[flymaipie]

As a Russian citizen who studied the Bolshevik revolution, the rhetoric and dehumanizing language in this article is disturbingly familiar – it mirrors the same attitudes Bolsheviks used against their "class enemies." While Russian media today employs similar tactics against Ukraine and the West, it's truly saddening to see this style of discourse becoming normalized on the global stage. When respected Western publications adopt the same divisive rhetoric they criticize others for using, it lowers the standards of public discourse for all nations. This normalization of hatred, regardless of its target, should concern anyone who has studied where such patterns historically lead.

[aguaviva]

I don't see how you can make such a comparison.

The article is a bit overdrawn in places -- but for whatever negative sentiment is expressing, it is directed entirely at specific politicians, who are fair game for such criticism, right?

Not against an entire country, or class of people.