The overlap between Kremlin and Russian mob is a flat circle. Dissidents get jailed. LGBTQ rights get trampled. Corrupt oligarchy. Open political assassinations. Scientists getting suicided. Polonium poisoning. Invading Ukraine. Funding Erdogan's army against ethnic populations. Extending the Presidency to a virtual lifetime appointment. Etc.

But somehow any mention of Russia gets poo poo'd and dismissed.

It's amazing that the Trumps and Bidens and Giulianis and Manaforts, etc. get linked to backroom deals, and everyone wants to point out the corruption, but not the partner on the other end.

Russia bad.

  • HarryLime [any]
    1·
    4 years ago

    They want to join the Russian federation because they're fucking Russians.

    • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
      4·
      4 years ago

      so we agree the fascism has nothing to do with it then

      we are left with the fact you think murdering thousands of people on their behalf is cool though

      • HarryLime [any]
        1·
        4 years ago

        so we agree the fascism has nothing to do with it then

        Well, when the central government is on an ideological project to rehabilitate Nazi collaborators and turn them into national heroes who valiantly tried to liberate Ukraine from the tyranny of Russian domination and their Judeo-Bolshevik puppet masters, I'd say Fascism has a lot to do with it. When the government is trying to smother a language that a large percentage of the population speaks, and demonizes a country that a large percentage of the population identifies with, I'd say Fascism has a lot to do with it.

        • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
          1·
          4 years ago

          Nothing Ukraine did justifies an invasion. Fucking regional-national language status is not something you get to kill people over.

          The most egregious Ukrainian nationalism came after Russia got involved, which should be expected and not retroactively used as justification

            • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
              1·
              4 years ago

              Russia didn’t “get involved,”

              see invasion, also "their guy" or whatever-not really; but they are protecting him from justice-Yanukovych killed hundred+ people at Euromaidan, which did have right wing elements--it could even have been fully right wing--massacre-ing protestors is not cash money dude

              especially egregious when it’s Ukraine

              if you wanna talk 1000 years there's plenty of grievances the Ukrainians get to bring up too. That's nationalism, nobody wins.