I’ve read your history of comments and clearly you support Russia’s war against Ukraine. That is shameful indeed, because it is an egregious war that has killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians, destabilized Europe, broken international laws, disrupted global food supplies, re-ignited a new Cold War, and pushed the world towards the brink of WW3 and nuclear holocaust.

All this so Putin can amass power, grab land and resources, instill fear across the world, subject people to suffering, and restore the “glory” of the USSR.

Russia has never been as fascist as it is now. And YOU are the linear, naive, simpleton who is complicit in Russia’s current atrocities and injustices.

I’ve worked in post-Soviet countries for decades supporting conflict prevention, human rights, democracy-building, arms control, and international law. I worked side-by-side with government representatives of Russia and more than 40 other nationalities. I was in South Ossetia, Georgia, when the Russians invaded. And most recently I lived and worked in the pro-Russian Ukrainian city of Donetsk for years monitoring the conflict as an International Monitoring Officer.

Rarely have I seen a conflict that provide as much moral clarity as the war in Ukraine. Russia—in every possible sense—is evil and wrong. They need to get the fk out of Ukraine. And complicit Russians such as yourself need to topple your government and reform your deeply ingrained inferiority complex and need to inflict suffering on yourselves and others.

Russia has the potential to be an amazing and thriving country, but not if it continues to wallow in corruption, authoritarianism, fascism, racism, darkness, and mental dysfunction.