> until outside nations supported violent overthrow of a democratically elected government which followed its rise to power with oppression of an ethnic group.

> until outside nations supported violent overthrow of a democratically elected government which followed its rise to power with oppression of an ethnic group. The trouble with this narrative is that it's fictional and not supported by facts. It is no different from Hitler's delusions about global Jewish conspiracy against the Germans. One can subscribe to these narratives only if they accept known falsehoods as the truth and reject many facts as lies. Even rhetorically, arguments like the oppression of ethnic Russians in Ukraine are preposterous given how Russia has become one of the most oppressive places on the planet. Such allegations sound like Hitler justifying the bombing of London with the way the English treated the Scots or the Irish - while turning a blind eye to the Holocaust going on at home.