Putin's IBS<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Ukrainian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukrainian</span></a> identity is destroyed there with a passion - hundreds of thousands of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Ukrainian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukrainian</span></a> books burned down, people are punished for wanting to learn or speak <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Ukrainian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukrainian</span></a>.</p><p>This quote from the article by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Peter_Pomeranzev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peter_Pomeranzev</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Johanna_Peiper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Johanna_Peiper</span></a> describes the current situation well:</p><p>"But this idea that <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> will be ­satisfied with some haggling over territory misreads <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a>’s aims, which are to destroy <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>’s right to exist independently, politically, and culturally.</p>