"Neurodiversity through Webcomics: Using Aesthetic Experiences for Epistemic Resistance"
At the heart of the ideas proposed in today's panel is that of epistemic enablement through trajectories other than propositional, which can be offered by aesthetic experience.
PANEL
"Dancing Toward Epistemic Justice: An Embodied Account of Epistemic Agency"
Amandine Catala and Camille Zimmermann covered the example of dance, an embodied account of epistemic enablement.
PhD Candidate - Philosophy (UQAM)
Camille Zimmermann
zimmermann.camille@courrier.uqam.ca
Professor - Philosophy (UQAM)
Amandine Catala
catala.amandine@uqam.ca
"Comics and Epistemic Enablement"
Luc Faucher discussed the medium of comics in the context of neurodiversity, again as epistemic enablement.
Professor - Philosophy (UQAM)
Luc Faucher
"Neurodiversity through Webcomics: Using Aesthetic Experiences for Epistemic Resistance"
We now continue with webcomics.
PhD Candidate - Philosophy (UQAM)
Mylène Legault
legault.mylene.2@courrier.uqam.ca
PhD Candidate - Philosophy (UQAM)
Jean-Nicolas Bourdon
bourdon.jean-nicolas@courrier.uqam.ca
PREFACE
About the
Format
Force of habit leads us to take the established ways of doing things as fixed, even though they are circumstantial. We were able to explore this reality, for example, during the pandemic: going to the office for work meetings, which, in all honesty, could have been e-mails. We also know that cultural habits are not insignificant, they allow the reproduction of comfortable modalities of interaction for dominant groups: those with the power to choose these modalities.
For our part of the panel, we propose to do things differently. Don't worry, we're not criticizing power point presentations and their timely sip of water pauses. Instead, we're inviting you to explore an alternative modality for interaction.
Public Speaking
Many people hate public speaking. It generally comes with discomforts and even fears, but some people have cognitive profiles that function in ways far removed from this type of interaction. However, this practice is socially maintained and considered essential for meeting and sharing. But is it really necessary? Does the public space absolutely have to be occupied in an oratory and synchronous way? What if these modalities are, in fact, infused with neuronormativity?
Human society is permeated by collective cultural resources with which individuals can, among other things, interpret, understand and communicate various aspects of their experiences. Since they are collective resources, their genesis, maintenance and dissemination are a function of the power dynamics that permeate our societies. One of these power dynamics is organized around norms regarding what is considered appropriate cognitive functioning: the group whose cognition corresponds to the norm (i.e., neurotypicals) dominates and those whose cognition deviates from the norm (i.e., neurodivergent) are marginalized. This epistemic marginalization has the effect of limiting the access of neurodivergent individuals to so-called "collective" epistemic resources, both in their elaboration and in their use.
This norm corresponds to neuronormativity, which is presented by Amandine Catala, Luc Faucher et Pierre Poirier (2021) in their paper Autism, epistemic injustice, and epistemic disablement: a relational account of epistemic agency.
Neuronormativity refers to the prevalent, neurotypical set of assumptions, norms, and practices that construes neurotypicality as the sole acceptable or superior mode of cognition, and that stigmatizes attitudes, behaviors, or actions that reflect neu- roatypical modes of cognition as deviant or inferior. Neuronormative assumptions, norms, and practices uphold standards regarding, for example, (what is neurotypi- cally considered) appropriate eye contact, facial expressions, prosody, conversa- tional flow, processing, and responsiveness—all of which can be difficult for autistic individuals to understand, sense, or apply, due to neurocognitive differences. (Catala & al., 2021)
Catala, A., Faucher, L. & Poirier, P. Autism, epistemic injustice, and epistemic disablement: a relational account of epistemic agency. Synthese (2021).
For a presentation on these questions, see Epistemic justice and epistemic authority on autism, Philosophy of Psychiatry Webinar, Montreal (Amandine Catala)
What’s with all these neuro- words?
Neurodiversity can refer to the neurological or neurocognitive variation naturally present in the human population. The term was first introduced by Judy Singer in a book published in 1993. The term also refers to a growing sociopolitical movement that promotes the recognition and inclusion of natural neurocognitive diversity (see, for example, Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), whose slogan is "Nothing About Us Without US!").
Nick Walker (2012) describes the neurodiversity movement as a new paradigm (the neurodiversity paradigm) in response to the pathology paradigm. It should be noted, however, that this movement has not been and is not immune to certain exclusionary mechanisms. For example, the movement began with verbal autistic individuals, but although the movement has since expanded to include many cognitive profiles, autistic individuals (and more recently ADHD individuals) still seem to dominate the movement.
Walker, N. (2012). Throw away the master's tools: Liberating ourselves from the pathology paradigm. Loud hands: Autistic people, speaking, 225-237.
Some progress can also be noted with the recent publication of "Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm" (Rosqvist et al., 2020), which illustrates the growing acceptance of this sociopolitical movement by the scientific community.
Rosqvist, H. B., Chown, N., & Stenning, A. (2020). Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm. Routledge.
Refers to individuals who fit the norm of cognitive functioning.
Neurodivergence belongs to a normative vocabulary. It requires a norm, which can be qualitative or quantitative, to distinguish typical from atypical neurocognitive profiles among natural neurological variation. However, the narrative is not so simple; cognition is a complex and dynamic process, and simply distinguishing between neurotypical and neuroatypical individuals shapes, at least in part, the cognition of those same individuals. Note that these criteria, quantitative or qualitative, are generally chosen for medical, practical, economic or moral reasons: because a type is considered "more functional", "more adapted, evolutionarily", "easier to interact with", "less demanding in resources" more characteristic of a human life worth living", etc.
Refers to individuals who do not fit the norm for cognitive functioning.
For those who are curious, we address these "neuro- words" here :
- Legault, M., Bourdon, J. & Poirier, P. (2021). From neurodiversity to neurodivergence by way of epistemic marginalization, Epistemological Issues in Neurodivergence and Atypical Cognition. Synthese.
- Legault, M., Bourdon, J. & Poirier, P. (2019) Neurocognitive variety in neurotypical environments: the source of “deficits” in autism, Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science (JBBS), vol.9, 246-272.
This is all well and good in theory, but what does it have to do with our presentation?
What we are trying to say - probably with too many words - is that those with cognitive profiles similar to ours tend to feel unsafe in traditional academic frameworks. This very presentation is the perfect opportunity to experiment with an alternative format where we can occupy the epistemic space and exist as we are. When the parameters of a common space of exchange only correspond to one type of cognitive profile, neurotypical profiles in this case, there can hardly be any exchange that is fair and inclusive. Our hope is that offering this alternative might open this type of space to those who remain outside the exchange.
Although this is an aside before we get into our main topic, you will notice that the form of our presentation reproduces our subject: the online viewing of webcomics, that is, asynchronous interactions around a shared representation, or the infamous content.
