Know your western Russian useful idiot genocide apologist: https://twitter.com/theoverview_/status/1571452987792310272
Mr. Wight is the Leninist fossil variety who says the Baltic states joining NATO is aggressive expansion, when they saw 500000 of their 5m people deported in 1940 and 1949-53. If NATO expansion justifies invading Ukraine, then why not invade Finland and the Baltics, as Russia did in 1939-40?
The idea that the Russian elephant should fear the Baltic mouse is a laughable inversion of reality.
Here's the antidote to the Maidan coup NATO aggressive expansion myth: https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/know-your-russian-useful-idiot-genocide-apologists-a-and-b-800013dd4aed
Tim Snyder makes an evidence-based case for Russia's war against Ukraine fulfilling ALL, not just some, of Raphael Lemkin's conditions of genocide, a reality Mr. Wight chooses to unsee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_2y2LgTvoI&t=10s
The legal definition of genocide is about intention, which Russia's media and leaders have advertised thousands of times. Here's a small sample: https://www.justsecurity.org/81789/russias-eliminationist-rhetoric-against-ukraine-a-collection/
This delirium tremens of Russo-supremacist ethnonationalism, the culmination of three centuries of Russia's Tsarist/Bolshevik/Putinist Ukraine erasure project, leaves no doubt where the real fascists live: Moscow not Kyiv, where they got only 2.15% of the vote. If voting for fascists justifies invasion, 45% LePeniste France, Meloni's Italy, Germany (AfD), Sweden, Kacyzinski's Poland and Spain's Vox all jump in front of Ukraine in the invasion candidate queue.
Remove the mass graves and torture rooms of Bucha/Irpin/Izyum/ Mariupol and you still have the mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children, genocidal Russification at scale by any reasonable interpretation of the 1948 UN Convention against genocide:
Mr. Wight's citation of the Valdai discussion group Putin apologist front man Richard Sakwa seals the deal on genocide apologia.
If war is politics fought with other means, Russia has already lost:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94bqk8cB9iQ&t=2s
Jen Stoltenberg will name Putin as NATO recruiter of the year after the Finns and Swedes officially join.
