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>Why are they sperging out about this?
>Also, why is the media sperging out at all?
It's all about the pretense of being morally superior. Western neoconservatives and other war hawks justify being ambitious bloodthirsty warmongers by saying the the West is morally superior because they are all le liberal democracy. Liberal democracy is the ultimate expression of moral superiority and sophistication for media elites, liberals, and radlib faggots who call themselves """libertarian socialist""" or whatever other radlib faggot leftist LARP that always ends up supporting Western liberalism. According to their virtue signaling faggotry, Russia is not a liberal democracy. It's le ebil autocracy or le ebil authoritarian regime, and no Western leader ought to even be seen publicly talking to them or else they risk validating the leadership of le ebil authoritarian regime.
It's the same cult-like totalitarian mentality that trotskyist synthetic leftists and Western liberals have regarding speaking to libertarians and conservatives:
They say no responsible progressive ought to platform le ebil conservative publicly or else you're elevating them in the public consciousness and helping to amplify their point of view. Every good liberal knows that quietly censoring views they despise is compatible with "liberalism."