What a great question! Of course. If we have different cognitive and processing profiles with different modalities of expression, we can expect adjustments in synchronicity. Strategies for better epistemic justice include suspending judgment, giving the time, respecting varied forms of exchange and being open to different modalities of exchange.
Feel free to contact us for any comments and input into this exploration:
legault.mylene.2@courrier.uqam.ca
bourdon.jean-nicolas@courrier.uqam.ca
PART I
This is Marc, stand in for the author: Yvon Roy
This is his son, Olivier, who is autistic.
Les Petites Victoires showcases the fight of a father for his son, diagnosed with autism "in order to transform an announced defeat into small victories" (sic, our translation).
In his preface, Roy explains the contextualises the creation of his comic book:
"The idea was first suggested to me by a special educator who had worked with my son. She thought that what we had accomplished together was worth sharing so that other parents could find, through our experience, some useful information, if not a little hope" (our translation).
Interview
"When I started working with my boy to help him, with all the professionals in the field, I realized that often we were told, or they tried to tell us, that we had to work on living with autism, on accommodating autism. How we had to deal with different crises, different problems, whereas I thought, well, no, it's better, definitely, to try to overcome it than to live with it. And that's been kind of my master idea, let's say, for years with my boy, which is to try to push the boundaries constantly, always further." (Our translation)
Why choose this comic book?
This comic book is an example of a creation that is easily accessible to the general public that has been awarded and highly publicized - even winning an award that recognizes works written by a person living with a disability and recounting their own experience, or by a third party about the life of a relative living with a disability. In 2018, the publisher Rue de Sèvres announced a contract for a film adaptation, which caused reactions and led to the hashtag :
#boycottlespetitesvictoires
As we will show, this is an example of the social representations of autism that perpetuate dominant understandings that do not fit the lived experience of those directly concerned to the point of being discriminatory. It is also difficult to identify moments when the child (the autistic character) shows agentivity. Instead, he’s passive in his father’s story. In a way, Olivier is only a supporting character. This is exaclty why representation doesn't mean autorepresentation and why "nothing about us whitout us" matters: although this comic is presented as a positive narrative from the allist perspective (3rd person), the story is completely different from the standpoint of the autistic community’s testimonies (1st person).
An allist person is a non-autistic person.
To understand the term "allist", we must go back to the origin of the word "autistic" which comes from the Greek word "autos" which means "self". So the word "autistic" initially referred to a person withdrawn on themself, who lives in their own world. The term "allist" appeared in a satirical article to refer to non-autistic people by swaping “autos” for "allos" which refers to others. So an allist is a person who is focused on others or, to flip the usual narrative, a person who lives in other people’s worlds.
In spite of the satire, the term “allist” has remained in use among others because it allows to distinguish between "neurotypicals" and "allists". There are people who are not autistic, but who are not neurotypical: a non-autistic dyslexic person, for example.
For a deconstruction
of the problematic propositions of the comic book:
But do you know the story from the autistic community’s perspective?
This is where webcomics can serve as an accessible tool that allows the reversal of dominant representations by opening the floor to self-representations directly grounded in marginalized communities. But before continuing with the topic of webcomics, we wish to feature an excerpt from Les Petites Victoires that addresses a frequent theme in autism: eye contact.
Excerpt on eye contact
English translation
English translation
Excerpt from Yvon Roy's interview
"I worked a bit like we can work to sometimes desensitize a substance. Sometimes certain people can have an allergy, we can try to desensitize them.
Several parents have contacted me regarding the trick to get the child to look in the eyes. This is the first thing we worked on together, that is to say, I considered that being able to look in the eyes - we know that autistic children have difficulty looking directly in the eyes - I said to myself, if we don't have eye contact, we have nothing. We need that, it's the beginning of human interaction." (our translation)
TW: The host uses the term “prison” in reference to autism:
"In your story that you shared with us in Les Petites Victoires, there is obviously the moment when you get up to face, to accompany your child in that reality: to learn to understand him too, inside what he lives and this prison, in a way, from which he is pressured which is basically this condition." (our translation)
Link to the interview (in French)
This scene is an example of neuronormativity
Recall that neuronormativity is the prevalent, neurotypical set of assumptions, norms, and practices that conceives of neurotypicality as the only acceptable or superior mode of cognition, and that stigmatizes attitudes, behaviors, or actions that reflect atypical modes of cognition as deviant or inferior.
This scene is told from the allist perspective and is presented with a positive outcome. In fact, as the author mentions, parents have applied this technique with their autistic children after being inspired by it.
But what if we ask autistic people how they feel about eye contact? That's exactly what we are going to do.
PART II
Why webcomics?
The medium of webcomic enables me to do something I don't know how to do otherwise: share how things feel on the inside.
Imagine. You come across a newspaper at the local coffee shop and recognize the face of a well-known personality. Yet you can't remember their name. It annoys you, you know you know it, it’s just not coming out, it stays there, on the tip of your tongue. You have time to come back to work, coffee in hand, and the name still hasn't come back to you, it still annoys you. You come across a colleague and you ask them, you describe the person, maybe clumsily at first (it would be so much easier with their name!), but you adjust to your interlocutor and, together, you can finally recall their name, it was so obvious!
It’s important to emphasize this feeling of annoyance. We rarely take the time to mention this annoyance when talking about epistemic injustices. Yet it is there, and it can even be painful: how do we make sense, to use Fricker's classic example, of our experience of sexual harassment when the concept does not yet exist? How can we share the feeling that something is wrong? This is where community comes into play and it is why the idea of "by and for" matters more than, say, a criterion of simplicity might. This is addressed by feminist epistemologies: for example, Longino argues for pragmatic values in science such as diffusion of power (as the importance of making research programs accessible to the actors involved in the research).
The impact of inadequate social representations on neurodiversity cannot be fully resolved by the traditional narrative of epistemic oppression and justice: adding new vocabulary to collective epistemic resources is not a panacea (we already have the word "autism" for example). So it is not only words that are missing, but rich and diverse lived experiences are also missing from the pool of shared resources.
The problem is that what is missing, the hermeneutical gaps, are not automatically apparent: social representations created by and for the dominant groups inadequately fill the hermeneutical gaps of marginalized groups. To that effect, let us recall here the Handi-Livre prize for the best biography which rewards works written by a person with a disability and telling his or her own experience, or by a third party on the life of a close relative with a disability: In the case of Les Petites Victoires, the award went to the biography of an allistic (non-autistic) person talking about autism. These inadequate social representations are difficult to resist: they are constantly and persistently reproduced. It is even harder when you don't have the words to replace theirs. But do we really have to wait for the right words to share our experiences? This is where illustration can become an attention grabbing action like shouting: an action that does not need words. This is what we propose here: a form of non-propositional epistemic resistance in response to hermeneutic injustice.
