Well, for the audience of Russian highly regulated TV, news sites and social networks, the invasion of Ukraine was necessary because the poor neighbour was suffering under a regime of “actual self-described Neo-Nazis”. Russian Ministry of Defence even reports its daily results in terms of ”Neo-Nazis eliminated“. My parents are consumers of Russian media, and it is impossible to discuss the war with them, because they talk and think with these flexible terms like “Nazi”, “terrorist” and “propaganda”. And they are not unintelligent people.

I wish citizens of the free world would be more careful with their freedoms. Democracy and autocracy is a spectrum, and the slide towards dictatorship, from my experience, could be gradual and subtle.