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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I was just reading about this the other day: Like Bernie wants to stop resourcing Israel, some US politicians had a condition that Azov would not be assisted. But apparently the Pentagon got that overruled

I think that was way before Israel's current massacres. Congress banned providing direct support to Azov in 2015 and then unbanned direct support in 2016 under pressure from the Pentagon. There might have been another attempted ban after that, I don't remember. Even when the ban was in place it's not like it was hard to get around, they just had the Azov guys join a different battalion for the duration of the training (and wear long sleeves).

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/congress-has-removed-a-ban-on-funding-neo-nazis-from-its-year-end-spending-bill/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

No, you skipped the whole thread. There's nothing cool about nazis. They're a plague to everyone. When invading countries and when infighting against the invaders.

That's great, so you would you agree that the US should stop providing money, training, and weapons to Ukraine and its Nazi (and Neonazi) paramilitaries?

By the way, here's a source of Zelensky saying it's "normal and cool" for people to think that Stepan Bandera is a hero: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/6768

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

"The Waffen-SS is a bad look for Germany, even though they fight against Russia's judo-bolshevik forces"

Did the fact that Zelensky and the entire Canadian Parliament give a standing ovation to a Waffen-SS member cause you any sort of ideological dissonance? Or do you agree with Zelensky that its "normal and cool" for people to support Nazi collaborators?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Then again, Donbas backed by fascist Russia and Ukraine having neonazi groups fighting each other, anti-fascists can't support either. Mathematically considering, Russia's invasion succeeding would promote more fascism to spread. What would prevent them or others in the future?

Which Donbas neonazi groups are you talking about? The only one I'm familiar with is Rusich group, which consisted of 30 or so guys. That's less neonazis than you find in single US marine battalion. The other example I can think of is that one Senior Lieutenant who wore the R3ICH operator skull and a valknut while receiving an award. There's been back and forth on that guy and if those patches were looted. The R3ICH skull in particular is heavily associated with the Ukrainian military's neonazis and is sold by the same company that makes Zelensky's famous green clothes, Zelensky himself has been photographed with his bodyguard prominently displaying the R3ICH skull. It was a bad look for the Lt. either way but he's still just one guy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Donbas is part of Ukraine. "Russia going home" doesn't mean they just retreat to areas where they already removed a significant portion of the Ukrainian population and replaced them with Russian sympathizers

You know I've never heard about this. The line I usually hear is Russia has brainwashed the Ukrainians there into becoming "Russia-backed separatists". How much of the population of Donbas has been forcibly removed and are there any reputable western media sources where I can read more about this?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (15 children)

There has always been a non-military solution... Russia can go the fuck home and stop trying to invade other countries.

Wouldn't that just lead to the citizens of the Donbas Republics being forced to fight alone against Ukraine and its remaining far-right paramilitaries?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Sorry that the Soviets prevented the West from putting as many Nazis in charge of Germany as you would have wanted.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

It's a shame he got banned. I wanted to know if he was a CIA agent or a Navy Seal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You have a point. Though the US white supremesists haven't launched such organized and open assaults. So maybe it just scales with human rights abuses.

US white supremacists genocided countless Indian tribes. They also rounded them up in reservations and then enforced policies designed to kill them. Look up the Trail of Tears sometime.

There's also the terror campaigns waged by the various Ku Klux Klans and other organizations against African-Americans.

If you want something more recent there's also the Tulsa race massacre. There's also the many, many deputy gangs in the US. Those launch organized and open assaults against other Americans all the time but they're also very distributed so we don't have one big incident to point to.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Could you tell us what sort of power you've been entrusted with?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

"To the last Ukrainian" is no longer enough, now future Ukrainians have to die too.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Tungsten penetrators perform better than DU ones. They're just more expensive and Ukrainian lives aren't worth that much.

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