He's an absolute dictator who has his (serious) opponents murdered. Seems clear to me.

"they’ve defended Russian territory, in Russia." LOL Prigozhin is dead, he's not doing another march on Moscow.

Putin is a fascist. That is a fact. (so is Trump for that matter) Fascists should be opposed, this is also a fact.

My question is why do you uncritically support fascists?

"You have got to be fucking kidding me." Send in the Wagner PMC group (named after Hitler's favourite composer and co founded by a NAZI) to oppose them Because of course Russia does not have a NAZI problem. (Shame Prigozhin got out of line and had to be murdered in the end.)

"Reasserting your empty claim is not evidence." If you spent 20 seconds more looking you would have found more news reports of the North Korean troops. But you didn't. And I'm not bothering.

Yes there is. Way more than your imagined threat to "russian" speakers in ukraine.

"NATO did exactly what they recognized for decades would push Russia to invade." Which is nothing.

"Ask how Russia should deal with a foreign power covertly manipulating their neighbor’s politics to elevate Nazis who would go on to bomb Russian speakers." LOL Now you are into delusional crackpot territory.

So your answer is to capitulate at every threat. Good going.

North Korea could not have been forced to use their troops to attack Ukraine if Kim Jong Un did not want them too. Iran I'm guessing did not care which hospital their weapons landed in.

Serious question here, but how exactly do you think the world should deal with a dictator armed with nukes? Capitulate at every single threat?

Maybe Iran and North Korea shouldn't have made such an obvious and stupid choice to escalate the conflict by allowing Russia to use their weapons?

"They don’t have any standing to enter the war," That is true, but then they are not entering the war. No more than Iran is.... And I like the phrase "boots on the ground"... utterly meaningless.