Russia has no right to carry out a genocide—any more than Ukraine had the right to carry one out on people of the Donbas for almost a decade—but then again Russia isn’t carrying out one, despite what Five Eyes governments & corporate media insist.

I will concede that there are a few fascist elements in Russia, but they aren’t in power, and one of their most well-known figures (to Westerners at least) recently died.

2007: Video: Alexei Navalny Compares Muslims to Cockroaches
BBC, 2021: Amnesty [International] strips Alexei Navalny of 'prisoner of conscience' status
Workers World, 2024: Who was Alexei Navalny? A violent white supremacist and fascist on U.S. payroll

.
Neither Navanly nor the Azov Battalion are aberrations: the US has been maintaining fascist cells in Europe our whole lives, as a backstop against Europe ever gaining a real independence from the US, or worse, becoming socialist.

The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It

Edit to add:

In particular, the US doesn’t want Europe and Russia to develop closer ties, because it doesn’t want the “Eurasian landmass” to ever cohere, because it would become too self-sufficient and powerful for the US to control. Zbigniew Brzezinski laid this theory out when the Soviet Union fell. That’s why the US tried to convince Europe not to build Nord Stream 2 and then later not to turn it on, why Biden said he would “bring an end to it” if Russia invaded, and why they ultimately did bring an end to it.

The US also very much wants regime change or balkanization in Russia so it can resume its neocolonial plundering of it, which started under Yeltson and ended under Putin.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Holy cow,

In the 1990s he formulated the strategic case for buttressing the independent statehood of Ukraine, partially as a means to prevent a resurgence of the Russian Empire,[citation needed] and to drive Russia toward integration with the West, promoting instead "geopolitical pluralism" in the space of the former Soviet Union. He developed "a plan for Europe" urging the expansion of NATO, making the case for the expansion of NATO to the Baltic countries.

Any ideas where I can find out more about Brzenzinski’s plans after the fall of the Soviet Union?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The CIA gives his book away for free: https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/36/36669B7894E857AC4F3445EA646BFFE1_Zbigniew_Brzezinski_-_The_Grand_ChessBoard.doc.pdf

[–] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why are you citing Navalny (granted, fascist) and not Dugin, Rogozin and Prokhanov who are actually close to the current government?

And let's not forget about Putin's obsession with Ilyin, who, and I don't want to put words incorrectly here, is a literal fascist, like a canonical one.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I don’t know why people keep bring up Dugin:

His right-hand man is Aleksandr Dugin

Bullshit. Dugin is a Western chauvinist fascist who is ideologically aligned with the Ukrainian coup government and the Ukrainian Nazis who terrorized the Donbas for almost a decade before Russia intervened two years ago. In what universe is he Putin’s “right-hand man”?

The US would absolutely love to have a regime change that put Dugin in power, because he would invite the American shock therapists back in to finish the plundering that they started in the ’90s under Yeltsin, and that Putin put an end to.

[–] stringere@leminal.space 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

terrorized the Donbas for almost a decade before Russia intervened two years ago

You mean the Donbas where Ukraine was fighting Russia after they annexed Crimea?

How can you terroriza your own country that was invaded?

Are you completely ignoring the fact Russia annexed Crimea just so you can carry water for Putin? What is your agenda?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

My agenda is (1) to save the lives & livelihoods of working class people and (2) anti-imperialism. My agenda is not to carry water for Ukraine’s neoliberal government, which has allowed Global North capitalists to neocolonize it to the detriment of its people.

You mean the Donbas where Ukraine was fighting Russia after they annexed Crimea?

The Donbas is not Crimea; they don’t even touch.

In 2014 the US facilitated a coup, installing a far-right comprador government, because the democratically elected government was insufficiently subservient to US interests. In response, Russia annexed Crimea, a region whose history and people were more aligned with Russia. There wasn’t much fighting involved because the people of Crimea largely welcomed this.

But getting back to the Donbas: how is bombing apartment complexes in one’s own country for nearly a decade “fighting Russia”? That was a neonazi ethnic cleansing project with the support of their own government and the CIA.

[–] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 7 months ago

He's not Putin's right hand man, I have never claimed it

[–] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The US would absolutely love to have a regime change that put Dugin in power

https://t.me/Agdchan/. Just read him with a translator. There are people like Pinochet and there are completely different people like Dugin