great comment. you inspired me to read more from Discourse on Colonialism and I already found this banger in the leadup to the above quote:

“It is not by losing itself in the human universe, with its blood and its spirit, that France will be universal, it is by remaining itself.” That is what the French bourgeoisie has come to, five years after the defeat of Hitler! And it is precisely in that that its historic punishment lies: to be condemned, returning to it as though driven by a vice, to chew over Hitler’s vomit.

I have read accounts of white settlers in North America in the 19th century. They were every bit as deranged as Israeli settlers. There was frequent conflict with the US Army but that was only because settlers always have a reach that exceeds the grasp of what the military can support. But I suspect white settlers in North America were far more reliant on support from the military than Israeli settlers are with the IOF due to the distances involved, so perhaps that allows Israeli settlers to be even more hostile to the military. Also, Palestinians are forcibly kept more defenseless than Native Americans were, at least so it seems to me.

it’s kind of unimaginable at this scale, but settlers given the slimmest autonomy & obligations to a distant government pretty much always have an impulse to take affairs into their own hands. Mormons, Martin Cortez & the encomienderos, Revolt of San Tito on Krete—but these motherfuckers are like, right next to the ‘proper’ state and have everything provided to them by that state. they aren’t responsible for getting the grain for the metropole or getting unfavorably taxed to my knowledge.

this could really be a new leaf in settler derangement and entitlement tbh

Bacon’s Rebellion, which, yes, is more-or-less your second paragraph.

anybody know of any historical precedents to this sort of thing? as in, settlers go “no! you’re not doing fascism hard enough! we must take over the bases and force them to do genocide EVEN HARDER!”

the closest thing I can think of is American settlers marching into Native American territory and settling there under the belief that the American government would protect them…

I mean, you could also say it’s essentially one of the major reasons for the U.S. War of Independence (that and preserving slavery; also somewhat related).

Maybe a good example could be the US independence, one big turning point was Britain banned the settler from expanding into native territories that were allied to london, which made the US landlord class angry with the crown

I mean, trying to coup the government because they aren’t doing war hard enough is what the whole Wagner thing was. Obviously different wars there, no moral equivalency, but you get the idea.

The radical evil of fascism has always been underestimated because normal decent people simply don’t think the thoughts fascists tend to think

The military failure set the stage for this

not enough

I’ll believe it when DW starts to panic.