Paleos and Putin

As a card-carrying member of the Old Right for the last 50 years, having suffered the slings and indignities that come with it, I am responding to other members of my fraternity who can’t bring themselves to condemn Vladimir Putin for his invasion of Ukraine and his destruction of its people. 

This recognition of Putin’s aggression and what it might portend for Ukraine’s neighbors to the west has not been lost on Europeans, including Europeans on the Right. Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour in France, the Alternative für Deutschland in Germany, and the present conservative governments of Hungary and Poland have all been on record condemning Putin’s brutal invasion. None of these figures is in love with wokeness or has kind words for what now passes for constitutional government in the West, but they do understand that Putin is a Russian expansionist and that the murder and mayhem he is now raining down on Ukrainians is nothing new. He unleashed even worse atrocities in Chechnya and later in Syria.

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