NOT PYNCHON! just from Snyder's latest post

[Mark Kohut]

"The war is certainly not about destroying Ukrainian "Nazis."  It is a
little tiresome at this point, and I hope unnecessary, to rehearse the
basic facts of Ukrainian political life.  The far right is much less
present in Ukraine than it is in Russia (where it holds power) or for that
matter in the United States or almost any European country.  Ukrainians
elected a Jewish president with more than 70% of the vote.  The claim that
Ukrainians are "Nazis" is simply hate speech, designed to justify killing
them.  Indeed, the choice of that particular term exemplifies
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 two fascist policies: it is a big lie as Hitler proposed; and it begins
politics from the arbitrary choice of an enemy, as Carl Schmitt (the Nazi
legal theorist) recommended.  And it distracts us from the obviously fascist
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 features of the top
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 of the Russian state system
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."