Chad dog
Political compass
Authoritarian left
fuck Putin, he's a corrupt billionaire forcing the working class to fight and die in pointless wars of conquest, all for his own personal glory and political gain
Auth right
fuck Putin, he's the most dangerous enemy of the United States and an existential threat to the American way of life, he intentionally cultivated political extremism in the U.S. to cause instability here while he attacks our allies overseas

Lib left
fuck Putin, he's a racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, authoritarian tyrant who's committing genocide in the name of his ultra-traditionalist ethno-nationalist ideology
Libertarian right
fuck Putin, he's a cronyist autocrat who's rigged the market in favor of his political allies, suppressed personal freedom and civil liberties, and caused irreparable damage to international trade and global prosperity

Weak dog
Political compass
Authoritarian left
noooo Putin is actually good, he's carrying on the great legacy of the Soviet Union! he said he idolized Stalin (who did nothing wrong!) and mourned the loss of the USSR, that proves he's really a communist at heart! besides, all that stuff about the Ukrainian Genocide of 1932 is just Western revisionist propaganda, I read it in a book by Alexander Dugin so it must be true!

Authoritarian right
noooo Putin is actually good, he's fighting back against the LGBTQ feminist multicultural agenda, he's our last defense against the woke globalists! besides Ukraine is run by (((Cultural Marxists))), | heard it on Tucker Carlson so it must be true!

Libertarian left

noooo Putin is actually good, he's fighting back against the evil Amerikkkan Empire, he's our last defense against Western imperialism! besides Ukraine is run by Nazis, I heard it on RT so it must be true!

Lib right
noooo Putin is actually good because (false equivalency)
(whataboutism) (non-sequitur)
(conspiracy theory) (ad hominem)! besides, the
Mainstream Media says he's bad so the opposite must be true!
Centre
noooo Putin is actually good, it's a Nuanced Situation!
Ukraine and NATO aren't 100% innocent here so a genocidal invasion is totally justified! besides, if we don't give into Russia's every demand forever, it could lead to a nuclear war!
Putin himself said it, so it must be true!

Center fuck Putin, he started the largest and most deadly armed conflict since the end of WWII, he's an enemy of the international liberal order and the single greatest threat to world peace since Hitler

@louiscouture It takes a special sort of stupid to think putin is the good guy... i cant even with the stupidity these days

it's mostly about (as usual) oil and gas. mainly off the coast of crimea, but also shale gas inland throughout donbas. plus grain, minerals, etc.
also strategically russia needs secure access to the blacksea ports for year round trade in addition to the caspian. without it they'd be cut off. usa wants into the european market for oil & gas (evident from decades of prospecting in ukraine, including bidens + burisma et al), as does canada (while railroading indigenous nations to build the necessary pipelines). so ... down with the nordstream 2 (which bypasses ukraine into germany). some of the oil/gas is recently discovered, but the current international machinations in the region go back at least to ww2. a lot murkier than good guys vs bad guys.

@louiscouture , Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq... all more deadly.

You might mean "in Europe since WW II."

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