Webcomics are basically online comic books. They are mostly instantiated as short comics that take many forms and cover many topics. The most common form of webcomic is probably the blog (sometimes autobiographical, sometimes entirely fictional, sometimes both). Because they are mostly published independently by their artists, webcomics are an art form that is not limited by institutionalized power dynamics such as publishing houses or art galleries.
But the most important thing for us here is that webcomics are able to generate aesthetic experiences that allow viewers to better understand different aspects of the lived experience of neurodivergent people despite the inadequacy of mainstream epistemic resources.
In some ways, webcomics are a digital version of street art.
Although limited to a given geographical space for street art and to a particular digital platform for webcomics, there is this common idea where it is not so much the public that goes to the creation as the creation that goes to the public. We are no longer in a reserved and predefined space like a museum, a bookstore, a gallery or even a library.
Although a recognized artist can make street art, it is more difficult for an artist who does not belong to a complex and influential network to access some places of diffusion such as an art gallery. Webcomic is thus added to the tools that allow the production, use and transmission of more accurate social representations, participating in the collective understandings of the oppressions suffered by epistemically marginalized groups. The public and interactional aspects of social media that support webcomics make them a catalyst for direct dialogue with (but also within and between) marginalized communities.
To put our epistemic resistance into action,
and to enhance our imaginative ressources, we chose to gather first-personal testimonies and descriptions of how eye contact can feel for autists.
After all, who better to provide insight into a given lived experience than those who live it? To do so, we used social media (instagram and facebook) to ask autistic followers of our webcomic (@lilyspectrum): How does eye contact feel to you? Although we are neurodivergent, it was important for us to go with the community beyond our individual experiences. For instance, we would never have thought of the sunburn idea on our own, but once we read those testimonies, it felt right.
Both posts were made on November 8, and three days later, on November 11, we had received 175 testimonies. A few major themes emerged from these testimonies, which we used to base 7 webcomics or illustrations on. Keep in mind that, with this process, we do not claim to represent all there is to express about autists’ first-personal experience of eye contact. In fact, we suggest you visit these posts yourself to better understand the varied responses we got, and are still getting. And who knows, maybe this will allow you to add your own insight.
Publication
Since Monday, we have started to publish these comics on our social networks and we will continue to publish them in the following days
The interactions that take place around such webcomics are, we believe, an integral part of their complete aesthetic experience. These interactions often bring about clarifications, complementary details and descriptions or even added meaning. We thus invite you to visit these posts and interact with the community.
Webcomics
"I can do it but I can’t process anything else while doing it. My natural instinct and what feels the most right is to not look at someone’s face at all"
"It was drilled into me as a "rule" of politeness. I view it as just that, a rule. It's easy when there's multiple people because I can look around. But with one person, I have to look away or I end apparently end up staring"
"Everyone insisted on it, especially when they really wanted to correct a behavior or ensure I was paying attention. I honestly still don't love it, and prefer to look at noses or eyebrows to provide the impression I'm making eye contact"
"Eye contact was enforced during my childhood in mostly abusive ways and while it taught me to fake it, that made me hate it even more. Generally it just makes me uncomfortable and I find it quite distracting but it's also one of the most tiresome things to mask."
"Eye contact feels like they're staring into my soul, but with knives. I can make short eye contact before wanting to cry."
"It takes a concerted effort except for specific people."
"I’ve been so conditioned to make eye contact with people that when I met a lot of my friends for the first time they were kinda weirded out by me unblinkingly paying attention to them when they talked like 👁👄👁"
"It feels like someone is looking right past all my defenses and directly into my head. Not very pleasant."
"Terrifiant, j'ai vraiment l'impression qu'on me transperce à chaque fois …"
"Like I am being stabbed in the brain, itchy under the scalp, or suffocating. Anxiety is anxiety. I look at people's foreheads. They never know the difference but I am not forced to juggle the pain of eye contact and try to communicate. I am mostly non verbal and eye contact guarantees no words."
"Ça me met vraiment mal à l'aise et j'ai peur qu'on puisse mal interpréter si je regarde pas "correctement", je sais pas si je dois regarder quelqu'un dans les yeux ou combien de temps, il faut surtout pas que je regarde autre chose chez lui que ses yeux et du coup je sais pas quoi faire je préfère regarder le mur derrière mon interlocuteur 😂"
"Tout dépendra de la situation, de ma fatigue et de la personne. Certains contacts peuvent être transperçants (douloureux), d'autres envoutants (confusants), d'autres destabilisants (perturbants). En tous cas, si je regarde qqn dans les yeux, je suis sûr de perdre mon fil de pensée et/ou d'accorder mes réponses à ce que la personne ressent."
"Eye contact feels like burning discomfort, especially when I'm being told to do it."
"It’s extremely hard for me to maintain eye contact, and when people express to me that I should be looking at them when I’m talking to them, it puts me under more stress than just talking to them in the first place"
"somehow being told we should be making eye contact feels like being reprimanded as a child, at least to me.. I can't count the amount of times my mother would tell me to look her in the eyes as a child, and how humiliating/stressful it felt.. I legit forget to listen to people because I'm too busy trying to maintain eye contact."
"At best, awkward and uncomfortable. At worst, like someone's stabbed me in the eyes."
"It makes me uncomfortable but my mother forces me to look people in the eyes"
"Painful, but I feel like if I don't look ill be punished or called a liar. So I trained myself to look at something over their shoulder if not their foreheads to avoid harassment."
"Habituellement je regarde plutôt la bouche ou le nez des gens et ça semble passer crème pour donner l'illusion que je regarde dans les yeux (j'ai eu droit à l'expert en haute potentialité qui me disait que c'était impossible que je sois autiste car.. je le regardais dans les yeux ! Je regardais sa bouche depuis le début de l'entretien..). Je ne me force au contact visuel que de manière consciente et dans de rares cas précis : [suite]
(suite) par exemple si je suis attiré romantiquement par quelqu'un et désire que cette personne le perçoive (vu que le contact visuel accru est interprété de cette façon par beaucoup de neurotypiques). Mais cela reste un sacré effort et en général je détourne les yeux très rapidement, ça me met mal à l'aise, c'en est presque physique. Récemment un de nos profs en cours nous a fait faire une série d'exercices où on devait marcher vers quelqu'un/revenir à sa place à reculons en gardant le contact visuel constant avec cette personne.. je vous laisse deviner la torture que c'était"
"Transperçant!"
"J'ai l'impression que les yeux de la personne me percent à l'intérieur, je sais pas comment dire, c'est une sensation d'oppression aiguë."
"For me, looking in the eyes feels too exposed and open. It makes me feel like I can't hide and protect myself from the people."
"Eye contact makes me uncomfortable most of the time, because of the feeling that I am being silently judged or getting talked about negatively."
"It's fine when I'm listening to someone but when I'm the one talking it makes me get stage fright like I'm being put on the spot to judge for performance lol"
"Too intimate, inappropriate… I become incredibly self conscious as well, like am I doing eye contact right? Should I be mirroring their behavior or a close approximation or complete opposite? How many times should I blink? Can they tell I’m faking this human interaction? It’s incredibly stressful."
