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Monarchies and dictatorships are just different flavors of authoritarian rule. They aren't the same but their effect on the population is essentially the same. The comparison is fine, but for people to whom "words mean things", the distinction may be more important.

Re Zelensky, forgive me if I am wrong, but isn't one of the current defining qualities of a dictator their brutality and fascistic rhetoric? Or is this framing of him based on the powers he has access to within the framework of the Ukrainian government?