What a clown show.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the U.S. has framed it as “the great battle for freedom: a battle between democracy and autocracy.” But Russia has never listed Ukraine’s democracy as a reason for its war.
It has never been concerned with Ukraine’s choice of system of government; it has been concerned with that government’s choice to pursue NATO membership and to become a heavily weaponized anti-Russian bridgehead on its border. Moscow’s concerns have not been political concerns, but security concerns.
As Paul Robinson says in his new book, Russia’s World Order: How Civilizationism Explains the Conflict with the West, “Russia has shown itself to be consistently indifferent to other states’ political systems, being far more concerned with whether those states are friendly than with what sort of regime they have…. Russian leaders have never expressed a dislike of democracy per se, merely a dislike of the foreign policy pursued by the democratic states of the West.”
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it may have been Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, more than Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, who has waged a battle against Ukraine’s democracy.
If you support this murdering nonsense, you are a fool.
