What misconception
gen·o·cide
/ˈjenəˌsīd/
noun
the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group
"a campaign of genocide"
"Opinion: Putin has long fantasized about a world without Ukrainians. Now we see what that means."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... -identity/Vladimir Putin has been making a case for genocide against Ukrainians for years. Have we been listening?
A decade ago he proposed that politics begins with friend or foe, following the Nazi legal thinker Carl Schmitt and the Russian fascist philosopher Ivan Ilyin, whom Putin regards as a teacher. Ukraine was a forced friend: Anyone who did not understand that Ukrainians were part of Russian civilization was an enemy. For Putin, the “unity in the souls” of Russians and Ukrainians was the will of God defended by an act of cleansing violence.
In a long essay in July, Putin argued that there was no Ukrainian nation. Complementing his earlier claims with some that he presented as historical, Putin wrote of the “unity” of Russians and Ukrainians. The West had confused Ukrainians to believe that they had their own separate identity, but that could be corrected.
This echoed Hitler’s view. The führer also thought the Ukrainians were natural colonial people, who, once liberated from the supposedly Jewish leadership of the Soviet Union, would happily serve new masters. Dmitry Medvedev closed the gap between these two positions, making clear that what disqualified Ukrainian government was its Jewish president. In the weeks before the invasion, Russia refused to negotiate with Ukraine, presenting it as a vassal.
Putin continued the argument on Feb. 21, announcing that Russian troops would cross into Ukraine because the Ukrainian state was artificial. Since Ukraine was “entirely created by Russia,” Russia had the right to correct its mistake.
To assert that there is no nation and no state is to claim the right to destroy them. “Denazification” and “demilitarization,” the two war aims that Putin announced on Feb. 24, the day his invasion began, meant nothing less than this.
“Denazification” means the elimination of people who do not understand that Ukraine is part of a larger Russia..........
So what is the misconception
Sure you can blame the US for its misdeeds {Vietnam, Iraq, etc.} - But Pukin {sic}, if nothing else, will prove that he and he alone
should not be underestimated as a true historical villain with no real Humanitarian interests in people of not only Ukraine and Russia,
but the rest of the World as well, as he threatens nuclear war and the resulting end of Human life on Earth
