Thread by @rynkrynk

Remember how Ukrainians would get weird looks when we’d argue that Navalny isn’t really a friend of our cause, even though he’s against Putin’s regime? Well, here Navalny’s chief of staff goes after the brilliant Kamil Galeev for pointing out that Russia is colonialist…

https://twitter.com/leonidvolkov/status/1564123822198063104

…and spouts plenty of chauvinist lunacy along the way. Obviously.

Alright, to be totally fair, he doesn’t spout the chauvinist bs himself, he just shares a thread chock full of it, and claims that it is a fair assessment. Well, the thread has brilliant insight such as “Russia isn’t really colonialist, even though we mostly send troops from

regions such as Buryatia, since only a third of a local population is even ethnically Buryat. Gee, I wonder how come only a third of the local population is made up of the people that used to historically live there. Could it be… because of colonialism and expansion?

Meanwhile, you know, plenty of so-called liberal Russians are openly saying things like “ah, well Russian people didn’t commit all those bad things that happened in Bucha, those were those blasted Buryats, obviously”. And it’s just a normal part of the narrative for them.