I Am Sure The People Of Russia Won't Complain If Someone Treats Them Like Their Soldiers Treat

[DanieRains]

The people from Bucha....

What's good for the goose.....

[sarisataka]

1. This could be interesting

[Arazi]

2. Would never happen

I don’t think Ukrainians are sociopaths.

And they don’t have a delusional leader urging genocide

[TheAverageDUer]

3. Azov Battalion are literal neo-nazis so I'm sure they would be willing.

[Arazi]

6. From what I've read, there's a minimum number of neo-Nazis left in that unit

Current estimates are 1% or so.

When they were allowed to become a part of the Ukrainian Army, a substantial number were purged.

Like the US military, there’s definitely a percentage of white supremacists infesting the ranks but it would be wrong to say they’re some kind of majority.

[regnaD kciN]

11. It's a difficult question...

The Azov Movement is full-on white supremacist neo-Nazi. A few years ago, the paramilitary wing split from the political movement and were incorporated into the National Guard. How much they have been purged of Nazis is hard to tell, although I think that the most hard-core anti-Semites would have a hard time joining the Guard, and thus following the orders of a Jewish president. I certainly don't trust them as far as I can throw them, but they are a quite small piece of the armed forces as a whole (just as the Azov Movement's political wing only got about 2.51% of the vote in the 2019 election), and are definitely being used by Russian propaganda to frame all of Ukraine as Nazi.

[johnp3907]

7. Are you a member?

[TheAverageDUer]

8. Got my letterman jacket yesterday!

[AZLD4Candidate]

9. Since you said they are neo-nazi and you got your letterman jacket

Simple inverse logic learning in algebra (if this than that), that means if they are neo-nazi and you have the letterman jacket, you are admitting your are a neo-nazi.

Is this a correct assumption?

[Beastly Boy]

10. Neo-nazis taking cues from Putin's army?

I don't think "denazification" means what Uncle Vlad thinks it means.

[Crunchy Frog]

4. I can imagine some actions being carried out in Russia

by people who have lost everything, and are out for revenge.

Won't have any connection to the Ukrainian government or military. Just desperate people with nothing left to lose and unlimited access to mines and munitions.

People in Russia may be in for a world of well deserved blowback.

[enid602]

5. good bye

I think the probable and total dissolution of the 1000 year old Russian Empire will be payment enough. Can’t wait until all the other territories of the Russian Federation decide that now is the time ‘to pull a Ukraine.’ And while the Russian Armed Forces are facing these threats, China will annex the resource rich Eastern Russia and Siberia. Say goodbye to Russia.

[FakeNoose]

12. If they are so inclined, the perfect time is NOW!

Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and probably most of the former Iron Curtain countries. Time to get their sucker punches in, while they are on their knees.

China has nothing to gain by helping out Russia, they aren't even allies any more.

[Igel]

14. No clue what that means.

Don't know that I really want to know.

The problem is that the "1000-year" (let's think "Reich" here, why don't we?) was strange. Siberia was late. Kazan' was fairly late.

L'vov was much, much later.

And then it goes historical. When Moscow was Baltic Kiev was flourishing. Yes, Balts had settled that part of eastern Europe. Slavs purged/assimilated Baltic tribes.

Every time I hear Putin say, "Kiev is our heart" I think, "Kiev is the heart, and Moscow is the little toe. Kiev should claim *you*, vassal."

At this point, if not too many people died, I'd find it amusing if Kiev re-claimed Moscow as one of its provinces. It should make Putin smile, because, after all, the heart and core of Russian existence was *KIEVAN* Rus'.

What does "too many people" mean? It's la-la-land talk. I think too many have died, but part of me (the part I don't like) wants as many Muscovites to die as Ukrainians, and St. Basil's to be rubble--as for the abomination across the Moskva from the Kreml'? Make it a swimming pool ... again.

[regnaD kciN]

13. ...and hello to our new number-one enemy, China!

If they grab that area, you can count on them becoming the new bogeyman.

[AZLD4Candidate]

15. And China will be better boogeyman because they aren't white, aren't Christian

and people think they are mysterious and mystical.