I would not claim RU is facist currently. But there is no one-dimensional axis in which fascism occupies whole "bad" side. Like stalinist USSR wasn't fascist by any means, but was much worse than fascist Italy. RU is bad enough currently to be afraid of its fascist turn.

Right, he complains that Trump is 1000 times weaker than Lee Kwan Yew yet

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One factor might be the mass realization that the war is going to be rather long, so potential accumulated earnings would be quite big.

That formations were based on the pre-war BARS system which was designed rather like US NG. Low pay, low risk, lax discipline . A part time job. It was abandoned for the new concept tested with Wagner: High pay, high risk, brutal discipline in combat situation.

They did not have enough time in 2022 for the new system. Its completely new system, mostly independent of old voyenkomats. It's a whole of government effort, including all levels bureaucracy down to rayon level, also state and municipality controlled companies.

It might seem like nitpicking, but it is EXTREMELY telling about the Western perception of the "problem," the foundational stone of the current state of things.
They normalized Crimea annexation and lies around it since 2014. And then, "suddenly", everything is like that.

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Way to go, liberal political cartoonist from the enlightened West!

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The Trumpist regime is pursuing an ideologically defined project that doesn’t merely seek to slightly adjust U.S. foreign policy. Just like on the domestic level, they are going for regime change on the international / global level as well. A fundamentally different world order.

There is this pervasive idea that Trump doesn’t really mean it, has no real position, and can therefore be steered and manipulated by tactical and diplomatic finesse; or maybe he’s just a businessman looking for a great deal. But that’s all irrelevant here. Clinging to it is just a coping mechanism.

It's for bragging rights, nothing more. Was conceived as such by the Ze team in the first place. But Trump tends to amplify any idea he likes so absurdly that it loses all sense for everyone but him.