https://thespectaclemag.substack.com/p/westerners-are-in-a-state-of-shock
the tweet that broke Western leftists’ brains and why it should surprise absolutely nobody.
Fresh off my Independence Day piece on the state of Ukraine in 2026, in which I argued that the country is being used as a tool of Western imperial interests while its own people are kidnapped off the streets and sent to die, Volodymyr Zelensky has done me the considerable favour of solidifying my position in a single tweet…
The shock that some people are feeling about yesterday’s tweet is not because something new has happened but because they have finally been forced to confront something that has been true all along and which the Western media, the liberal NGOs, the celebrities, and the political establishment have collectively chosen not to tell them…
No, I get it. Palestinian and Ukrainian lives don’t matter to Western “leftists.” But optics do. And treats.
I think they’re just tired.
Im tired* too. Tired of living in a fascist nation while fellow citizens consider us a bastion of democracy while exporting fascism everywhere we can and destroying where we can’t, more* quickly than at home or to nations where we’ve exported it. The west is a goddamn cancer.