When Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the reason for his bloody invasion of Ukraine was to purge it of “drug addicts and neo-Nazis,” the Russian dictator provoked sneers and laughter. It was a ludicrous claim against a nation that had elected a Jewish president who lost family members to the Holocaust with 75% of the vote in 2019. The far-right party, by the way, won 1.6%. Putin’s rationale to “de-Nazify” Ukraine by the barbaric […]