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Lightning Strikes posted...

Its not really that exactly, in his speech a few days ago Putin criticised Lenin for allowing Ukraine to form as a Soviet Republic at all, and he stated that he views the destruction of Ukraine as the only way to complete decommunisation. He doesnt want to go back to the Soviet days, he wants to go back to the Russian Empire.

This is the thing though, the people saying that it was a fake revolution or acting like Russias still communist are wrong. It is a very different Russia. Just not, as it happens, a better Russia. The tankies stanning for Putin are absolutely ludicrous, its a hard right very anti-communist dictatorship that is an ultra-capitalist corporate dystopia invading a democracy. If you want to talk about fascists, look no further than elements of the Russian government. No self-respecting left-winger or communist should be siding with a state like that. It is, fortunately, a small minority.

So yeah this is awful, everybody supporting it is awful, and hopefully all nations western or otherwise will join in a strong response.

The reality is that no other countries will do anything, just like they didn't do anything when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and took Crimea. That was basically a practice run for this full scale invasion. The other world leaders will issue strongly worded statements, shake their fists, and impose economic sanctions, but Russia controls so much of the energy supply to the rest of Europe that the sanctions will backfire. They are going to end up pushing inflation and energy costs even higher in the west.

So, why is Putin invading Ukraine? Basically, it's because noone is going to stop him and he is simply proving that he can.