As a reflexive contrarian from way back, the danger of being that way is that it does tend to lead you to doing assclownish things like supporting Putin if you’re not also a reflective contrarian.

Ian Welsh used to be the latter. Now he’s not. If it hurts America, he’s all for it. Even if it harms him too. There are too many others like him.

I truly do wish these clowns would go fight in Putin’s meat waves. But then that’d actually help Putin too, so I guess I’m not really for that. Not much help, admittedly — they’d all be killed in the first 10 seconds of any combat. But still, even marginal meat helps Putin.

Dammit.