making sketchy comparisons between bugs and militants in a gun ad during an insurgency does not exactly make one a neonazi. racism to that level is fairly common among non-neonazis I would say. and naturally, if you’re gonna bring that up as the smoking gun it would be criminal to not mention that putin actually sent troops to deal with those insurgents which is much worse than saying racist things. still, if you wanna make the argument he is a neo-nazi I think there are better things to point to like his attendance of the russian march or being in a political party alongside former national bolsheviks. I personally wouldn’t say guilt by association is that solid and I feel like you lose nuance by using it. cheapens the word nazi