Only in a Ukraine could you have, in your capital city, a street named after a Nazi collaborator and holocaust abettor Stephan Bandera, who is also officially recognized as a national hero.

https://untappedcities.com/2015/04/02/this-former-nazi-town-on-long-island-with-adolf-removed-street-still-exists/ lol

Characterizing it that way is minimization of Fascism.

as opposed to the facist free Russian invasion?

perhaps hidden in crevasses was a poor choice of words, since i agree that they are everywhere and not very interested in concealing themselves. as of late, they have been increasingly vocal; it's disgusting. what i meant to portray is that they are parasitic and it's not a new endemic, they are and have been infiltrating government entities and mass-market corporations since 1945. it's a separate (yet, important!) issue to tackle.

just the other week, i drove past a nazi demonstration with people waving swastika flags and wearing full-on nazi uniforms. out in the open, with megaphones, chanting out antisemitic slurs and doing that salute thing. in the us! we also have countless statues, memorials, streets, buildings, etc commemorating racist slave traders and "war-heroes". through active protests and public outcry, we've slowly been seeing some movement in getting rid of this stuff. next, we have to work at the stopping the spread from where it starts. this isn't achieved through bombing innocent civilians (nor sanctioning innocent civilians), but through a change in culture. that's what praxis is all about. it's a tired reference but Pedagogy of the Oppressed is how i started thinking differently about cultural movements.

my point is, it's not the reason russia is invading. misconstruing that as a motivator is simply propaganda at work. we can and should work to eradicate vermin like them but i simply do not see how connecting the two is doing anything other than misplacing the frame of putin's intent. it's also a False Dilemma because the moment you point something like this out, people will make it out to seem as if you're a facist or blindingly following the media's support for ukraine. funnily enough, i might be doing the same to you. i simply just wish people could talk about these things without calling each other prejudiced.

The point here is that given the long history of US doing horrible things, innocence cannot be assumed and must be proven. If US sees itself as being above having to answer such questions that may play well with its allies, but it's certainly not going to help its reputation with anybody else.

I did and it makes a ton of assumption such as the idea that all of the research was done there. Furthermore, we know those a bioweapon labs because some of them are left over from USSR days.

As I've noted in my comment, US could easily dispel all allegations by answering a few simple questions and allowing international inspection. I simply can't think of any reason not to do that.

Meanwhile, western resolve around sanctions is going to be weakened by western economies crashing, no need to create conspiracy theories for that. The people in the west don't seem to understand the seriousness of the economic blow back they're facing.

Your whole essays repo is very nice. Did someone add the biolab nonsense to that list in your repo or something? Sorry not really following the relevance of this to my comment