“Thug regimes”.
One of which actually has had a substantial history of free elections and is, now more than ever, deeply connected with the EU and its non-thug neighbors, both commercially and in person, as millions of Ukrainians work and live in Central and Western Europe, and pass back and forth over the border. There are hundreds of them even here in Bilbao, on the Atlantic coast.
You are talking through your hat.
Yeah, thug regimes. Putin and Zelensky.
Two peas in a pod.
I hope they kill each other off.