Critics say the Kremlin is to blame for the rise in neo-nationalist movements, arguing they have been allowed to flourish in recent years.

Unlike many human rights activists and the country’s marginalized gay community, neo-nationalists have been allowed to hold rallies – a right guaranteed by the Russian constitution.

Yet amid this crackdown, President Vladimir Putin’s government has also sought to forge its own state nationalism – and used elements of the ultra-nationalist agenda in its increasingly anti-Western, neo-conservative and isolationist ideology

many ultra-nationalists fled Russia – sometimes preferring to fight in eastern Ukraine on both sides of the conflict.

The largest players in the field of official, Kremlin-sanctioned nationalism are the deeply conservative and immensely powerful Russian Orthodox Church, the resurgent “armies” of Cossacks, czarist-era paramilitary forces, and right-wing parties.

the Kremlin cultivates ties with [far right groups] in the European Union to promote Moscow’s agenda. (…) representatives of Western far-right political parties, including neo-Nazi groups from Germany, Greece, and the UK, met for a Kremlin-funded conference in St Petersburg

Very strong antifascist culture indeed.

It’s largely arms and ammunition.

And the idea that we are saving money by provoking a nuclear power has got to be one of the craziest things I have read in quite some time.

What does them having nuclear weapons have to do with anything? Either they’re in the wrong for invading a sovereign country or not (although international politics is never about right and wrong, but it’s about power). Just because they have nuclear weapons they should be allowed to do whatever they want? So the US should be free to invade any other nation without consequences too, right? What a joke.

If we’re removing the need to maintain old equipment, it’s removing a cost. The cost was maintained to fight Russia, and this weakens Russia, so future costs are decreased. It saves money, right? It doesn’t matter who is provoked. It doesn’t change that fact. Sure, we’re also sending aid and other things, but the goal is to create a good outcome for the US. Ukraine produces a lot of food, so securing them is in our benefit, along with any other agreements. You can disagree with this if you want, but that’s international politics. Russia wanted the same except with total annexation and subservience. I’d say remaining autonomous is a better outcome for them.

Wasn’t Bucha the place that had pictures of bodies with the white armbands (Russian collaborators in occupied territories) and Russian ration packs in the background and everyone was like “Russia did this!”

How much Russian do you speak?

Bombing Russian civilians bad, bombing Ukrainian civilians good, right?

Well maybe. Humans are the worst. However we have evidence that russia is killing more than taking prisoners and kidnapping children.

Also every information we get about this war is most probably placed in the internet on purpose. You can’t trust either Ukraine or Russian news.

If they’re Ukrainians, why the interviewer says “Добрый день”, in Russian (notice how the “e” is pronounced “je”) instead of “Хороший день” or “Добрий ранок”, in Ukrainian (notice how the “e” is pronounced “e”)?

Yes and you can neither trust the western news. The Nato and the west uses the conflict to their own purposes. Like every country does. This fight between Russia and the West isn’t new. We’ve seen it long before.

I totally disagree with the war but i also find it irresponsible to only speak up when “bad commie Russia” does something. But when the US kills thousands of civilians in completely unjustified wars around the world nobody cares in the west.

Since the fall of the Warsaw pact there is no more any justification for the existence of the Nato alliance.

I’m anti-war and i think this should end as quickly as it began but what Zelensky is doing is no more than selling out his country to the west. For the next centuries Ukraine will be in debt to the western nations and by that, enslaved by them.

If zelensky would care about his people he would come to the table and find an agreement with the other side. Everyone has to make compromises in this war. No side will have a total win, but a first world war like trench war that takes years isn’t helpful to neither of the sides. Only more people will die. What is more important, that the people live in Russian donbass or Ukrainian donbass, or that the people will die.

Also the west doesn’t care about Ukraine, all they care about is hurting Russia. Some years back nobody in Europe or Nato would’ve considered Ukraine as a viable partner. Now out of nowhere they do

Yea bud, put down the Xbox controller and go touch some grass. War isn’t like Call of Duty

No, you said you assumed shit like that happens during war on both sides.

Shouting “whataboutism” every time someone brings up context isn’t lazy?

You can judge governments against perfection, you can judge them against the governments they replaced, or you can judge them against peer governments. The two realistic options involve comparisons, and those types of comparisons happen to be a key component of what passes for international law, too.

Fascinating that you decided my comment was worthy of being called out for being lazy, yet the comment that does not engage with the discussion, instead discarding it as “whataboutism” gets no such scrutiny from you. It seems as though your issue isn’t truly “lazy thinking” but instead wether or not I support your worldview.

I will stop as soon as the gut-reaction to context isn’t to regurgitate an old thought-terminating psyop.

The only other tactic they have is ChatGPT generated word salad though.

Of course! They vote regularly! Sometimes even double the population of a city is voting!

Technically he is right with the latter, and there are minorities which get official status and lots of love from Ukraine’s government, like Crimean Tatars (less native to Crimea than Greeks and Armenians, despite the name), and there are those who get less of that (Greeks, Armenians, also Poles and Hungarians). I mean, Russian and Ukrainians policies on minorities are kinda similar.