"It feels like something is a required check box. It’s like a math problem. Look, one, two, three. Okay. Look away. Zone out if you need to. Okay, it’s been 10ish seconds. Look back. One, two, three.. okay, look away! Don’t share at them! Wait! You’ve looked away too long! Look back! …..it’s that on repeat quite often lol"
"I hate it I get so nervous and then I break down."
"I don't like it, makes me really uncomfortable. I'm "good at it", because I mask well (😬). I never know what to do, if I'm looking to much or not enough and always use a whole lot of energy just on eye contact. Generally, the more comfortable I feel the less I look someone in the eyes. (Also eyes as a body part make me feel really icky so that's that)."
"Intimidating and uncomfortable, I feel too vulnerable and keep thinking am I doing this right?"
"Ça me met vraiment mal à l'aise et j'ai peur qu'on puisse mal interpréter si je regarde pas "correctement", je sais pas si je dois regarder quelqu'un dans les yeux ou combien de temps, il faut surtout pas que je regarde autre chose chez lui que ses yeux et du coup je sais pas quoi faire je préfère regarder le mur derrière mon interlocuteur 😂"
"Eh bien, quand j’étais petit, je parlais et écoutais souvent le monde sans les regarder dans les yeux. Maintenant, ça me dérange pas de parler et écouter avec le contact visuel, mais j’peux très bien comprendre ce que le monde me dit sans obligatoirement les regarder dans les yeux. Aussi, c’est vrai que ça me rend un peu mal à l’aise quand des inconnus me fixe du regard. C’est comme s’ils me jugeaient et j’sais pas ce que j’ai fait de mal."
"Direct eye contact feels like I am being judged. It also makes me feel uncomfortable because I become unable to perceive and read the rest of their body language."
"Démunie, nue. Percée à jour. C’est très fort comme sensation, et rarement agréable. J’y arrive avec mes enfants ou mon mari, mais même dans ce cas, pas trop longtemps. Si je veux tenir une conversation, et me concentrer, alors je dois ruser. Je regarde entre les deux yeux ou le plus souvent la bouche."
"Feel nausea and anxiety, and extremely naked. Yet my mother was adamant that I learned it and therefore I am able to do it, despite the uncomfortable feelings. Absolutely love your work, for once I can tell that I am not alone"
"I feel instant stress and I have to force myself to do it and to look "natural"."
"Honestly, each time it happens to me, the most awkward feeling I have is « where should I look exactly » ? When you make eye contact, are you expected to focus one eye specifically (which one, then ?), between the eyes, not focus at all, or try a weird way of having each eye "looking" into the facing one (i.e. my left eye "looking at" their right one and vice-versa) ? I'm also never sure if/when eye contact is expected, and when it happens, is there/what is the hidden message behind this specific contact, and/or am I sending an incorrect hidden message myself ? Then, with all these questions actively consuming my brain "computing power", everything else totally miss the point (sometimes, though, I can hide this issue because I have this kind of ability to "replay" the last few words/sentence I unconsciously heard, to process it with a delay but potentially without the proper context- so it's not reliable at all !!). "
"Weird and artificial. I can actually read people's eyes now, but it took me years to learn it."
"My parents rasied me to always look into the eyes, still feels wrong. Like, I am invaiding a personal space and being rude. Like trying to stare down their soul and violating their privacy. I still try to look at people in the eyes but have learned to just looks in differents points in the face so I don't seem rude."
"Eye contact feels too intimate to me for most interactions. If I make eye contact with you, it’s because it’s important. "
"Eye contact feels very intimate. If I’m forced to hold it for too long, I feel violated, like I’ve been touched without consent."
"I really hate eye contact in almost all circumstances. About the only exception is with someone I'm very intimate with. Eye contact feels extremely intimate to me in general so it only feels natural when it's with someone I've got a suitably intimate emotional connection to. Otherwise it feels like I'm staring into someone's soul and I can see everything and they're staring into mine and seeing the same (even if I know they're not)."
"Invasive, extremely personal. I'm only comfortable looking my husband in the eyes"
"It feels like I’m standing too close to someone, I don’t know if that’s too vague of a comparison but it feels way too intimate. So I only do it when necessary or when I’m comfortable with that person."
"It feels creepy to me"
"I don't like it, makes me really uncomfortable. I'm "good at it", because I mask well (😬). I never know what to do, if I'm looking to much or not enough and always use a whole lot of energy just on eye contact. Generally, the more comfortable I feel the less I look someone in the eyes. (Also eyes as a body part make me feel really icky so that's that)."
"I hate eye contact. It almost hurts. But it’s nessesary to have a successful professional life, and my parents trained me well as a child. They would ask me people’s eye color after I met them to see if I made eye contact. Being trained like that at a very young age was incredibly difficult and felt unfair, but I’m very grateful that they pushed me now that I’m an adult."
"I can't do it, it makes me feel funny in a bad way and makes me feel kind of .. unsafe? and uncomfy I don't exactly know the word for the first one, I don't mind people looking at me but I won't look back"
"It's incredibly intimate and overwhelmingly so, particularly with strangers. And the more my emotions are revved up, the less I can tolerate it. It genuinely feels as though someone can see into my mind almost, even though I know that they can't. On the plus side, when I'm with someone I deeply, deeply love, sometimes that's okay because I want them to see how much I love them... but then that tends to make THEM feel awkward and uncomfortable too. LOL For me, it falls into the same category as standing too close, invading personal space, touching someone without consent etc. It's intimate, and can very easily become violating when you don't want it. And that;s so hard to explain to NT folk who expect you to look them in the eye all the time."
"It's okay with people I know, but I don't feel comfortable with eye contact with strangers, it almost feels like an invasion of privacy."
"eye contact feels so weird and creepy and if i have to make eye contact with someone, then ill quickly feel exhausted."
"It feels like a boundary rupture unless I completely and totally feel comfortable in a container of safety with another it probably won’t happen much."
"Well... I can't let anyone touch my eyeballs."
"Trop intrusif. Comme si l autre avait la perception de mes pensées. C est comme se montrer nue."
"Intense/ overwhelming/ fiery/ intrusive. Sometimes painful/ always difficult with strangers. Ok with intimate friends and family."
"Démunie, nue. Percée à jour. C’est très fort comme sensation, et rarement agréable. J’y arrive avec mes enfants ou mon mari, mais même dans ce cas, pas trop longtemps. Si je veux tenir une conversation, et me concentrer, alors je dois ruser. Je regarde entre les deux yeux ou le plus souvent la bouche."
"Feel nausea and anxiety, and extremely naked. Yet my mother was adamant that I learned it and therefore I am able to do it, despite the uncomfortable feelings. Absolutely love your work, for once I can tell that I am not alone"
"confronting and very intimate ..i feel naked"
"Quelque chose d'extrêmement intime, que je ne peux pas partager avec n'importe qui sinon je suis déstabilisée car je bloque sur cette sensation d'intimité forcée. Depuis le diagnostic, je me permets de ne plus regarder le visage des gens (je ne travaille pas). Quel soulagement!"
