"Whataboutistan" fits perfectly those whose only reply to Russian war crimes is the diversionary "look what America did in ___________.

Wight's use of Marxist-Leninist jargon makes him an intellectual fossil. I had a Trotskyist prof at UCLA who did the same and know the species very well.

Useful idiot is a term coined by the KGB defector Yuriy Bezmenov with a specific historical context.

The EU's shared sovereignty rule of law consensus model of governance mixes with the Russian imperial kleptocracy like oil with water. Ask any Chechen, Dagestani, Yakut, Buryat, Tatar or Bashkiri. You're dreaming on the same level as tiki-torched Tucker on last year's pilgrimage to Budapest fawn over authoritarian kleptocrat Orban or Salvini in his Putin t-shirt in front of the Kremlin in 2020.