As Russian troops launched their attack on Ukraine on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the “special military operation” would seek the “denazification” of its sovereign neighbor. “Its goal is to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide… for the last eight years. And for this we will strive for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine,” Putin said during an address on state television. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish. It was not clear what exactly the Russian leader was referring to in his claims of Nazism. Russian media has repeatedly sought to portray Ukraine as being...