Putin went supreme oday mode for this one, laid out 100s of yrs of context that his intended audience (tucker carlson viewers) wont give a single f*ck about
My favourite part is when he stunted on tucker about how he was in the KGB but tucker never made it into the CIA
Anyone who takes a break from drinking the koolaid of us war proaganda easily finds that the reason ukraine was invaded was because of NATO expansion, the fact that hes clearly targetting republicans to understand that is SMART, hes handing them a gift wrapped election wedge issue.
Also, the nazis in ukraine (azov battalion) is legit and a problem. Theyre 2-5% of the army (according to ukraine), but nazis are very ideologically driven, and zelensky / nato know they will get crushed without Azov. Putin is right to bring light to the fact that the Banderists (ukrainian naziz) never went through a "oh these guys are bad people" phase like the germans did. The only reason the nazis in ukraine is downplayed in our media environments is because theyre allied with the us. Thats what leads to situations like the Canadian Parliament saluting ukranian nazi veterans. Its underpinned by the two facts
-the world has rejected nazism
-a significant portion of ukraine supports nazi collaborators (the banderists)
Coming to a head. So they collaborated with nazis, never regretted it, the ukrainian diaspora in canada has memorial sites for banderists today (
https://banderalobby.substack.com/p/the-canadian-bandera-network) , and the head of state zelensky is aware of their contribution to his armed forces. Its fair to say that "de-nazificiation" is in order. And "de-nazification" is something the US is not good at, they didnt give a f*ck about the nazis until pearl harbour and after the war took in a bunch of nazis.
Highlighting this problem will make it easier for politicians and regular people to turn on ukraine, its gonna be an election issue for many govts imo