"Eye contact feels like they're staring into my soul, but with knives. I can make short eye contact before wanting to cry."
"It’s like being asked to look directly at the sun. I flinch, I can’t do it…"
"It feels like they gonna shoot me with laserbeams. Like Cyclops from X-Men. I van handle it for 10 seconds. I get panick attacks of it's to long. Even with my bf makes me on edge. I got a major panic attack during a being social etc exam (idk how it's in English is). It was so bad. They let me past because otherwise i needed to do the whole year over."
"Feels like I’m staring at the sun and I can only look a person in the eyes for 30 seconds or so before my eyes start to hurt a bit. I can only look animals in the eye."
"Like flames of intense awkwardness are scorching my retinas."
"When I was younger I always had trouble making eye contact. I’ve gotten better at it in recent years but its still painful to me."
"Eye contact feels like burning discomfort, especially when I'm being told to do it."
"Ça me demande beaucoup de concentration. J'ai l'impression que ça me fait mal aux yeux et quand j'étais plus jeune je pouvais même ne plus vraiment entendre ce que la personne me disait. Par contre ce n'est plus un problème quand je me mets vraiment en colère au point de vouloir me battre."
"Ca va de la gêne à la sensation de brûlure, ça dépend des personnes je suppose. On peut parfaitement regarder le nez, la bouche, entre les yeux sans que l'autre ne sen rende compte."
"I can’t think if I have to. Feels like pressure."
"Bad, I feel like my head is going to explode if I look at someone's eyes for too long. I suspect it's probably a blood pressure drop or adrenaline, but it feels awful. I honestly don't get why so many people require eye contact when speaking. I can make eye contact, but it's really difficult to understand what the person is saying because I'm too focused on how uncomfortable I feel and how incredibly awkward it is to stare at someone's eyes"
"It feels literally painful and I’m always afraid the other person can tell what I’m feeling/thinking. I’m comfortable with eye contact with very trusted folks in my life though."
"Painful"
"I really hate eye contact in almost all circumstances. About the only exception is with someone I'm very intimate with. Eye contact feels extremely intimate to me in general so it only feels natural when it's with someone I've got a suitably intimate emotional connection to. Otherwise it feels like I'm staring into someone's soul and I can see everything and they're staring into mine and seeing the same (even if I know they're not)."
"I cant make eye contact with literally anyone. Its uncomfortable, and even when its not, i cant listen proberly to what people are saying when i focus on the eyes. I just cant do it at anytime with anyone, only for one second maximum. Its like staring into someone's soul, its too much."
"J’ai l’impression d’être absorbée par les yeux de la personne et en même temps comme si on pouvait voir ce qu’il y a à l’intérieur de moi."
"honestly it feels like i am being sucked into their soul… i can’t maintain it if i want a conversation because i just get lost"
"Like someone staring at my soul? I almost feel like that's the part of masking that exhausts me the most!"
"It's uncomfortable. But sometimes if I want to intimidate someone I stare deep into their eyes and make them feel unnerved like I'm looking into their soul."
"Tout dépendra de la situation, de ma fatigue et de la personne. Certains contacts peuvent être transperçants (douloureux), d'autres envoutants (confusants), d'autres destabilisants (perturbants). En tous cas, si je regarde qqn dans les yeux, je suis sûr de perdre mon fil de pensée et/ou d'accorder mes réponses à ce que la personne ressent."
"Trop intrusif. Comme si l autre avait la perception de mes pensées. C est comme se montrer nue."
"J’ai l’impression d’entrer dans l’âme de la personne. Je trouve ça trop privé. Alors je ne regarde que ceux dont j’ai vraiment envie de découvrir ce qu’il y a au plus profond d’eux même"
"I'm okay with it for small periods of time, but if it's more than a minute, I have to look away, it makes me super uncomfortable after that"
"It took me around 2 years to be able to do eye contact (kind of struggle still-) but normally if im uncomfortable looking at the eyes, ill just look at the nose instead"
"Awkward. The longest I can probably do it is for a few seconds, but sometimes it’s physically impossible for me to look someone in the eyes even for one second."
"Ça me met juste très mal à l’aise, et du coup je préfère regarder ailleurs et ne regarde les gens dans les yeux s’iels ne me regardent pas."
"Incapable de soutenir un eye contact sauf avec certaine personnes... Ma famille (ma mere, mon pere, ma soeur), ma nièce, mon beau frère et mon conjoint. Quelques amis specifique aussi... Mais sinon incapable. Je chercher tjrs a "évader" ses eye contact."
"Uncomfortable. I have trouble maintaining eye contact for long, especially in a conversation. However, I did figure out that talking with your hands is a great way to distract the other person's eyes from your and gives you a reason not to look at them."
"havent made eye contact with anyone (while i'm talking to them, that is) except my cats in years if that tells you anyone"
"When I was younger, it used to feel like when you held two magnets together both ends the same, it felt like no matter how hard you held them together, it would want to repel forcefully, my head wanted to repel and look past to the left or right or down or up like a magnet would, and when I managed to hold it against that feeling, my eyes would water up, not tears from sadness or anything, but they released tears, now I can manage it but it's still not comfortable to do, it depends on how comfortable I feel with the person or people or how stimulated I feel in an environment"
"It’s like when you hold two magnets with the same polarity against each other. Even if you want to put them together they won’t do it. The magnets are like my eyes. They just can’t center on the other persons eyes or it will cost a lot of energy. Like with holding magnets with the same polarity together. It’s just all in all very uncomfortable and draining. Btw I’m undiagnosed so I hope I can still answer here. Also I really really love your account and the stuff you do ^^ /g"
"Ça me met vraiment mal à l'aise et j'ai peur qu'on puisse mal interpréter si je regarde pas "correctement", je sais pas si je dois regarder quelqu'un dans les yeux ou combien de temps, il faut surtout pas que je regarde autre chose chez lui que ses yeux et du coup je sais pas quoi faire je préfère regarder le mur derrière mon interlocuteur 😂"
"Je me sens obligé de regarder chaque personne dans les yeux mais aussitôt que le contact est réciproque je baisse le regard aussi vite que mon ombre ainsi j'ai l'impression que j'ai fait ma part! haha! Par contre avec le monde avec qui je suis très, très à l'aise je vais quelque fois fixer les yeux, on dirait que j'essaie de comprendre pourquoi je fuis ceux des inconnus, alors je fixe en grand questionnement interne!"
