foundit66 Nov 2005 17,504 17,708 California Yesterday at 9:11 PM #1 Among Russian President Vladimir Putin’s many fantastical pretexts for invading Ukraine, the urgent need for its “denazification” may be the most preposterous. Ukraine isn’t free of domestic extremists, but Putin’s claims are pure disinformation. In fact, the Russian strongman has been supporting neo-Nazis and white supremacists for years, including mercenaries and separatists who have waged war on Ukraine since 2014.Putin isn’t fighting neo-Nazism. He nurtures it, making his gaslighting about Ukraine even more repellent.Perhaps Moscow’s most notorious military proxy is the Wagner Group, mercenaries the Kremlin has used to...