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Fuck Ukrainian Azov Nazis and fuck anyone who defends them
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Footmen don't call the shots, unlike in Ukraine.
My point isn't that russia is fascist. My point is that if Putin wasn't lying about his antifacist justifications, he wouldn't be sending nazis to "de-nazify" Ukraine.
We've got every photo of Ukrainian troops as evidence they're largely Nazis. We've even got public statements by Ukrainian senior leadership about exterminating Russians and sympathizers in any territory they recapture. What's your proof the same is true about Russian troops or leadership? As far as I'm aware, this "Wagner are Nazis" theory comes from one single picture of the shit bag who used to be in charge of Wagner but isn't any longer.
edit: while I'm thinking about it - what is your obsession with Putin? Do you understand that the war is popular in Russia? That Putin is more popular now than he was before the war? That a very common sentiment in Russian elected government and the citizenry is that the war hasn't been prosecuted hard enough? If Putin were couped by Russians the war would almost certainly get kicked into high gear and the Russians would start honestly trying to capture all of Ukraine. This great man theory obsession with Putin himself is just off the mark.
You're right that the Ukrainian military is filled with Nazis (this doesn't mean all of them or a majority are consciously, but it does seem to be getting difficult to deny that now given the amount of evidence, at least when not of Ukrainian kids just pulled of the street).
However the idea that there is not a far-right presence in the Russian military is also not very believable, not least because we are still talking about a military state of a quite right-wing, nationalist, capitalist country. This in no way makes it equivalent to Ukraine however, because in Ukraine it appears to be far more integrated at every level of the military and state to be point where it appears like ultra-nationalism, bleeding into fascism, are the status-quo ideology.
Leaving aside the difference between "far right presence in the Russian military" and "explicit, patch-wearing, self-identifying neo nazis directly in leadership positions all over the Ukrainian state and military", this is the point I am making. Whether there are right wingers in militaries isn't even worth discussing - the answer is yes. Russia doesn't have nazi units, they don't have nazis in charge, they haven't been doing pogroms for eight years, and to try to equate that with Ukraine is just outright wrong.
Yes I agree.
I don't agree with your analysis, but to take your example for a moment I'd argue that sending nazis into a meat grinder of a war to fight other nazis is a pretty good way to kill two birds with one stone.
I remember one comment about conclusion of battle for Artemyovsk (Bakhmut), especially the losses: "Ukraine emptied its universities, Russia emptied its prisons".
By the way, my first comment on Hexbear, love from lemmygrad, comrades
Congrats! Your first comment was a good one, I'd forgotten that comment. A less giant
right back at you (unless it is giant, I can't get used to all this yet).
Emoji sizes are sometimes mysteriously bungled, mine look like that for me:
spojler
While yours i see as HUGE:
spojler
That's what yours look like to me! It's sort of annoying but also sort of fun.
It seems that we both recieved a much bigger hugs than we gave XD