Interesting question and definitely worth debating. There may be some strategy that the anti-war left could devise to take advantage of this. However, personally i’m convinced that 95% of the conservatives that we see adopt an anti-war position now with respect to NATO’s proxy war against Russia would a) have a different position if the target was China, and b) change their tune very fast if their party was in power. Most of them are not principled, with the exception of a handful of paleo-conservative libertarians of the Ron Paul type (and they shouldn’t be trusted either, they may be aligned with us on this one particular subject, but they have their own ideological brain worms that are totally incompatible with what we on the anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist left are working towards). Most are just being contrarian and adopting whatever they perceive to be the anti liberal establishment position at the moment. Remeber that these are the same people who are unhinged anti-vax conspiracy theorists and climate change deniers. These people are not and will never be allies.
Interesting question and definitely worth debating. There may be some strategy that the anti-war left could devise to take advantage of this. However, personally i’m convinced that 95% of the conservatives that we see adopt an anti-war position now with respect to NATO’s proxy war against Russia would a) have a different position if the target was China, and b) change their tune very fast if their party was in power. Most of them are not principled, with the exception of a handful of paleo-conservative libertarians of the Ron Paul type (and they shouldn’t be trusted either, they may be aligned with us on this one particular subject, but they have their own ideological brain worms that are totally incompatible with what we on the anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist left are working towards). Most are just being contrarian and adopting whatever they perceive to be the anti liberal establishment position at the moment. Remeber that these are the same people who are unhinged anti-vax conspiracy theorists and climate change deniers. These people are not and will never be allies.