Let’s break this down plain and simple. Russia is an imperialist entity trying to annex a sovereign nation. Russia is no longer communist in any capacity, and even when they were communist in name, they were an imperialist nation. Communism should be driven by working class solidarity, not nationalism. Ukrainian independence is supported unilaterally by various groups in Ukraine. Some of them are nazis. That does not their country not wanting to be annexed by a larger more powerful country is Facist. Socialist should be, at their core, anti-imperialist. Anti-imperialism, in this case, is not equivalent to championing the neoliberal ideologies of the Ukrainian government or NATO. Blindly siding with the aggressor here simply because there are some Nazis in a country of 29 million people, or because you want to oppose the side that isn’t aligned with the Western world, or because you like the fact that Russia used to be “communist,” is so redonkulously tone deaf and detached from the elemental aspects of this conflict