yeah. i guess it gives 'em a good line to run with. and it's not entirely unwarranted, even if it is exaggerated. but you just stormed parliament with bats and shovels and installed a fascist as deputy prime minister, yulia. maybe it's time to have an out-of-body experience and realize how that appears to the rest of the world, and put it into some context.

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/politics/tymoshenkoukraine-and-the-world-must-act-immediately-to-stop-russian-aggression-338081.html

i actually don't expect that sort of thing to fly. she's not a serious candidate on either side of the country. whatever the merits of her concern, i'd expect pretty much everybody on both sides to see through it.

in the end, we can't have patience for fascists. if the russians come down hard on these people, that's a war they're on the right side of.

i mean, if we want to talk history, russia has a pretty brutal history with fighting fascism. 20 million is a lot of dead people. that's something else we don't really realize in the west. well, i think we do know this, but it's not our mythology. wwII was primarily a conflict between germany and russia. russia was near obliterated in the process.

as much as ripping out the mongols was a part of the russian ethnogenesis, defeating the fascists formed a core of soviet identity. it's too early to have lost that.

so, the flip side is that that's a heavily emotional concern on the russian side.

it doesn't really matter where it pops up, to me. fascism is to be fought against everywhere, using all means possible.

that's not to put too much trust in the russians...

...but i can't do anything but support anything that takes these people out of power. it doesn't matter how they got there. uprising. coup. election. fascists cannot be passively allowed to govern.

under any circumstance.

'cause you know what they say about fascists: they're only good when they're dead.