buddy,

The perverse inversion is that the moral measure for *progressives* is no longer the dignity of human beings. Now it is this ineffable imperative to “save the planet.”

I do think that nationalistic Putinism is a moribund reflex of a dying beast. In part, that is why the world’s media has been so cautious about the Russian claims of genocide and atrocity in SO – the whole scenario is so disjointed from the globalist narrative.
The Al Gore environmental crusade seems to be the new growth tip of totalitarianism and I think that it reveals in young westerners a yearning to be good, moral, obedient sheep without the burden of being complex human beings.