Yes, this is especially ironic given that the Fine-People Hoax was the basis of Biden’s campaign.
We have repeatedly seen American media claim that an image of a single confederate flag at an event means that everyone there is a White Supremacist or Nazi-sympathizer.
By that standard, Putin’s rhetoric about de-Nazifying Ukraine is hardly exceptional.
Over 80% of the civilian casualties were on the pro-Russian side according to the UN.
There has been virtually zero coverage in the western media of the simmering war in Donbas. What are seeing now is a massive escalation of war that has been going on since 2014.
Here is video from a few weeks ago about a bombing of a school at school on the separatist side. The reported location of the crater was consistent with a shell coming from the Ukrainian side.
The fact that 80% of the casualties are on the separatist side is not an accident from what I can see.
The irony is that the US continues to support the use of far-right White Supremacist paramilitaries in Ukraine with a President who made the fine-people hoax the central theme of this campaign.
If Biden had bombed Charlotesville to ashes to get rid of those Nazis then maybe we could have some equivalency… but using that to give cover to invading a country over a 1000 dudes in Donbas, where there has been a contiuing conflict that Russia initiated years ago is just baby licking stupid.
What would Biden do if neo-Nazi paramilitaries were killing American civilians and shelling schools?
From what I can see, elements of the US government have been trying to start a war with Russia for some time. Suspending the Minsk agreement and offering NATO membership are the most recent provocations to a war that has been going on since 2014.
True, but if we assume Putin is mostly sane and isn’t suicidal we can somewhat safely assume he won’t activate his nuclear football barring NATO assets firing on Russian assets.
Nuclear weapons are great deterrents. For deterring conventional warfare. For other forms of warfare, such as economic or supporting insurgencies, they lose their luster quickly.
An economy that is heavily damaged can be repaired once the sanctions are lifted.
Launching a First Strike over economic warfare is the height of insanity. Because the Second Strike would destroy the entirety of European Russia. It would be radioactive ashes. There would be no coming back from that.