• SomeGuy@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I think we all know Russia does not care about fascism in Ukraine. Otherwise this shit would’ve happened ages ago (like, right after Euromaiden). Its a capitalist war for capitalist reasons.

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      It’s a strategic war for strategic reasons. If Russia was feudalist or socialist it would still have done this because it was required by the strategic landscape.

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      I mean, fascism is explicitly anti-Russian. Russia cares very deeply about fascism, even if the modern state has strong reactionary tendencies in other ways.

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        Nazism is explicitly anti-slav. Fascism is just as ghoulish, eugenicist, and horrific, but on paper it isn’t inherently genocidal against Slavs and Jews as Nazism is.

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      Russia jailed their own nazis and few Russian nazis fled to ukraine during maidan. I doubt what Russia could have done at that point. It took crimea back on popular mandate and I think overall they did the right thing. They applied for minsk accords. It’s upto those bastards of Ukraine and Europe who failed to comply with it.

    • I’m sure there are plenty of people in the government who don’t particularly care, but the average Russian almost certainly does, especially when the fascists are killing Russian-speaking civilians; the KPRF was a very prominent voice for intervening to protect the DPR and LPR