Pretty much. It's kinda like how southern republicans routinely disparage democrats for being the "real" supporters of slavery in the Civil War... then double back saying the war was totally not about slavery, the (democrat-led) South was totally in the right to fight, etc. It's one thing to say that reality was more complex than a simplistic black and white vision, but it's outright inane to just try and flip the narrative for its own sake.
In this case, Ukrainian forces do have battalions openly endorsing Nazi or Nazi-like imagery - likely for the same simplistic mentality of "Russia bad => Nazis good", without any deeper understanding of the ideology. In turn, Putin is using that for his own propaganda purposes, since it's a narrative much easier to follow than the actual situation with ethnic Russians in Donbas for the past eight years.
As to who is "good" and who is "bad" at this stage - personally, I wouldn't mind seeing the Ukrainian version of the Patriot Front get steamrolled, especially if the canon fodder selected for that purpose is mostly comprised of their equivalent Chechen and Syrian lunatics. Ideally, they'd slaughter each other, and the world will be ever so slightly less violent in the end, which is always a good thing.
To be fair, it's less "genocide", and more "maintaining control of an ethnically distinct region that hates your guts". Something like the situation with the Uyghurs in China or the Kurds in Turkey, only they don't have a country to try and secede to. Well, not at the moment anyway.
Pretty much. It's kinda like how southern republicans routinely disparage democrats for being the "real" supporters of slavery in the Civil War... then double back saying the war was totally not about slavery, the (democrat-led) South was totally in the right to fight, etc. It's one thing to say that reality was more complex than a simplistic black and white vision, but it's outright inane to just try and flip the narrative for its own sake.
In this case, Ukrainian forces do have battalions openly endorsing Nazi or Nazi-like imagery - likely for the same simplistic mentality of "Russia bad => Nazis good", without any deeper understanding of the ideology. In turn, Putin is using that for his own propaganda purposes, since it's a narrative much easier to follow than the actual situation with ethnic Russians in Donbas for the past eight years.
As to who is "good" and who is "bad" at this stage - personally, I wouldn't mind seeing the Ukrainian version of the Patriot Front get steamrolled, especially if the canon fodder selected for that purpose is mostly comprised of their equivalent Chechen and Syrian lunatics. Ideally, they'd slaughter each other, and the world will be ever so slightly less violent in the end, which is always a good thing.
To be fair, it's less "genocide", and more "maintaining control of an ethnically distinct region that hates your guts". Something like the situation with the Uyghurs in China or the Kurds in Turkey, only they don't have a country to try and secede to. Well, not at the moment anyway.