• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      It’s crazy, because you’ll see both Russians and Ukrainians claim the other country has been infested and corrupted by the Evil Brown Foreigners, Woke Antifa Supersoldiers, and the Insidious Jewish Menace.

      And its hardly unique to these two. Fascism is rampant all over Europe, particularly Eastern Europe where purging the old Soviet loyalists typically meant dumping resources into the laps of far-right extremist groups and their corporate backers. We could very easily see border wars between Ukraine and Poland or Ukraine and Romania in our future, entirely based on the “You’re people are inferior to our people and must be purged!” genocidal rhetoric that led to the bloodbaths in the Donbas and the massacres across occupied Ukraine.