The root cause of the war is Putin's fundamentally sick Russia. He is right – it must be eliminated

In a sense, Putin is even right – to end the war in Europe, it is indeed necessary to eliminate its "root causes.".

However, the real "root causes" are not the existence of Ukraine as a state and as an identity, as Russian military propaganda tries to impose, but the existence of modern Russia, a country where a fascist oligarchic regime has flourished under the condescending gaze of weak Western democracies.

Countries where a significant part of the population has been deeply poisoned by years of propaganda, imbued with hatred, imperial superiority, revanchism and support for aggressive wars against neighbors.

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