Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Ukraine Strikes DEEP into Russia" video.

  1.  Lars Hildebrandt  : The simplest way I can respond to that excellent definition you just gave is by saying: Not all populists are fascists, but all fascists (leaders) were populists. E.g. Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, to name the most famous three.
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  2.  @sk.43821  : He’s using the term in the way it is understood worldwide, rather than any special meaning that the Americans attribute to it. Populists like Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Franco, Mao, Pol Pot, etc; populists who use the cult of their personality as their tool for politics, so that people ignore the broader policies of their alleged party, or blame any mistakes on that party, rather than their populist leaders. He’s obviously thinking of Putin in particular, but with Hungary and Belarus on their borders, the Ukrainian grasp of populism will be more honed than the average westerner.
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  3.  @skywise001  : Agreed. Get well soon, Jake. Hope you’re just talking about jet lag and nothing worse?
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  4.  @path1024  : That’s because you don’t understand what populism is. Named a populist leader that hasn’t caused great evil in the world? Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini were populists. Currently, Xi Jin Ping, Kim Jong Un and of course, Vladimir Putin are the most well known populists in the world, with people like trump trying to emulate them. And it’s interesting that trump already has countless unnecessary domestic deaths on his record, as a direct consequence of his flat denial of the Covid crisis from 2021 onwards, which is highly reflective of Stalin’s approach to Russia’s Holodomor, a famine caused by his policies, which was never allowed to be mentioned in his presence, let alone in the press, which claimed many millions of lives . . . Most of them in Ukraine, incidentally.
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  5.  @path1024  : What are YOU, “even talking about”??? 🥴 You obviously don’t know what a, “populist,” is, son. 🤷‍♂️ ALL fascists have populist leaders, kid! ALL OF THEM 🤦‍♂️. Populists want you to love them and stop thinking for yourself. They want you to love them and stop thinking about political subtlety and political complexity. Populists say and do whatever they think will be, “popular,” among their main base of supporters, regardless of hypocrisy or self contradiction. ALL of THE most dangerous and evil rulers in history were populists. Especially all of the fascists. Maybe read more and talk less? Are you a Putin shill? 🤷‍♂️
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  6. Hope you feel better soon, Jake.
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  7. Well, it’s about damned time! There must be countless legitimate targets in Russia, with no civilian collateral damage involved. Military air bases are a way of waking the civilian population up to what it feels like to be vulnerable. This could be the start of something big. I do hope so.
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