Vice did an interview with Nancy Pelosi, where she calls support for Ukraine “defence of democracy.” Ukraine was a democracy, where the Russian cultural element was systematically discriminated, where opposition parties were banned, where journalists critical of the way Ukraine was headed were murdered, with the perpetrators never brought to justice. Part of the reason for Crimean and Donbas separatism was not just support of Russia but the fear of the people that they would not have their rights defended in nationalist Ukraine. I do not even mention the radical chauvinistic nationalism that was promoted in Ukraine.
This is why Ukraine needs to be crushed, so that Russia can stick it to Murica, to other Western supporters of Ukraine, to Ukrainian nazis, to Ukrainian oligarchs. And I hope Russia wins, and wins big…
