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[Ukraine] President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on April 17 that China is supplying weapons to the Russian military. His statement marks Kyiv’s first confirmation that Beijing supports Russia’s war effort by providing weapons.
Kyiv also presented Beijing with evidence that Chinese citizens and companies have participated in Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, the Foreign Ministry reported on April 22.
The Kremlin uses Victory Day celebrations for propaganda purposes, showcasing its military might and drawing on the Soviet victory in World War II to justify its aggression against Ukraine.
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Honestly, probably if Xi and Putin both died in moscow, fascism would probably die with them, Trump alone isnt enough for fascism to survive.
There is an entire support system behind these figureheads. You can’t just kill them and expect the system to be gone.
There is also a system behind Trump: The guy is not (just) Putin’s puppet; domestically, he has an uneasy coalition of the Christian right, the oil/gas industry, and tech libertarians behind him.
Not to mention that Trump, Xi, and Putin aren’t the only three authoritarians in the world. You have Orban, Erdogan, Berdimuhamedow, Tokayev, Un, etc.
That’s without mentioning most of the countries outside the west or in close contact with the west, or the growing political movement towards authoritarianism in other western countries. For example Meloni in Italy, Le Pen in France, Fico in Slovakia, Simion in Romania, and so on.
While I don’t believe fascism would die with them, don’t underestimate the power of “popular” leading figureheads. The system behind Trump for example is in need of a person such as Trump that does as they want and still gives the people the impression of doing something for them instead.
Sure, but at best it would be a temporary reprieve while new figureheads are being searched. But even as a non-USian non-Russian, I know that Vance and Medvedev are already household names and would be more than capable of taking over.