Quote (IceMage @ Feb 17 2024 06:08pm)
Maybe the nuance should be in discerning who actually is a Nazi, and not pretending a rogue regiment in the Ukrainian military represents the whole country/government/military?
"Rogue regiment"? Biletsky is the commander of the forces who were fighting at Avdiivka, yesterday. Not in 2019, not in 2014
The same guy who leads the Nazi party and talks about stomping out the world jewry
is part of the top brass, the government and military.
During the Maidan, they led the revolution on the streets and were the decisive force in escalating it beyond a street protest. Now they're such a powerful force in the country politically that as soon as Zelensky's regime showed cracks and Zaluzhnyi became a political competitor, the very first thing he did was a photo op with Nazi leadership. Which he's done many times in the past. Here's a direct link btw, he just posted it two weeks ago;
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=6792963534146905&id=100002999784832&mibextid=qi2OmgThe guy he's posing with is Andriy Stempitsky, leader of the paramilitary arm of the Right Sector neo-nazi group in Ukraine, the same ones from the Maidan. Do you know what they were doing during the protests? Handing out translated copies of Mein Kampf and Protocols of the Elders of Zion. They are turbo nazis, who wanted to be so over the top in their nazism that you can't possibly deny that they're nazis all these years later. I mean shit, I may be a civil libertarian but it doesn't mean I have to carry my pocket constitution everywhere I go, I stash it in my glovebox.
Here's Haaretz reporting on them;
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2014-02-25/ty-article/.premium/ukraine-jews-new-dilemma/0000017f-f603-d044-adff-f7fb24ad0000https://archive.is/R7kdfQuote
The greatest worry now is not the uptick in anti-Semitic incidents but the major presence of ultra-nationalist movements, especially the prominence of the Svoboda party and Pravy Sektor (right sector) members among the demonstrators. Many of them are calling their political opponents "Zhids" and flying flags with neo-Nazi symbols. There have also been reports, from reliable sources, of these movements distributing freshly translated editions of Mein Kampf and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Independence Square.
While they don't represent the majority of protestors, some observers have estimated them at around thirty percent and belonging predominantly to the more militant, violent vanguard. Svoboda leader Oleh Tyahnybok is one of the three main leaders of the opposition now in power and there are rumors that he may be named a minister in the interim government
Of course he's not
just sitting merrily next to a nazi leader, they're under a framed portrait of Stepan Bandera, the idolized Nazi collaborator of WW2, and a OUN-UPA death-flag of the WW2 Nazi collaborators
So that's the #1 military leader in Ukraine courting the Nazi support, in case he needs to challenge Zelensky politically. And with Ukraine being routed and the money hose running dry that's a very real potential for the country to implode and the Nazis to overthrow the regime (again)
This post was edited by Goomshill on Feb 17 2024 06:41pm