The Gremlins, 'de-escalation', Putinism and a hypothetical Moroccan attack on Spain

The Putin regime has many useful idiots on the left and far left, but also on the right and far right.

The predictable consequence of Putinism and the deafness of a part of the right-wing
Patriotism and the Russian invasion: Do you ask of Ukraine what you would not accept for your country?

It is not difficult to recognize them, because they all commit the same manipulations, consisting of making us forget the fact that Putin invaded Ukraine out of pure imperialist ambition. They also add to all this a discourse that not only seeks to justify Russia's actions, but also is dedicated to disqualifying any right-wing figure (such as Churchill or Reagan) who appeals to the defense of the West against its enemies.

Today we have a new example of this in La Gaceta de la Iberosfera, which today publishes an opinion piece on Trump's victory in whose final paragraph its author states the following:

"To conclude, Trump's victory is interesting, but not so much for what it might do to irritate the followers of that consistent liberalism that we call "woke.". Observing the reaction of the other part of Western thought is even more amusing. Some turn into gremlins —a film from the Reagan era— at the possibility of a de-escalation of the war in Eastern Europe. One would say that they even feel bad about it."

Leaving aside the nonsense of confusing liberalism with wokism, the author of the article calls what would actually be Ukraine's surrender to Russia a "de-escalation of war in Eastern Europe", which is what many of Trump's followers have been advocating. Trump has promised to end the war quickly but without explaining how, although it's not hard to imagine where this is going, right?

It is worth noting that calling the idea that an attacked country should surrender to the aggressor country a "de-escalation" is manipulation with a boomerang effect, since tomorrow it can turn against your own country, putting some "patriots" in a bind. Translating this manipulation to other scenarios, if Morocco attacked Ceuta and Melilla, should Spain surrender to prevent people from dying? Would the Putinist right also call this surrender a "de-escalation"? How long do you think it will take for Putinist propaganda, which some right-wing people swallow without complaint, to apply this same story to other scenarios?

Similarly, if Russia were to attack Poland, Finland or the Baltic republics (as the Soviet Union did under Stalin between 1939 and 1940), how many would repeat like parrots the same story of "de-escalation" to encourage yet another surrender to the invader?

Otherwise, I can't help but laugh at how shameful it is to compare those of us who support Ukraine to horrendous gremlins in order to discredit us for simply rejecting the criminal aggression of a dictator like Putin. But I return the gesture to the author of this article: if those of us who defend a country criminally attacked by a stronger neighbor are gremlins, what do those who support a tyrant like Putin, whose army commits all kinds of atrocities in Ukraine, deserve to be compared to? Atrocities about which the Putinists never say anything at all and in which Russia has the support of dictatorships like Iran and North Korea. Are these the new referents of the Putinist right?

Finally, the author who signs this today in La Gaceta previously published an article repeating the Kremlin's slogans on March 11, 2022, a few days after Russia launched its attack on Ukraine. In that article, which did not include even the slightest reproach to the invader, the author stated: "Anything goes as long as it annoys the Russian. Even our ruin. And the punishment, by way of economic strangulation, of a country on whose energy we depend is incomprehensible."

This energy dependency was encouraged by some irresponsible politicians - such as Gerhard Schröder and Angela Merkel despite all the warnings - especially from Poland - of what this could entail. Today, the Putinists are appealing to this dependency to prevent Russia from paying for its actions, instead of demanding that this dependency cease, which is what countries such as Poland have been asking for. They want us to be subject to the law of the strongest, they want the aggressor not to be punished and that the consequences of the aggression should be borne exclusively by those attacked. Calling this a "de-escalation" is as repugnant as when some called surrendering to ETA terrorists "peace".