily repeats this viewpoint day after day after day after day. No-one---not the media nor its willing dupes---has no idea what would come next, of course. They just know it's super-important that Russia lose. When pressed, they say it's because we need to show that "you can't just attack other countries." When pressed further about Libya, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Yugoslavia, or Afghanistan (an incomplete list of targets of NATO in the last quarter-century), they run out of words if they have any moral compass and they splutter about those not being the same thing at all, if they don't. The article wondered, two months ago, <img attachment="trump_in_a_china_shop.webp" align="right" caption="Trump in a China Shop"><bq>Can Trump put a long, regrettable past thoroughly into the past, or at least set America on a path such that it may <b>finally embrace the 21st century instead of continuing to fall behind in it?</b></bq> I wrote at the time: HAHAHA. No. He will almost certainly fuck it up. It is unfortunately too delicate a solution for the bull elephant to find by stumbling about. That's even assuming that he actually wants that solution. Or that he can summon the concentration to actually get it. The last two months of increasingly insane and criminal bullshit has borne out my negativity.