There is no irony, the Russia of today actually stands for many hard right-leaning Westerner principles. Such as :
Heir, but not communist... It's the successor state of the USSR when it comes to nukes, army, and a bit of territory but not in value.
Totalitarian is not an ideology, it's a nature...looking from neutrality lens, today's Europe is basically a bastion of totalitarian democracy by not giving an inch to any ideology besides democracy such as Nazism, Communism, Anarchism etc.
If everything is measured by mere definition then not one ideology is totalitarian. There's no hint of totalitarianism in either Communism, Fascism, Islamism etc.
Bull, where is the fascist party of Germany now?
Not quite, every country including those with democracy stamp on it have red lines. The only difference is what they perceive as red lines.
Many of those who do so tend to be on the Russian payroll but even aside from that there it's not particularly ironic. The USSR may have been economically leftist but it was overwhelmingly culturally right-wing with only minor left-wing elements. There is a popular tendency among American right-wing figures to blame Soviet subversion for the rise of progressive ideology in American politics but that's not really true, a lot of that ideology has its roots in American political movements of the 19th century which predated the Soviet Union by a good 2-3 decades if not more. In fact the modern focus on social issues as part of socialist thought was almost exclusively birthed in the US. Even Karl Marx by modern standards was closer to a social conservative.
This general is an obese clown... Like seemingly 90% of Russian military leadership. What an embarrassing slob.
Russia is absolutely panicking down there. Ukraine has caused soooo much attrition to their artillery in the south over the last 3 months and Russians have no clue how to fight a war without simply using artillery to destroy a settlement before trying to capture it. They're such low skilled fighters, deeply lacking the equipment they need, especially at night. They are basically stuck in World War 2 as far as tactics are concerned and they have ability to properly integrate their technologies. Furthermore, the people they've drafted are incredibly low skilled and often deeply uneducated / low IQ. Their morale is horrible and they received almost no training before being deployed to the war zone. They're literally there as meat.
This general is an obese clown... Like seemingly 90% of Russian military leadership. What an embarrassing slob.
By his logic, I guess the West should supply all the munitions neccessary for Ukraine to flatten Minsk in Belarus, considering they've been allowing Russia to attack Ukraine from their territory since the beginning of the war. Maybe turning Minsk to rubble and killing a couple thousand Belarussians civilians along the way would get the point across.
Let's be honest, they weren't launched from Estonia. This is typical Russian propaganda. They got embarrassed due to their own incompetence, so they need someone to blame. These trolls talking about WW3 make me laugh. The Russian army is having its ass handed to it by one of the poorest countries in Europe. They want NOTHING to do with NATO. The VKS would be shattered in days, their entire Northern Naval fleet would be erased from existence and tens of thousands of citizens in Western cities in Russia would be hammered by thousands of aviation launched cruise missiles and glide bombs. Russia can't even win the war they're fighting, what the hell would they do if NATO put 250,000 troops onto the offensive on this fictitious Estonian front, and fielded 5000 Bradley, Marder, Rosomak and CV90 IFVs, 5000 mixed variant APCs, 3000 Abrams and Leopard 2 MBTs, 800 pieces of 155mm artillery, 100 HIMARS and M270s, backed up by hundreds of Apache helicopters and more than 1000 4th and 5th generation attack aircraft from across Europe?
Short of resulting to a nuclear standoff, any confrontation with NATO would be an absolute massacre for Russia and they damn well know it.
1) Of course you can. Quite a few former communist states were exactly this way. What you just described with private property falls under the purview of economic leftism. In terms of social ideology, USSR adhered to many traditionalist views. They tried going the "freedom to do anything" approach popular with modern Western leftists and it lasted only a decade before they walked it back. Hell, China is this way although I suppose you could argue whether they are truly economic leftists.
Strong oversimplification, there are so much more reasons to hate Russia. We are russofobs, because- how to put it nicely- lovely way of behaving in occupied countries. Endless killing and raping in form of well kept Mongol traditions. Holodomor in Ukraine is another example. So it is much more personal. By the way, it were german landlords, who ruled most of Baltics for 700 years, so rather look there. Ironicly, it took only one year of Russian occupation to fix this hatred- Nazi German soldiers were greeted as liberators in 1940 in Estonia.
In the end, a select party or groups in the state have the final say on which one is acceptable or not...which makes them just another version of a totalitarian society with a different name. Let's call it totalitarian democracy