"Awkward and physically painful , strong need to move my eyes away from it"
"Souvent trop intense… Et en plus il se passe tellement de choses autour des yeux qui m'intéressent plus et/ou me sécurisent plus! Je fixe puis je zappe, j'y reviens et je rezappe… Les sourcils, les lunettes, sont des bons compromis aussi, ou fixer mon regard dans le vague direction le visage ou le pourtour du visage… Ou fixer le visage avec une attitude très intéressée (posture corporelle de l'attention soutenue) quand la personne regarde AILLEURS, et quand son regard se tourne vers moi, fixer 1s seconde, sourire, et me tourner ailleurs vers qqn d'autre qui parle mais ne regarde pas vers moi à ce moment là, ou trouver à m'occuper avec un objet, et jongler comme ça."
"Je n'aime pas regarder sans les yeux, je ne sais pas, c'est plus fort que moi, je suis mal à l'aise, je ressens le besoin de regarder ailleurs. Du coup j'aime bien discuter quand je suis au resto ou quand on fait une activité, il y a l'excuse d'être occupée en même temps pour ne pas se regarder"
"Habituellement je regarde plutôt la bouche ou le nez des gens et ça semble passer crème pour donner l'illusion que je regarde dans les yeux (j'ai eu droit à l'expert en haute potentialité qui me disait que c'était impossible que je sois autiste car.. je le regardais dans les yeux ! Je regardais sa bouche depuis le début de l'entretien..). Je ne me force au contact visuel que de manière consciente et dans de rares cas précis : par exemple si je suis attiré romantiquement par quelqu'un et désire que cette personne le perçoive (vu que le contact visuel accru est interprété de cette façon par beaucoup de neurotypiques). Mais cela reste un sacré effort et en général je détourne les yeux très rapidement, ça me met mal à l'aise, c'en est presque physique. Récemment un de nos profs en cours nous a fait faire une série d'exercices où on devait marcher vers quelqu'un/revenir à sa place à reculons en gardant le contact visuel constant avec cette personne.. je vous laisse deviner la torture que c'était"
"Lorsque c'est quelqu'un avec qui je suis à l'aise ca va à une certaine distance mais de trop prêt je ressens un malaise assez vite. Si j'ai le malheur de croisé le regard avec un(e) inconnu(e) dans la rue ou dans un commerce, je regarde ailleurs aussitôt, gros malaise. C'est pour ça que j'évite de regarder les gens."
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Nevertheless, when people base this scenario within political, military, as well as economic realities, it becomes clear that refraining against such actions is not some oversight nor “inane”. Rather, it acts as a fundamental requirement ensuring countrywide survival. Striking independent land in these Americas breaches red lines that would spark catastrophic worldwide results.
Here lies one detailed analysis explaining the reason The Russian Federation will never initiate military moves targeting fossil fuel facilities in the Americas.
https://x.com/indiagreatlol/status/2050986503753351597?s=1
One. A Danger of Mutually Assured Annihilation (MAD)
The main deterrent preventing direct attacks on this United States’ homeland remains the policy of Reciprocally Assured Annihilation.
Direct Act constituting War: A physical strike on US petroleum zones (such as ones within TX, Alaska, or the Gulf belonging to Mexico would represent an unprovoked act meaning combat against this United Nation.
Atomic Escalation: This U.S. owns one of the most advanced and heavily-armed militaries across this globe, next to one huge nuclear stockpile. A direct assault upon critical U.S. infrastructure will nearly surely prompt a devastating conventional counterattack against Moscow’s land, carrying some highly high risk regarding escalating into one atomic exchange.
NATO Clause Five: An attack upon the US and Canada would instantly trigger Clause Five of this North Atlantic treaty, pulling this entirety regarding the Western military alliance into one straight, full-scale war with Russia.
Two. Operational plus Traditional Armed Forces Limitations
Even if the threat regarding atomic conflict were entirely eliminated, Moscow simply lacks this standard armed strength projection ability so as to successfully strike plus severely damage infrastructure in the Americas.
Geographic Reality: These Continents stand shielded by a pair of huge oceans. Projecting standard armed power over the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean is one operational achievement presently only doable through this American States Navy and their carrier attack groups.
Aerial Defenses: To strike American or Canadian oil zones, Moscow’s planes and sea ships will need to bypass Aerospace Defense (North American Aerospace Protection Command) and this U.S. Navy. All incoming aircraft, rockets, or submarines will likely be detected and intercepted long before reaching their targets.
Present Obligations: Moscow’s standard military stands heavily pledged to and stretched by its ongoing war in Ukrainian territory. Starting one second front, endlessly highly difficult thousands of miles away, remains tactically impossible.
Three. The Complex Web regarding Latin America’s Alliances
This prompt mentions different regions of these Americas landmasses. Assaulting energy facilities within Central or Southern Americas makes equally little tactical logic for Moscow:
Allies and BRICS: Numerous large oil producers within these Americas stand either impartial or clearly amicable towards the Russian Federation. Venezuela acts as a key Russian partner. The Brazilian nation is a founding member of this BRICS financial group next to Russia. Attacking these facilities will mean attacking partners.
The Monroe Policy: This U.S. has historically seen this Occidental Half-globe as their sphere concerning control. A Moscow military attack on one South America’s country will likely attract immediate American military intervention, bringing us backward towards the danger of one wider global war.
4. Worldwide Financial Suicide
Power exchanges remain worldwide integrated. If Russia were to anyhow effectively destroy massive quantities of North or Southern American petroleum infrastructure, the financial backlash would heavily harm the Russian Federation itself.
Market Crash: Taking millions of casks of oil off this worldwide exchange instantly will cause fuel costs to skyrocket. While Moscow vends oil, one blow from such magnitude would spark a disastrous global slump.
Impact on Customers: Russia’s primary economic lifelines remain their shipments towards heavy-consuming nations such as the PRC plus the Indian Republic. A global financial crash triggered by massive energy deficits would destroy the production plus export markets from these allies, leaving these nations unable to purchase Moscow’s products and power.
Five. Unconventional Warfare is Preferred
Since direct kinetic strikes are suicidal, nations such as the Russian Federation utilize grey zone” or unconventional warfare alternatively. Rather of dropping bombs upon oil zones, adversaries remain much more likely to employ:
Hacks: Attempting to infiltrate the software that operates pipelines and refineries (such as the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in 2021, although that got attributed towards criminal groups, never straight this Russian government).
Market Manipulation: Working with OPEC+ so as to reduce or raise production to militarize this cost of petroleum, rather than destroying this physical fuel itself.
Disinformation: Financing campaigns to delay power projects or sow governmental division within energy-producing nations.
Summary
Within the domain of major planning, ruining an opponent’s tangible facilities upon the opposite half of the world represents a last-resort measure of total war. Regarding Russia, striking petroleum fields in the Americas would not obtain an advantage; this would guarantee one ruinous military response, estrange crucial geopolitical allies, plus threaten global atomic destruction.
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However, whenever we base such scenario in political, military, as well as financial truths, this becomes evident how refraining from such deeds is not some mistake or “inane”. Instead, it is one fundamental requirement for national existence. Striking independent land in these Western Hemisphere breaches danger lines that will spark catastrophic global consequences.
