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        One could say that with every election. It’s always a gamble but when you start from such a low point it really doesn’t matter. Putin is a violent dictator using a scorched earth policy against Ukraine. He is ruthlessly suppressing LGBTQ people to the point where their existence cannot be spoke of. He kills his opponents and is engaged in an ongoing Cold War with the USA. He needs to go.

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          Also, given the lack of a clear successor, Putin’s death would likely lead to a power vacuum and infighting-- which means they’ll be too busy fighting each other to focus on attacking us.

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    https://archive.is/j7NqS if you don’t want to be assaulted by cookie notices and paywalls and more.

    Edit to add: I find it absurd how this logic is used so often:

    He insisted that Russia was justified in starting the war because Ukraine was run by “Nazis”, even though its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is Jewish.

    It’s logical nonsense to think the two are mutually exclusive. Moreover, it ignores the very real issue of Nazis in Ukraine. We even see this “don’t believe your eyes” nonsense, trying to convince people open and proud Nazis aren’t in fact Nazis.

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      Nobody honestly believes Putin started the war to fight Nazis, he just used it as an excuse because he thought the West would stay out of his way for this flimsy lie. Instead he was quickly called out for using resources such as his own Wagner Group in the war which directly recruit modern Nazis, and thus lost all credibility.

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        I’m not sure if you wilfully missed the point of my comment or if I wasn’t explicit enough. I wasn’t commenting on whether or not that was Putin’s motivation. My complaint was with the logic: “there can’t be a Nazi problem in Ukraine, because Zelenskyy is Jewish”. That’s it. That logic is faulty and disingenuous, because that implies there is not a nazi problem in Ukraine, when there absolutely is.

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          There is a nazi problem in pretty much every country, it may just have a different label. This does not justify declaring war.

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            I’ll just quote myself though honestly I shouldn’t respond:

            I wasn’t commenting on whether or not that was Putin’s motivation.

            Note also that did I did not comment on the justness of declaring war.

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        Also, most people bringing up “but the Ukrainian Nazis!!!” are arguing in bad faith (and a lot are fascists themselves, lol). So rather than wasting your time giving a nuanced overview of the far right in Ukraine, Russia, and the West to someone who’s just going to ignore it and reply in bad faith anyways, it’s way easier to just say “Zelensky’s Jewish, lol” and move on with your life.

        (To be 100% clear: I DO NOT THINK THE PERSON YOU REPLIED TO IS ARGUING IN BAD FAITH. This comment is more a blanket generalization, not about this specific interaction.)

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          On reddit I typically ignore them as nearly all are either bots, paid propagandists, or Nazis themselves who are stupid enough to think they’re going to change someone’s mind. But Lemmy is a whole new ballgame, and if the poster IS one of the above trying to be sneaky about sowing doubt, I didn’t want to leave the comment unchallenged for others to get the wrong idea. I mean this whole post could have just been left at “Putin said…” and most of us just have a good laugh and move on. :-)

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        Russia also said demilitarisation and pointed fingers at NATO. If it’s this and denazification, it would suggest that Russia was hoping for NATO/the West to get involved in exactly the way that it got involved.

        Further, the Russian perspective is that NATO was already involved by running a coup then supporting about a decade of shelling in Donbass. If that’s the case – and the important detail here is not what westerners think NATO reps were doing in Ukraine all those years, but what Russia thought – there is no logical scenario in which Western involvement comes as a surprise. It was known to be there before the invasion.

        And if NATO really wasn’t in Ukraine before that invasion, the point still stands: Russia expected NATO involvement even if it’s initial intelligence was faulty.

        That doesn’t mean denazification is the main reason for the invasion. Although there are people who accept that reasoning as it was more than just a Nazi presence. It was an organised Nazi terror campaign against ethnic Russians living in Ukraine, killing thousands.

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          No matter how you look at it, Putin was just swinging his dick around thinking he was a big boy that could tell everyone else where to stick it. I really do believe he thought Russia was a dominant world power, but he’s living in the dark ages and didn’t have a clue that social media can change governments. Zelenskyy knew how to play the game and got people to care about his country again, and that immediately made a difference in how much aid they could ask for.

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            but he’s living in the dark ages and didn’t have a clue that social media can change governments

            Isn’t this supposed to be the same guy who allegedly interfered in US elections using social media to put orange man in office?

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    Irritatingly, this suggests that Putin doesn’t really know if his nukes work. If true, this badly breaks MAD.

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      this suggests that Putin doesn’t really know if his nukes work

      Sweet, more incoherent conspiracy theories backed by Liberal opinion pieces.

      Something something Russian oligarchs used up all the money with corruption and the state forgot to maintain the nuclear warheads (you know, the thing that insures America can’t just destroy the Russian state), pretty tired of this garbage.

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        The Russian “state” rapes its own soldiers, regularly and systematically. And then sends them to go do even worse to the Ukrainian civilians.

        It’s really, really not working right. It’s not doing for its own people what those people deserve.

        And just because you don’t like the US doesn’t mean you should like Putin’s Russia.

        (Me? At this point I’m all for whatever version of socialism or liberalism or social-democracy or whatever that says the Kurdish feminists are right, the Israeli dissidents are right, BLM is right, the Amazonian defenders are right, etc.; — and really, if your government rapes and tortures people, you’re not okay.)

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          Me? At this point I’m all for whatever version of socialism or liberalism or social-democracy or whatever that says the Kurdish feminists are right, the Israeli dissidents are right, BLM is right, the Amazonian defenders are right, etc.

          Liberalism bombed and still occupies Syria, backs the apartheid state of Israel, persecuted the BLM protesters and is currently destroying the Amazon forest.

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            Cool story. Putin’s army is currently raping young Russian men to prepare them to go rape Ukrainians.

            Like, right now that’s an ongoing thing. Not a previous administration, not a controversial doctrine.

            It’s going on right now as you’re reading this.

            Putinism is terrible for Russia. Bushism was terrible for Russia too, but that doesn’t help Oleg who’s being raped by his sergeant right now.

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              Putin’s army is currently raping young Russian men to prepare them to go rape Ukrainians.

              What rag did you hear that from? Condescension aside, I am genuinely asking.

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              And the West created Putin by architecting the illegal dissolution of the Soviet Union and putting Yeltsin (the guy who chose Putin as his successor) in power.

              Not a previous administration

              It’s going on right now as you’re reading this.

              So is the occupation of Syria, the Palestinian genocide by Israel, nothing really changed about systemic racism in America and the Amazon forest is (right now, as you’re reading this) being destroyed, do you just forget things that happen as soon as they leave the MSM schedule?

              It’s not a “previous administration” thing lmao.

              Putinism is terrible for Russia

              Maybe the West shouldn’t have put him in power then?

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                Yeah! The stuff that went on in the 1990s was fucked up!

                Putin’s army still rapes its own recruits and is tearing through the young men of Russia like a psychopath with a chainsaw. They’ve managed to murder tens of thousands of young, virile Russian men.

                At this rate, there won’t be a next generation of Russians unless all of Putin’s buddies have a lot of girlfriends.

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                  The stuff that went on in the 1990s was fucked up

                  Not in the 90s, it’s happening RIGHT NOW.

                  Also what’s with the obsession with mentioning r-word in every reply? It gives off the vibe that you’re glad these things are happening so you have something bad to say about Russia, it’s pretty sick. You instantly jumped to that when I mentioned how absurd the “Russian nukes don’t work anymore” conspiracy theory is.