The grumbling about the Azov Battalion and martial law in Ukraine is deflection. Pretty much every nation has some amount of paramilitary nationalism, and it should surprise nobody that a country at total war is going to suspend civil liberties. The war in Ukraine has basically nothing to do with fascism and everything to do with Russian revanchism that NATO would never allow to go unopposed, and it's pretty clear what's in the best interest of Western Europe and the US in this situation. Letting a perennial bad actor walk all over you because there's a veneer of largely irrelevant historical legitimacy over what is pretty clearly a test to see what you'll let slide is just stupid.
