In defence of Russia

Why? Kedikat is a worthless hateful Russian troll who is here only to spread pro-Russian and anti-Western propaganda, to celebrate the greatness of Putin, and to blame NATO, Ukraine, and especially the US for apparently forcing Putin to invade Ukraine.

The fucker should be banned for hate speech.

To fully appreciate this, one needs to understand Rashism (also called Russism), a hateful and extremist fascist ideology closely associated with Vladimir Putin, and championed here by Kedikat. The symbol of Rashism is a stylized “Z”, reminiscent of a swastika, and is the reason that “Z” is painted on all the Russian war machines attacking Ukraine and killing its citizens.

 

Rashism, a portmanteau of “Russia” and “fascism”, also known as Ruscism, Russism, or Russian fascism is a term used by a number of scholars, politicians and publicists to describe the political ideology and social practices of the Russian authorities during the rule of Vladimir Putin. It is also used to refer to the ideology of Russian military expansionism, and has been used as a label to describe an undemocratic system and nationality cult mixed with ultranationalism and a cult of personality. That transformation was described as based on the ideas of the “special civilizational mission” of the Russians, such as Moscow as the third Rome and expansionism, which manifests itself in anti-Westernism and supports regaining Imperial lands by conquest.

… According to [President of Ichkeria Dzhokhar Dudayev], Ruscism is “a variety of hatred ideology which is based on Great Russian chauvinism, spiritlessness and immorality. It differs from other forms of fascism, racism, and nationalism by a more extreme cruelty, both to man and to nature. It is based on the destruction of everything and everyone, the tactics of scorched earth. Ruscism is a schizophrenic variety of the world domination complex. This is a distinct version of slave psychology, it grows like a parasite on the fabricated history, occupied territories and oppressed peoples.”

Putin is a ruthless thug who, along with a handful of oligarchs who support and protect him, has stolen hundreds of billions of dollars from the Russian people and imagines himself a czar-like potentate who will further enrich himself and extend his power by expanding the Russian empire to any and all adjacent neighboring countries.

With that in mind, it’s worthwhile to examine some of Kedikat’s comments in the “Russia invades Ukraine” thread, before he was finally told by a moderator to knock it off. He has been a bit more circumspect in this thread, where he knows he will be called out on it, but observe his earlier posts back in that other thread. My own observations are in italics prior to each one.

Kedikat begins by parroting the Kremlin line “the Russians are winning”

Kedikat informs us that the Russians have been very, very careful not to cause civilian casualties. (They have definitely not bombed apartment buildings, hospitals, and even children’s shelters. Definitely not!)

Anything Russia does is justified:

Russia has no expansionist ambitions at all! Putin is a fine fellow who has no imperialist ambitions at all to return to the old days of Soviet glory! The war is all the fault of the US! (Fact: Not only is Putin’s Rashism blatantly imperialistic and genocidal, but he fancies himself a latter-day czar; he has czarist imagery all over the $15 billion ultra-luxurious palace he built for himself with money stolen from the Russian people.) (Bolding mine below.)

In addition to Kedikat’s poor command of English, the occasional lapses into Russian grammar (like dropping the indefinite article here) are interesting.

In case anyone missed his first statement that the Ukraine invasion is all the fault of the US, he repeats it a second time:

In case anyone missed how much Kedikat loves Putin, he reasserts it here:

In short, Kedikat is a Putin-loving anti-Western, anti-US, Ukraine-hating Russian troll and propagandist for Russian fascism and Russian hegemony.