Should racism be criminalized?

I'm posting here because /pol/ is braindead and full of shills shilling shills at this point.

Now, the most common reasons presented as the reason for the war in Ukraine are
>m-muh NATO! M-MUH NAZIS! M-MUH JOOS

But: Putin doesn't care about that. He uses ideology as a tool.

Forget all the fucking prattle about NATO and Nazis, it doesn't matter. It's a fucking smokescreen, something to throw off the normies and sheeple- Putin doesn't really believe in that.

Putin has repeatedly claimed, that he wants to "erase the idea of Ukraine", and bring them back to the Russian state? To erase the "Nazis" or "Banderites"- That is, Ukrainian nationalists, whether or not they are faschists. Solovyov has echoed that line- And he normally toes the Kremlin lines.

What Putin cares about is Russia, and Russian culture. He wants to be remembered like Peter the Great, and this is clear in his essay about historical unity of Russia and Ukraine, to stamp out an persistent challenge to the prevalent Russian identity, the idea of what it means to be "Rus", a people who see themselves as an champion of the slavonic peoples. This is common sentiment in the Russian cultural conciousness- And far from unique.

Let me illustrate an example. Take, Joseph Brodsky. Russian nobelist, well-known poet. A true Russian patriot and a posthumous Hero of the Federation. He published a poem in 1992, called "On Ukrainian Independence", which you can see in the pic. It was published in the duma gazette, Пapлaмeнтcкaя гaзeтa in 2014, and talked about in media. It's full of insults for Ukraine.

What's interesting, though, is how it ends:

"When you are dying and scratching your deathbed, you'll be wheezing Alexander's lines and not the Taras' bullshit"

And bear in mind- This was written in 1992.

But what does this statement mean?

Favourite Nazi Thread

What would Africa be like if it wasn't colonized?

What are the rightful borders of Ukraine?

I’m going to post this every day until you remember it

200 year old Bottle of Wine under the Slaughter Stone was discovered 100 years ago, that makes Stonehenge only 200 years old?

>black teenager accidentally brushes a white girl's arm in an elevator
>days of rioting and 1/3rd of a city destroyed follows
*sips tea*

How did mountain men entertain themselves? It must've been fucking boring without games or the internet.

Was it divine retribution?