Stupid things religious people say

[Rev. Rye]

I haven't had time to watch all 51 minutes, but, from what I've been able to see from his big video on the subject, it's less Pro-Putin and more Anti-Ukrainian. 

My thoughts while watching the video (double speed, FWIW):

• I'm currently 11 minutes in (played at double speed FWIW), and I'm hearing more criticism of Zelinsky (and the morality of the West) than of Putin.
  
•  20 minutes in, I'm seeing more focus on the nomination of Justice Jackson (apparently for being an affirmative action candidate who couldn't define the word woman to his satisfaction). Despite the fact that he's failing to actually make the case that the potential nomination (she wouldn't even be confirmed until the day after tanks rolled into Ukraine) has anything to do with it, he keeps fucking going. And say what you will about the transphobia in his video on Twitter, it was at least relevant to the subject at hand.
  
• By the time he gets back to Russia, he's talking about how her neighbours are falling into authoritarianism and somehow manages to treat Putin as an ALTERNATIVE to that. Because of course it's the left's ideas that are authoritarian and not Putin's. Fun fact, while I was looking for a Cliff's Notes version of his comments on Russia, I found this Reddit post by a Russian (who's lived with the Putin regime since he was two) responding to his comments on Russia, about Putin's authoritarianism.
  
• Bizarrely, he takes aim near the end at COVID restrictions asking when the last time people talked with him face-to-face and not via Zoom. I'd advise Jordy to google "Vladimir Putin Table." 
  
• Also very strange, his preferred solution to the crisis sounds almost exactly wrong-headed. I forget where I read it, but I remember reading that the reason it took almost 70 years between the Communist Manifesto and Russia being the first nation to go full Communist is because, well, most of the other developed nations ended up taking the saner bits of Marx' thought and incorporated them into the pre-existing system. Once the main parties decided to push things like basic labour reforms that we tend to take for granted, there was no room for the Communist Parties to grow. All that was left for them was the stranger shit that typified the Soviet system and alienated the West. Nations like Russia dug in their heels and resisted reform, so all that was left was Revolution. This is an oversimplified theory, to be sure, but I think it's at least enough to throw his big thesis into question.
  

TL;DR: Jordy-Boy's take on the war is less explicitly pro-Putin and more anti-Western/anti-Ukrainian.

 Perhaps if, instead of bitching about Ketanji Brown Jackson and her failure to define "woman" in a way he wanted, he'd actually gone into more detail about the shit Putin actually claimed sparked the war. He mentions that some people think Putin is like Hitler, but he just dismisses the hypothesis; maybe if he went into detail about how he wrote a fucking essay about how Russia and Ukraine have historically been the same nation and that the independent government in Kyiv is therefore illegitimate and forced his entire military to read it. And the fact that he goes as far as claiming that Russia has the moral high ground here makes it really fucking hard to argue that he's not a Putin sympathiser. Maybe if he just left his reasons that the war will keep dragging on more practical (the fact that Putin's simultaneously this fucking brazen and has enough nukes to make the whole fucking world into a Threads LARP is an admittedly damn good reason), his arguments would be more defensible. But what we have here basically comes down to Crypto-Putinism.