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If Vladimir Putin had stated he was doing this to challenge American/NATO control then I would be sporting a Russian flag right now. But he didn't. Instead he pursued a style of war from the 17th century. It's hard to throw support behind something that economic. However I refuse to support Ukraine as it is just an attempt and keeping the neocon dream alive. I simply don't care about what happens to Ukraine and rather just hope that NATO comes out of this weakened. The three countries leading the anti-western are China, Russia, and Iran. Of these I will only defend one. I despise China for its' pursuit of the western lifestyle and values. The only difference between us and China is that we have multi-party democracies and they are a single party state. China believes in transhumanism and unregulated markets. It believes in consumerism and destruction of traditional values. If not more so than the west. Russia is a mixed bag in so far as it has regulation, it has some amount of tradtional values still in place, and it has some amount of anti-consumerism. But Russia is closely associated with China which in turn skews them. It also still aspires to a lot of western standards (as it always has done). It's leaders have no real aspirations beyond that of money. Iran is the only one I consider to be good in so far as it is run to preserve Persian culture and enforces more tradtional values without straying into ISIS territory. It is (at least on the surface) a healthy society.