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Ukraine was a magnet for foreign fighters. After 2 bruising years, many are disillusioned or dead.
(www.businessinsider.com)
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And good thing too. I don't want to think about how many newly- experienced western fascists would have come back home from a victorious Ukraine, or even just one that can keep it's air defenses up. It's one if the few upsides to this wretched meat grinder war- The hardened nazis who would ordinarily train allies in other countries (like fascist militias in the US) are now largely too dead to do so.
It's extremely difficult to sympathise with the kind of people who volunteered to go to war alongside a Banderite Nazi regime. You could argue that they were stupid or misled but then you need to extend such apoligisms to Zionist mass murderers, original Nazis etc... We all have the capacity of free will and are responsible for our actions in life, even if we were manipulated.
What fascists are you talking about? Ukraine is not the fascist party in this war. One of these sides is a dictatorship in all but name.
Is it the one that has actual elections or the one that doesn't?
The one that pretends to have elections where political rivals mysteriously die.
Navalny was a far right racist nutcase who was polling around 3%. There were massive queues for Russians voting in places like Paris with polling of them reflecting the election results. He's a wartime president who's saved them from the west. The people remember what happened last time the west got its claws in. The results are completely unsurprising.