re: #85 Florida Panhandler

Can we stop pretending Putin is not a full-on fascist?

Putin is using minorities inside Russia as cannon fodder for his woeful war in Ukraine.
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The term “Russian Nationalist” fails to convey what Putin and the rest of his regime represent.

There has been way too little discussion of how the breakup of the USSR left a diaspora of over 20 million ethnic Russians stranded beyond the borders of Russia.

And whereas they were a privileged minority in the USSR with access to better jobs, housing, education and career advancement opportunities, they found themselves after the breakup being treated like´, well, minorities.

They are Putin’s Sudetendeutsch or Ulstermen.