Just as individualising Putin 'evil' (for a lack of a better word) is dumb, and you are right to call it out, pushing it on something such as 'values' isn't gre

Just as individualising Putin 'evil' (for a lack of a better word) is dumb, and you are right to call it out, pushing it on something such as 'values' isn't great either. The material conditions that enable Russian society to be this violent (and this isn't a new thing btw, it's hundreds of years old) are complex, and imho 'values' have pretty much nothing to do with it.