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@AnthonyJK

the Ukraine war has really NATO pilled a lot of people, and the whole question of nuclear war is something they really don't want to deal with -- i like the cognitive dissonance that 1. Putin is an unhinged madman but 2. He would never escalate to nuclear war

and yeah idk, Putin seems pretty rational, evil sure, but he's acting within the limits of imperialist real politic, obviously Ukraine is important strategically for Russia, it's not just because Putin is an unhinged lunatic, the US or any western power would do the same thing. In fact, were Russia allied with the West America would help them fight Ukrainian 'terrorists"

I don't really agree with you though about the characterization of Ukraine as run by Nazis, not to downplay the brutality committed by Ukrainians against ethnic Russians but let's not act like this happened in a vacuum, there's both centuries of Russian colonization and Recent provocation by Russian, exacerbated by Western interference... and there is certainly a fascistic streak in mainstream Ukrainian nationalism but it's more complicated than them all being nazis, Far Right Parties repeatedly lose at the ballot box, their ideology is more of a pan-euro liberal democratic thing within the context of mass war mobolization