I didn't mean to suggest that, but I can see how I didn't make it clear, sorry about that. The Russian Federation is (very obviously) not anywhere near as awful as Nazi Germany, but I am not also going to pretend that it doesn't have a track record of cishet supremacist policies and systematic erasure of ethnic minorities' and Indigenous Peoples' cultures and control over their own land and livelihoods, making it at best a highly reactionary state, foreign policy/current conflict notwithstanding.
Back to the point of my post, what I was trying to explain was how I understood the liberal association between Nazi Germany and the Russian Federation, because someone historically illiterate would look at a country that:
is (wrongly) believed to be lead by an autocratic ruler and a small group of militaristic, corrupt elites.
has reactionary internal policies
is engaged in (what has been widely propagandized as) a war to take over another nation's land. I don't agree with this read, but the average liberal thinks that the war's sole goal is gaining territory, because again, historical illiteracy.
And say "wow this is just like 1939", because their understanding of geopolitics is based on a surface understanding of WW2 and the metric tons of propaganda that have been in production since february of 2022. It's neither right, nor accurate, but it is the way the most propagandized liberals will understand it, because as I said, it allows them to cheer for the total annihilation of the Russian people without giving it a second thought.
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I didn't mean to suggest that, but I can see how I didn't make it clear, sorry about that. The Russian Federation is (very obviously) not anywhere near as awful as Nazi Germany, but I am not also going to pretend that it doesn't have a track record of cishet supremacist policies and systematic erasure of ethnic minorities' and Indigenous Peoples' cultures and control over their own land and livelihoods, making it at best a highly reactionary state, foreign policy/current conflict notwithstanding.
Back to the point of my post, what I was trying to explain was how I understood the liberal association between Nazi Germany and the Russian Federation, because someone historically illiterate would look at a country that:
And say "wow this is just like 1939", because their understanding of geopolitics is based on a surface understanding of WW2 and the metric tons of propaganda that have been in production since february of 2022. It's neither right, nor accurate, but it is the way the most propagandized liberals will understand it, because as I said, it allows them to cheer for the total annihilation of the Russian people without giving it a second thought.