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Good job, Ukraine! Russia must be destroyed in its current fascist form.
by option 2mo ago
Good job, Ukraine! Russia must be destroyed in its current fascist form.
- louthy 2mo agoI don’t think it’s fascist? More of a kleptocratic dictatorship. I agree with the general sentiment though!
- gattilorenz 2mo agoAlso “ethnocentric”. But as usual, we first need to have a shared definition of fascism. If we use Eco’s Ur-fascism, many aspects are there (the moral and cultural decadence of the West, which is both too strong and too weak)
- flohofwoe 2mo agoFor not being fascist, the propaganda and general 'optics' and messages coming out of Russia sure look a lot like Germany in the 1930s, and Ukraine is basically the same playbook as Sudetenland - both started with a claim that a suppressed German/Russian minority must be protected from atrocities by the Czechoslovakian/Ukrainian 'aggressors' by integrating those lands into the 'Reich'. Thankfully Putin is by far not as successful bringing a much smaller country to its knees than Hitler was.
- red-iron-pine 2mo agothe guiding intellectual stream of the Russian government is Dugan, as best exemplified in Foundations of Geopolitics. Dugan is unambiguously hard right and has intellectual ties to other openly fascist types. His ideology is explicitly ethno-centric and has a strong resemblance to classical Fascism (in the Ur-Fascism sense), and a looser one to German-style National-Socialist thought, esp. as it relates to Russian ethnic domination of Europe
- igravious 2mo ago[flagged]
- RivieraKid 2mo agoThe US is providing some help but less so than Europe and much less so than what Ukraine is contributing. And by saying "to the last Ukrainian" you're spreading a Russian-propaganda narrative. This slogan has been repeatedly used by Russian officials (including Putin, Peskov, Zakharova, Matviyenko), it's a recurring theme in the Russian information space and it's used by Russian bots.
- distances 2mo agoHe's spreading overtly obvious Russian propaganda, he's clearly very aware of it and just prefers to take the side of evil.
- igravious 2mo ago[flagged]
- konart 2mo agoWell, he is russian. It's pretty obvious to any other russian simply from the way he composes his replies.
- distances 2mo agoYes, but he has access to free information, so can easily check what is the current and historical Russian contribution to the world. At that point, siding with Russia is of course an active stance of supporting the crimes of Russia. Patriotism is not a valid excuse if your motherland is always the aggressor.
- konart 2mo ago>is always the aggressor Well, lets's be honets: not always. But, yes, he's a your typical example of a paid bot or a genuine low IQ nationalist. Quite a few of them here.
- drysine 2mo ago[flagged]
- thrance 2mo agoIt would be like calling Roosevelt a fascist because he said "Nazi Germany as a nation has no right to exist". It's ridiculous.
- drysine 2mo ago>It would be like calling Roosevelt a fascist because he said "Nazi Germany as a nation has no right to exist". "Nazi" is doing all the heavy work in your argument, separating German people and Nazi ideology. There is no such separation in Ukrainian defense minister's words.