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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do people think saying Putin wants to restore the Russian Empire = condoning the invasion of Ukraine?[/quote]

Because it was suggested in a way that minimizes Putin’s outrageous and aggressive agenda while portraying him as a traditional harmless Conservative. He is a ruthless dictator who brokers no dissent and  a war criminal who spreads a lot of disinformation to justify his many aggressions, annexations of other peoples’ land and undermining of Western democracies while promoting far right extremism around the free world. It benefits his own authoritarian rule to weaken Western democracies.

Democracy is messy but the alternative of clinical dictatorships is far far worse.

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The only way you can have this train of thought is if you believe that the Russian Empire was benign and a "harmless traditional conservative" regime. Is that what you're trying to say?  I'm the one who noted-- accurately-- that Putin is not trying to rebuild the USSR but rather a Russian Empire in which Russia is the undisputed hegemon-- and I don't believe this is harmless. Although I acknowledge that I made no moral statements, just factual ones. It just didn't occur to me that leftists would think that the Russian Empire was benevolent. [/quote]

See, your mistake was lack of moral outrage. Hence you must be a Putin troll! [/quote]

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