see your point, but "bizarre fantasy" is pure great man theory. my point is that Putin's personal preferences are LIBERAL BULLSHIT, this is a state expressing the will of its national bourgeoisie. doing psychiatry on Putin really grinds my gears, just liberals in free fall

Even if it was true, it's kind of a strange point. It would be like if the US army opened a regiment that wears swastikas and sieg heil to Hitler. Even if not literally every person in the army was part of this regiment... the fact the army would open this in the first place speaks to a much greater problem.

Libs use this logic all the time and it's just ridiculous. Yes, not literally every person in the Ukrainian armed forces is part of Azov Battalion. Yes, the Svoboda party which openly calls itself a "Social-National" party only has 2% in parliament. But the very fact these people get support at all speak to a much wider problem.

The point of showing Azov Battalion or whatever is not to show that the entire Ukrainian population is part of these organizations, but to show symptoms of a much wider problem. And this wider problem is that "Ukraine had more anti-Semitic incidents than all former Soviet countries combined". That's a study done by the Israeli government itself, so libs can't say it's a "biased Russian source."

Other symptoms include putting up statues and naming streets after the Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera who literally participated in carrying out the Holocaust, and banning books that criticize him. Libs like to treat every single incident in complete isolation to try and ignore the clear underlying problem that has lead to this.

Also, another piece of evidence that neo-Nazism is not just limited to Azov Battalion is that the Ukrainian National Guard literally just a few hours ago tweeted in support of them putting pork fat on their bullets to kill the Muslim "orcs." They clearly represent the attitude of the National Guard in general.