Putin is a bloodthirsty fascist dictator. Fascists use lies as a weapon, to switch the roles of victim and attacker.
German Nazi propaganda claimed Jews were attacking them, not the other way around. Putin uses the same lie to demonize his Ukrainian victims.
Putin is a threat to all free people. Ukraine is the wall.
This war is not just about Ukraine. Putin wants to destroy all western democracies, because democracies oppose dictatorships.
Putin says liberalism has ‘become obsolete’
Putin’s quest to build an anti-liberal empire
Putin’s Fascism: The admiration of religious traditionalism and hatred of cosmopolitan liberalism is part of the Kremlin’s fascist ideology
The Far Right Doesn't Want to Beat the Left; It Wants to Exterminate It: Every right-wing authoritarian movement has one thing in common: a brutal clampdown on any persons or groups who promote equality.
Putin’s Anti-Gay War on Ukraine: A pervasive ideology of “traditional values” has taken hold in Russia, portraying LGBT rights as existential threats to the nation.
Ukrainian LGBTQ Soldiers Fight Against “Darkness” Of Russian Invasion
If there’s any fascist here, it’s the Russian dictator. Putin’s attempt to label the Ukraine government as Nazis is beyond irony
Putin uses the same fascist propaganda lies that Hitler used:
‘Putin is a fascist’: Hundreds of protesters march for Ukraine in Tel Aviv
Russia’s War Has Nothing to Do With “Denazifying” Ukraine
Fact check: Do Putin's justifications for going to war against Ukraine add up? No.
Ukraine War: Why Putin's Propagandists Claim They're the 'New Jews.' Russia's top propagandists, many of whom have disseminated vicious antisemitism for decades, are now eagerly commandeering Jewish identity and the Holocaust as the next step in the grotesque "Nazi Ukraine" slur
Putin's fascists: The Russian state's long history of cultivating homegrown neo-Nazis
The Rise Of Neo-Nazism In Russia:
Jews burn the Russian flag in support of Ukraine, to counter Putin's fascist propaganda lie that Ukrainians are Nazis.
Putin is a bloodthirsty fascist dictator and war criminal who is slaughtering innocent civilians, and the whole world knows it. He's the Nazi:
Russia's war uproots Ukrainian Jews amid false Nazi claims
'I'm not running' Meet the warrior Jews fighting back against Putin
Ukraine’s Jews Celebrate Wartime Passover in Defiance of Russian Invasion
‘Almost the same as 1941’: Decades later, Ukrainian Jews relive horror as they bunker in synagogue
First Georgia, Then Ukraine: How Russian Propaganda Justifies Invasions
Ethics and International Affairs
Yes, Putin and Russia are fascist – a political scientist shows how they meet the textbook definition
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, Vladimir Putin had shown himself to be a racist, fascist dictator
Russia fought against Nazism but is now itself a fascist state
Ivan Ilyin, Putin’s Philosopher of Russian Fascism: Ivan Ilyin provided a metaphysical and moral justification for political totalitarianism, which he expressed in practical outlines for a fascist state. Today, his ideas have been revived and celebrated by Vladimir Putin.
Ivan Ilyin: A Fashionable Fascist
Yes, Putin and Russia Are Fascist
The Fascist in the Kremlin
Infamous Russian Troll Farm Appears to Be Source of Anti-Ukraine Propaganda
A Russian whistleblower who used to work in a Russian troll factory as part of Putin's disinformation warfare:
Former Russian trolls turned whistleblowers speak out about spreading anti-American lies on social media as part of Putin's disinformation warfare:
‘Vulkan files’ leak reveals Putin’s global and domestic cyberwarfare tactics: Russian program aims to control internet and spread disinformation
Rape as a weapon: huge scale of sexual violence inflicted in Ukraine emerges. Women and girls have recounted the abuse they have suffered at the hands of Russian soldiers
Russian soldiers kept women in a basement for 25 days; nine are now said to be pregnant
Russian woman is overheard giving her soldier partner permission to rape locals in Ukraine in intercepted phonecall – telling him ‘use protection and don’t tell me’
Russian state TV warns Putin ‘will use nukes’ if Nato enters Ukraine
Putin puts Russia’s nuclear forces on alert, cites sanctions
Putin Is Brandishing the Nuclear Option. How Serious Is the Threat?
West takes Putin’s nuclear weapons threat seriously
Nato steps up defence against chemical and nuclear attacks in response to Russian threats
Nato countries set to give Ukraine kits to protect against nuclear and chemical attacks
NATO to supply Ukraine nuclear, chemical protection equipment.
Russia's Lavrov: Do not underestimate threat of nuclear war
Putin Really May Break the Nuclear Taboo in Ukraine
Russian state TV claims Putin is more likely to launch nuclear war than accept defeat in Ukraine
Russian TV host says nuclear war is the most probable outcome of the Ukraine war:
A top Russian propagandist says war with NATO is starting and Moscow will show ‘no mercy.’ Experts say the threat is ‘nonsensical’
Russian State TV Comforts Viewers on Nuclear War: 'We All Die Someday'
Cackling Russian state TV hosts suggest firing Satan nuke at New York – and laugh at killing three million people
Russian journalist urges Putin to wipe out 'boorish' UK with Satan 2 nuke - after Vladimir claimed to have stopped 'Ukrainian plot to assassinate him'
Putin is sick and knows that he will die soon. He wants to go out in a blaze of glory.
Putin wants to start a nuclear war. His entire military strategy is built on using nuclear weapons.
If you support Putin, you support the end of the world.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a message for the Russian people: “My father was a Nazi. Don't be like him. Putin is a fascist dictator like Hitler. Don't believe his lies. Don't follow his illegal orders. Don't participate in the illegal war against the people of Ukraine.”
After Putin threatened to launch nuclear weapons, this highly reputable retired Belarusian general told the soldiers of Belarus and Russia to disobey criminal orders, be heroes, and end this madness:
International court issues war crimes warrant for Putin
ICC judges issue arrest warrant for Putin over war crimes in Ukraine
The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Putin
…still looking up the sky waiting for “putin nukes”? …he doesn’t have functional ones, he’s weapons are: PROPAGANDA, CORRUPTION and TERRORISM
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36015684
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