@First-light

You can hold TRP views on attraction, behavior, and personal standards without losing sight of a core western value: freedom.

Disagreeing with how some Western women live does not mean endorsing tyranny, theocracy, or state violence. The issue in Iran isn’t women wanting Western vices, it’s a regime that beats, cages, and kills its own people for refusing submission to Islamism. That’s not morality, it's tyranny.

Under TRP, a man is free to choose. He’s free to reject women with traits he finds degenerate. But that freedom only exists when the state does not decide for him, or for her, under threat of imprisonment or death.

Men overthrow tyrannies, yes. They always have. But they do it so that their people can live by merit, character, and consequence. Not by compulsory obedience enforced by batons, bullets and death. A society where women are forced into “virtue” at gunpoint produces neither strong men nor moral women, only fear and resentment.

In the West, we can criticize excess, decadence, and decline because we are free to do so. That freedom is exactly what Iranians are fighting for.

May the 20th century with its racist discrimination by skin colour and religion, its horrors beyond counting, and the immense sacrifices our forebears made to prevent such suffering stand as testament that freedom for all mankind is worth fighting for.

They bled and died so that no man would be ruled by birth, creed, or obedience to a tyrant. We dishonour that sacrifice if we shrug when new regimes revive the same old evils under different banners.

Freedom is not negotiable. We will not stand still until that aim is achieved. Freedom for all mankind.

@adam-l I mean maybe, right? It’s a new paradigm so who knows what it will actually look like.

There’s more to, I assume, Russia’s isolation than their expansionism. For a start, the EU and member states almost committed suicide virtue signalling against Russia with the sanctions on Russian oil. The liberal hegemony of the EU has been so complacent over these decades that it hasn’t thought to buttress its position against aberrant behaviour from more powerful entities like the USA.

In short, Trump is calling it out. What the hell are you going to do about it? The EU can’t survive enforcing sanctions on the US, they didn’t prepare for it, like they didn’t prepare for Russian expansion.

Despite this reality, the EU still aren’t signalling a kind of unity or preparation. They’re absent, high on their own supply. In a pragmatic universe, that’s the definition of an unreliable partner. So “we” either shake of the malaise and face the reality of the situation, or we get consigned to the history books.

I know which I’d rather.