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Originally Posted by prana
What does Ukraine containing Nazi groups within its borders have to do with Putin anyway? Is Putin there to rid the Ukraine of it's Nazi problem or something? Nah. Just a bunch of bs.
Well, it has to do with everyone, especially when they've trained American white supremacists groups that have been linked to hate crimes. Another chickens coming home to roost scenario, though only minor so far. I guess Russia's interest is that their ideology is primarily anti-Russian meanwhile around half the country is ethnically Russian.
Also election results don't tell the full story as these fascist groups may lack popular support but since they were the key shock troops in the Maiden coup, there leaders were given key ministries in the post-coup governement and there militias, which have since been integrated into the Ukraine army and are national guard provide the bulk of the troops waging war against the ethnically Russian provinces in the East.
Calling attention to this situation and condemning these groups and the Ukraine government's association with them as Greenwald frequently does is no form an implicit justification of Russian actions, that's an entirely different dissociation. But on this point he's 100% right.