The western propagada campaign in regards to the Ukraine war is insane

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The main problem is that you mention false definitions of commonly known terms. We're arguing over facts, which is really dumb. To say that Putin is not running an authoritarian regime is completely bonkers, by any standard. One need only turn to grade school civics or statecraft. Rather than read my comments, have a look at the usual sources:

Search: russia authoritarian

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/03/13/russia-has-two-political-systems-normal-chaos-and-putins-override/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_under_Vladimir_Putin

Or this PDF on Alexander A. Galkin “Authoritarianism in Russia

https://www.jstor.org/stable/48609681

https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/how-the-putin-regime-really-works/

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199756223/obo-9780199756223-0205.xml

https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190093488.001.0001/oso-9780190093488

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Okay, I should state from the start that I am not reading liberal propaganda, nor am I interested in what liberals think, because they are wrong about everything.

With that said, I can agree that Putin is "authoritarian". That does not make him a fascist at all, however - he is, as I said, a liberal democrat. Authoritarian liberalism is not at all rare. Ataturk is a classic example - he was an authoritarian who utterly destroyed Ottoman society, institutions and social organisation in order to create a liberal democratic Turkish republic. This is what Putin is doing as well. He hates radicals. For pity's sake, he's waging a "denazification" war in Ukraine - how could you possibly believe him to be a Nazi or a fascist? The sheer level of cognitive dissonance required is unimaginable.