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The primary deterrent preventing direct strikes upon this American States mainland is the doctrine concerning Mutually Assured Annihilation.
Direct Action of War: One kinetic attack on US oil fields (like as those in Texas, Alaska, or this Bay belonging to Mexico would represent some unjustified action meaning combat against the US States.
Nuclear Escalation: The U.S. owns one among the highly advanced plus heavily-armed militaries across this world, alongside a massive nuclear arsenal. A immediate assault on crucial U.S. facilities will almost surely provoke a devastating conventional counterattack against Moscow’s territory, bearing some extremely elevated danger of escalating into a nuclear exchange.
Alliance Clause 5: Any assault on the US and Canada would immediately trigger Article 5 of this North Atlantic pact, bringing this whole regarding this Occidental military coalition inside one straight, total war with Russia.
2. Logistical and Traditional Military Limitations
Although assuming this threat regarding nuclear conflict was entirely eliminated, Russia just lacks this standard armed strength projection capability to effectively hit and heavily damage facilities in these Americas.
Geographic Reality: The Americas stand shielded through two huge seas. Projecting conventional armed force over the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean represents one operational feat currently solely manageable through the United States Naval force and its carrier attack groups.
Air Defenses: To bomb American and Canada’s oil zones, Moscow’s planes or naval vessels will need to circumvent NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) plus this U.S. Navy. Any arriving aircraft, rockets, and subs would probably be spotted and stopped long prior to reaching these destinations.
Current Commitments: Moscow’s standard military stands heavily pledged to and stretched through its ongoing war in Ukrainian territory. Starting one second front, endlessly more hard thousands of miles away, remains strategically unachievable.
3. A Complex Network regarding Latin American Partnerships
This request mentions other regions from the Americas landmasses. Attacking energy infrastructure in Central or South Americas creates equally minimal strategic logic regarding Moscow:
Partners plus BRICS: Many major oil creators in these Americas stand both neutral and explicitly friendly towards the Russian Federation. Venezuela is one key Russian ally. Brazil represents a initial participant from this BRICS economic bloc alongside Russia. Attacking their infrastructure will signify attacking partners.
The Monroe Policy: This U.S. holds traditionally seen this Occidental Hemisphere like their sphere of control. One Moscow military attack on one South American country would likely attract immediate American military intervention, pulling everyone backward towards the threat of one broader global conflict.
Four. Global Economic Self-destruction
Power exchanges remain globally integrated. Assuming Russia was to anyhow effectively destroy massive amounts of Northern or South American petroleum infrastructure, the financial blowback would severely damage Russia alone.
Economy Collapse: Taking millions of casks of oil off this global exchange overnight would cause oil costs to hyper-inflate. While Russia sells oil, one shock of such scale will trigger one catastrophic global slump.
Impact on Customers: Russia’s main economic veins are its exports towards high-demand nations like China and India. A global economic collapse triggered by huge energy shortages will ruin these production and export markets from such allies, keeping them incapable to purchase Russian goods and energy.
Five. Asymmetric Warfare is Preferred
Since straight kinetic attacks prove suicidal, nations like the Russian Federation use grey zone” and asymmetric warfare instead. Rather of falling explosives upon petroleum fields, adversaries remain far highly probable to use:
Cyberattacks: Attempting to infiltrate the program which runs conduits or plants (such as the Colonial Pipeline malware assault during 2021, though which was attributed towards illegal groups, never straight this Russian state).
Market Manipulation: Working with OPEC Plus to reduce and raise production so as to weaponize this cost of oil, rather of ruining this physical fuel itself.
Disinformation: Financing campaigns so as to postpone power initiatives or plant political split within fuel-creating nations.
Conclusion
Within the realm of grand planning, destroying an opponent’s tangible infrastructure upon the opposite side from the world represents one final step of complete conflict. For Moscow, attacking petroleum zones within the American continents would never secure an advantage; this will guarantee a devastating armed reaction, estrange vital political partners, plus threaten worldwide nuclear annihilation.
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Although looking upon the intense economic warfare, sanctions, and global energy crises of this current era, this remains understandable for one to question how come adversaries do not just attack upon their core regarding these opponents’ assets. From a purely vengeful or disruptive viewpoint, one might ask how come Russia has not attempted to kinetically target petroleum fields within the American Nation and elsewhere within these Americas.
However, when we base this situation in political, martial, as well as financial realities, this becomes clear how holding back against these deeds represents not an oversight nor “inane”. Instead, it is one fundamental necessity for national existence. Attacking independent land in these Americas crosses danger lines which would trigger disastrous global consequences.
Below lies one detailed analysis explaining why The Russian Federation does not take military moves against oil facilities within the Americas.
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One. A Threat regarding Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
This primary deterrent preventing straight strikes on the American States’ mainland remains this doctrine concerning Mutually Guaranteed Destruction.
Straightforward Action of Conflict: A physical attack on US petroleum zones (like as those within TX, AK, and the Gulf belonging to Mexico would be an unprovoked act meaning war targeting this US States.
Nuclear Escalation: This U.S. owns one of the highly developed and heavily-armed militaries in this globe, alongside one massive atomic arsenal. A direct assault upon critical American facilities would almost surely prompt one devastating conventional counterattack upon Russian land, carrying an highly elevated risk regarding growing into a atomic exchange.
NATO Clause Five: Any attack on the U.S. and Canada will instantly activate Article 5 of this North Atlantic pact, bringing this whole of this Western armed alliance into one straight, total conflict against the Russian Federation.
2. Logistical plus Conventional Military Limitations
Although if this danger of atomic conflict was completely removed, Moscow simply lacks this conventional military strength extension capability to effectively hit and severely damage infrastructure in the Americas.
Geographic Truth: These Americas are protected by a pair of huge oceans. Projecting conventional armed power across this Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean represents a logistical feat presently solely doable by this American States Navy and its ship strike fleets.
Air Defenses: In order to strike U.S. and Canada’s petroleum zones, Moscow’s bombers and naval ships would have to bypass NORAD (Northern America Aerospace Defense HQ) plus the U.S. Fleet. Any arriving planes, rockets, and submarines will likely get spotted and stopped long before reaching these destinations.
Present Obligations: Russia’s standard army stands deeply pledged to plus stretched through its continuing war within Ukraine. Starting a second battlefield, endlessly highly hard thousands regarding miles distant, remains tactically impossible.
Three. A Complicated Network of Latin America’s Partnerships
The request states other regions from the American landmasses. Assaulting power infrastructure in Middle or Southern America creates equally minimal tactical sense for Moscow:
Allies plus BRICS: Many major petroleum producers in the Americas are both impartial or clearly amicable toward Russia. The Venezuelan state acts as one key Russian ally. The Brazilian nation represents a initial member from this BRICS financial bloc next to Russia. Striking these facilities will mean striking partners.
