@don this is capitalist media, yes

@don 2014 was a Western-backed coup and the new Ukrainian regime then launched a war against the Donbas when they broke away because they didn't support the coup government.

@rbe_expert yep, and russia saved Donbas from regime by deploying concentration camps there. the only way to counter Western-backed coup is to genocide locals, if you not agree, you are russophobe

@don What does that have to do with the Ukrainian war against the Donbas from 2014 to 2021?

@don Why won't you support people's right to self-determination? Instead you support a central government that tried to subjugate people for not acquiescing to a coup government.

@rbe_expert @don Do you hear yourself? Why do you want then Ukraine as part of the ruZZian empire? You are clearly sick :)

@extrn @don I don't. I want NO empires.

@rbe_expert @don then why don't you support Ukrainian people, but instead you seem to support a fascist state engaged in war crines and genocide? Because ... capitalism... yeah, right. Useful idiot indeed.

@extrn@qoto.org What determines what state is "fascist" and what state isn't? If Russia wasn't "fascist", would that change your opinion of things? @rbe_expert@mastodon.social @don@liberdon.com

@adiz @don @rbe_expert there's a definition (several in fact) of fascism. You can look for traits that are present in all fascist states. For example:
- ultranazionalism
- cult to the "glorious past"
- identifyjng varius groups as "enemies of the people".
- taking the voice of "the people": saying what "the people" like or don't like, what they want or don't want, imposing your view on how the society should be organized - because you supposedly speak with "the people's voice"...

There are a bunch of other signs as well. Look it up somewhere. ruZZia is clearly a fascist state right now.