RuZZia is an attempt by libs to kickstart their own equivalent to Maoist Standard English/one-up the term AmeriKKKa and it just absolutely fucking blows, man

They literally don't know that and think Z is a fascist symbol because liberalism I guess

I don't know how the masses brains work anymore and where they're making this shit up from

The huge majority of Russians do support the war and that's a great thing because they're repelling the NATO encroachment

Any criticisms about Russia and Russians, just ask, would these have been said the same about Iraq or Afghanistan? Both of these states are also capitalist and have even worse social equality than Russia yet people never get so hand wringy about supporting their anti-imperialism unlike Russia

Are the criticisms about Russia actually valid from a materialist Leninist standpoint or is it just a Christian influenced upbringing that makes people inherently view the weak as the underdog (Iraq, Afghanistan) as more morally pure and the big, strong, and mighty (Russia) as evil

It's good that Russia is actually powerful enough to win against NATO and that fact should be celebrated, not shamed

My own take is that there are ruzzians (pro-SMO, happy for russia to invade and occupy a sovereign country, attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure, and happy to excuse war-crimes when convenient for them) and normal russians, a mostly apolitical & apathetic bunch of people who try to keep their head down, some of which vote with their feet, and a few stand-up folks who will call a spade a spade publicly. No real surprises & pretty typical population make-up, in other words.

Personally, I don't think russia deserves to wear a "great power" party hat. It's the wrong horse to bet on for a chance of a better world.

That would imply the SS is bad, which is politically inconvenient right now. Keep in mind - There are a good number of people in important places in Ukraine who think the SS Galacian Division were the good guys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician)

Some time in the last year we spent most of a day hunting down the origins of various heraldry in the region around Kiev because we were trying to figure out if a rampant lion figure was tied to the 14th Waffen SS Grenadiers 1st Galacian. I think in the end we concluded that it was not, as it was just the rampant lions without the three crowns of the 1st Galacian logo, and that lion had a much longer history in the region than the Nazis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician)#The_Canadian_Deschênes_Commission

Fucking KKKlanada. "We're going to let the members of the war criminal organization in because we checked and these smol beans didn't actually do any war crimes" or some bullshit. Canada and the US both have important Ukrainian Nazi organizations that were sheltered and protected throughout the Cold War with exactly the outcome we're seeing in Ukraine in mind. Which is fucking bizarre because they were never popular during the actual war.