Stalin slaughtered millions of his own. I don't see how that makes the Nazis somehow less evil.

@adriaan23
Simple:
If Russia had nuclear weapons in 1939, and Germany did not.
Would Hitler have invaded Russia?

Of couse not.

So how is the handful of Nazis in Ukraine a threat to Russia today?

No they are not a threat.

So your original post is nonsense.
The USA did not place the Nazis in Ukraine and they are not an “USA tool”.

And the Russia did not invade Ukraine because Nazis were a threat Russia. That is just BS Putin used to try and justify his war to his own people.

Putin invaded Ukraine because the Ukrainians chose western economic life over eastern economic life.
That meant Russia will continue to slide into economic unimportance.

And that is why Putin attacked.

@Hanno, @adriaan23

The Azov battalion only came into existence and the Nazis prominent AFTER the Russia invasion of Crimea.

True. And the Ukrainian government drafted the organization to help defend Ukraine, just as the PH government drafted the PH Communist Hukbalahap militia to help fight off the Japanese during WW2. Did the act of drafting the PH Red militia make the PH government Communist? Of course not.

You have to be Socialist employing big business to execute your dictates on the population to be Fascist or "Nazi." That makes China and Russia Fascist states, strictly speaking. And the West is in a hurry to follow suit.

@Hanno It's not the hand full of Nazis in Ukraine. Just look around the world and see all their backers.

@adriaan23
Yes, and those backers are not Nazis. They are socialists and communists.
And no, they are not backing the Nazis…. The hand full Nazis in Ukraine are just tools to them. They are backing their own agendas.

@Hanno Have you looked at Ukraine's leader?

@adriaan23
Yes, he is a Jew.

It depends if you find the Nazi ideals to your liking? Then yes.

@adriaan23 The Nazi Party was the name of the organization of the German Fascists. Their ideology was Fascism. People like to throw these epithets around without even having a clue of what they mean. Only a minority would be able to describe what Fascism is or who it's founding philosopher was without Googling it first.

@eschatologyguy Fascism is just that "an ideology". The German Nazis were far more than that. Eugenics, Racial Purity. Removal of Human Sub Species through the FINAL SOLUTION! World Domination through WAR! Fascism+

@adriaan23 Yes. But did it occur to you that to be a Nazi you'd have to be German, otherwise you would not be part of their "master race?" We've been going around this Nazi discussion because you believe in megalomaniac Putin's lies. He needed an excuse to invade and subjugate a free people, and that's the excuse he came up with. If it was all just about the Azovs, he would just have taken the Azovs out and let the rest of the people be. Will Finland be Nazi next?

@adriaan23 At best the Azovs are fake Nazi's composed mostly of impressionable young people who don't know half of what they think they know, who like to march around with swastikas thinking it's cool. Don't outsource your sense-making to Putin. He may subjugate Ukraine, but it's not going to be because he has the right to. He's just a regional hegemonic bully, like Xi.

very true.