I realize you have a lot of experience in that part of the world, and your substantive contributions are welcome here, but outright slurs are just so totally unacceptable that, no matter how much we value your substantive contributions, we are going to have to ban you if you keep it up. Stop it now please.
If you think it still should not be there, feel free to delete that post.
I'd say the original post is tactless in its wording, and is expressly offensive.
Even if any point can be drawn from it, it wouldn't still be possible to twist, or rephrase it without still sounding offensively.
As for me, I understand that my words sound very rough to HN audience. I'll try to be more tactful here.
It was hard for me in this case since I'm a Ukrainian who lives in Ukraine.
From my perspective, Putin is using exactly the same strategy as Hitler did – fueling hate towards others so it will be much easier to conquer them and kill them with no doubts.
My words are not just "slurs". There are facts, like Ilovaisk massacre in 2014 [1], that already confirm what I'm saying.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ilovaisk#Government_...