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I'm sure the starving Yemenis or the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis which died appreciate being killed by a democratic state which has so much respect for human dignity. Or the killed Yugoslav citizens, of which many being exposed to radioactive ammunition to this day.
Or even better, being raped, tortured and killed by Ukrainian militias is surely much more pleasant, because "they fight for the right thing".
If you are a Russian civilian in the East, you have just a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea. And as I told you, Ukraine is now a corrupted oligarchic state, which a lot of active US agents, which persecutes and suppresses all Russian activists. Ukraine ended the democratic discourse under the Selenski regime, as they did end the diplomatic options with Russia and the separatists.
Apparently you can't think of Russia as such, without references! That seems like reasoning that my kids often use, 'yes, but he does it too' and 'he started'. I then respond with if seven jump into a ditch, so do you jump? Perhaps a warped comparison but it does make it clear that all the misery of the world Putin's does NOT excuse Russia that is the gist.
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My problem is that I see both the Putin and the Selenski regime with Biden in the back as what they are. You create an ideologically driven narrative which doesn't reflect reality and completely ignorse one sides (Russian state, Russian people, including pro-Russian Ukrainians) perspective.
Putin's regime isn't great, no doubt about it, the question is how much better the Selenski regime is, and the interference of the USA there and elsewhere. And even more, what's a solution to the conflict, to the problem, which costs less lifes and goods. Would have been a fair diplomatic solution, like Russia tried to get it for years, but the Ukrainian regime and the USA just refused.
Zelenski makes the choice to take steps to de democratic world. Is Ukraine there. No I guess not, nevertheless the aim is clear!
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Russia justifies genocide: state publication explains why Ukraine and Ukrainians must be destroyed
Russian state-owned propaganda outlet RIA published the new programmatic article with the title "What Russia must do with Ukraine". The article reveals a detailed plan for a genocide, starting from full elimination of Ukrainian state.
1) it calls almost every Ukrainian a Nazi who deserves death. "Nazis who took weapons, must be killed in numbers as much as possible... Not just the elites, the most of the people are guilty, they are passive Nazis, Nazi enablers. They supported these elites and must be punished".
2) It foresees tyrannic approach to culture. "Further denacification of the mass of the population is to be reached through ideological repression (oppression) of Nazi ideas and through harsh censorship: not only in politics, but in culture and education areas".
3) it foresees economic and political destruction of Ukraine: "Ukraine must pay for its guilt towards Russia. It must be treated as an enemy, and therefore may develop only in dependency to Russia. No "Marshall plan" may happen. No "neutrality" both ideological or practical".
4) A tyrannical future emerges: "Personnel providing denazification in new denazified republics (plural! - NB) cannot act on another way but only with direct military-police and management support from Russia. Denazification must be a Deukrainisation".
5) Ukraine is the enemy: "The history has proven: Ukraine may not exist as a national state. Any attempt to create it leads to Nazism. Ukrainism is an artificial anti-Russian construct... De-banderisation is not enough... Denazification of Ukraine must be De-Europeazation of it".
6) Deliberate targeting of civilians: "The Bandera-elites must be liquidated, they cannot be re-educated. The social "swamp" who supported them must experience terror of war and learn the lesson, and pay for its guilt".
That is a clear example of what Claude Lefort describes (wiki):
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The organicist vision of society
The totalitarian system, unified and organized, presents itself like a body, the "social body": "dictatorship, bureaucracy and apparatus need a new system of bodies".[17] Lefort returns to the theories of Ernst Kantorowicz on the "two bodies of the king", in which the person of the totalitarian leader, besides his physical and mortal body, is a political body representing the one-people. In order to ensure its proper functioning and to maintain its unity, the totalitarian system requires an Other, "the evil other",[18] a representation of the exterior, the enemy, against which the party combats, "the representative of the forces of the old society (kulaks, bourgeois), [...] the emissary of the stranger, of the imperialistic world".[19]
The division between the interior and the exterior, between the One-people and the Other, is the only division that totalitarianism tolerates, since it is founded upon this division. Lefort insists on the fact that "the constitution of the One-people necessitates the incessant production of enemies"[19] and also speaks of their "invention". For example, Stalin prepared to attack the Jews of USSR when he died, i.e., designing a new enemy, and in the same way, Mussolini had declared that bourgeois would be eliminated in Italy after World War II.
The relation between the one-people and the Other is a prophylactic command: the enemy is a "parasite to eliminate", a "waste". This exceeds the simple rhetorical effect that was commonly used in the contemporary political discourse, yet in an underlying way it is part of the metaphorical vision of the totalitarian society as a body. This vision explained how the existence both of enemies of the state and their presence in the bosom of the population, were seen as an illness. The violence roused against them was, in this organicist metaphor, a fever, a symptom of the fight of the social body against the illness, in the sense that "the campaign against the enemy is feverish: the fever is good, it's the sign, in the society, of the evil to counteract".[20]
The situation of the totalitarian leader within this system is paradoxical and uncertain, for he is at the same time a part of the system – its head, who commands the rest – and the representation of the system – everything. He is therefore the incarnation of the "one-power", i.e., the power executed in all parts of the "one-people".
