I’ve read the book. Russia isn’t unequal based on racial identity. You could make the case it’s more sexist and that misogyny is a form of fascism too. But state policy is that the genders are equal. Putin is a sociopath, a dictator, a tyrant or a totalitarian, but he’s not a fascist.

Mobilizing and going to war simply doesn’t make a country fascist. You’d also have to apply the label to all countries who joined the illegally war on Iraq and Afghanistan.

I hate Putin’s Russia. Mostly because of the decades of agitprop he pumped into destabilizing western democracy and his climate change denial. He and his cronies deserve death.

But that doesn’t change the historical facts of how regime change came about in Ukraine, that the CIA/NED funded the main Euromaidan organizer and collaborated with the extremist right wing forces there. It doesn’t change the fact that Ukraine is being used by the US and now the EU to bloody Russia, for geopolitical purposes. It doesn’t change the fact that NATO is historically and in fact enemies with Russia and that they have legit security concerns. That there were and still could be diplomatic solutions. That this needless war is severely damaging European stability and transferring massive amounts of wealth to the military industrial complex. That the entire western mainstream media is engaging in disinformation on the history and whitewashing the Ukraine nazi problem. That we’re literally loosing our freedom of expression.

Two things can be true at once. Putin can be a heinous monster, and everything about the war can be a lie and wrong.

I’m honestly shocked how many liberals outright deny facts for political correctness. I see no differents to MAGAts or climate change deniers here. I guess there is also a vast amount of political operatives and volunteers active on Reddit and Lemmy to shut down any opposition to the war and the facts.