The Monroe Policy: The U.S. has traditionally viewed this Occidental Hemisphere as its zone concerning influence. A Moscow military strike upon a Latin American nation would probably draw instant U.S. armed intervention, bringing everyone backward to the danger of a broader worldwide war.
4. Global Economic Self-destruction
Energy exchanges remain globally connected. If Moscow was to anyhow effectively ruin huge quantities of Northern and South American petroleum facilities, this financial backlash would severely damage Russia itself.
Market Crash: Removing millions of casks concerning petroleum away from the global exchange overnight will trigger oil costs to skyrocket. Although Russia sells petroleum, one blow from this scale will spark a disastrous worldwide slump.
Impact upon Buyers: Russia’s main financial veins remain its exports to heavy-consuming countries like China and the Indian Republic. A global economic collapse triggered through massive energy shortages will ruin these production and trade markets from such partners, keeping these nations incapable so as to purchase Russian products and power.
Five. Unconventional Conflict remains Preferred
Because direct kinetic attacks are suicidal, nations like the Russian Federation utilize “gray zone” or unconventional warfare alternatively. Instead of dropping bombs on petroleum zones, enemies are much more probable to employ:
Cyberattacks: Trying to infiltrate the program that operates pipelines and plants (such for instance this Colonial Pipeline malware attack in 2021, although that was attributed to illegal groups, not straight the Russian state).
Market Manipulation: Working with OPEC+ to reduce and raise production to militarize this price regarding oil, rather of ruining this tangible fuel alone.
Disinformation: Funding campaigns so as to postpone power projects and sow political split inside energy-producing countries.
Conclusion
Within this domain concerning grand strategy, destroying some rival’s physical facilities on this opposite half of the world is a last-resort measure of complete war. For Russia, striking petroleum zones in the Americas will never obtain an benefit; this will ensure one ruinous military response, alienate vital geopolitical partners, plus risk global atomic annihilation.
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Although examining upon the fierce economic conflict, sanctions, plus worldwide power emergencies from this current era, it is natural to question why adversaries would not simply strike at their heart of these rivals’ resources. Starting from a strictly retaliatory or interruptive standpoint, one could ask why Russia hasn’t tried to physically aim at petroleum reserves within this United States and elsewhere within the Americas.
However, when we ground this scenario in political, military, as well as economic realities, this turns evident how refraining against such deeds represents not an mistake nor “foolish”. Instead, it acts as one fundamental requirement for countrywide survival. Striking sovereign land in the Americas crosses danger lines that would trigger catastrophic worldwide consequences.
Below is a thorough breakdown explaining the reason Russia does not initiate military moves against oil infrastructure in these Americas.
https://x.com/indiagreatlol/status/2050986503753351597?s=1
1. The Threat of Mutually Guaranteed Destruction (MAD)
The main deterrent stopping direct attacks upon the United States’ homeland remains the doctrine of Reciprocally Assured Destruction.
Straightforward Action of War: A physical strike upon US oil fields (such for example those in TX, Alaska, and this Bay of Mexico) will be some unprovoked act of war against this United Nation.
Nuclear Intensification: This U.S. possesses one of the highly developed and well-equipped militaries across the globe, alongside a massive nuclear arsenal. A direct attack on crucial U.S. facilities will almost surely prompt one devastating traditional counterattack upon Russian land, bearing an highly high danger regarding escalating towards a nuclear exchange.
NATO Clause 5: An attack on this U.S. or Canada would immediately trigger Article Five from this North Atlantic pact, bringing this entirety of the Western military alliance inside a direct, full-scale war against Russia.
Two. Logistical plus Conventional Armed Forces Limitations
Although if this threat of nuclear war were completely eliminated, Russia just lacks the standard military power projection ability so as to successfully strike plus severely damage infrastructure in the American continents.
Spatial Truth: The Continents are shielded by two huge seas. Extending conventional military power over this Atlantic and Pacific Ocean is a logistical achievement currently only doable through the United States Naval force and their carrier strike fleets.
Air Shields: To bomb U.S. and Canada’s petroleum fields, Moscow’s bombers or naval vessels would have so as to circumvent Aerospace Defense (Northern America Airspace Defense Command) and the American Fleet. Any incoming aircraft, rockets, or subs will probably get detected and stopped long prior to hitting their destinations.
Current Commitments: Moscow’s standard military stands heavily pledged towards and stretched through its continuing war in Ukraine. Starting one another battlefield, infinitely highly difficult thousands regarding kilometers distant, remains strategically unachievable.
3. The Complicated Web regarding Latin America’s Alliances
The request mentions other parts from the Americas continents. Attacking power facilities within Central or Southern America makes similarly minimal tactical sense regarding Moscow:
Partners plus BRICS: Many major oil producers within the Americas stand both impartial and clearly amicable toward the Russian Federation. The Venezuelan state is a key Moscow ally. The Brazilian nation represents one founding participant of the BRICS economic bloc alongside the Russian Federation. Attacking these facilities will mean striking allies.
This Monroe Doctrine: The USA has historically seen the Western Half-globe like its sphere of influence. One Russian military strike upon a Latin America’s country will probably draw instant American armed intervention, pulling everyone back to the danger regarding one broader global conflict.
Four. Worldwide Economic Self-destruction
Power markets remain globally integrated. Assuming Moscow were so as to anyhow effectively ruin huge amounts from North or Southern American oil infrastructure, the economic backlash would heavily harm the Russian Federation itself.
Market Collapse: Taking millions from casks concerning oil away from this global exchange instantly will trigger oil costs to hyper-inflate. While Moscow sells petroleum, one shock of such magnitude would trigger one catastrophic global depression.
Impact upon Customers: Russia’s main economic veins remain its shipments towards heavy-consuming countries such as the PRC and India. One worldwide financial collapse sparked by massive power deficits will destroy these manufacturing and export economies of these partners, keeping these nations incapable to buy Russian products and energy.
Five. Unconventional Conflict is Favored
Since straight physical strikes prove suicidal, nations such as the Russian Federation utilize “gray zone” or unconventional warfare instead. Instead of falling bombs upon oil fields, enemies are much highly probable so as to employ:
Cyberattacks: Attempting so as to hack this program that operates pipelines and refineries (such for instance this Colonial Pipeline malware assault in 2021, although that got credited towards criminal gangs, not straight the Moscow government).
Trade Manipulation: Collaborating alongside OPEC+ to cut or increase production so as to militarize the price of petroleum, instead than ruining the tangible fuel alone.
Disinformation: Funding campaigns to postpone power projects or sow political split within energy-producing nations.
Summary
Within this domain concerning grand planning, destroying some opponent’s tangible infrastructure on this other side of this world is one final step regarding complete war. For Russia, attacking oil fields within these Americas would not obtain an advantage; it would guarantee one ruinous armed reaction, alienate crucial political allies, plus risk global nuclear destruction.
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