Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Alexander J. Motyl: Bawdy lyrics mock Putin in Ukraine
Ukrainians have taken to fighting back against Russia’s fascistoid dictator, Vladimir Putin, with obscenities and humor. A Ukrainian psychiatrist I recently saw on Ukrainian TV calls such behavior psychologically healthy during periods of "extreme stress" - an understatement for the savage war Putin and his terrorists have unleashed against Ukraine. The American social scientist James C. Scott might call both obscenity and humor "weapons of the weak." Whatever you call them, they’re spreading like wildfire across Ukraine.