The government-funded research project’s mysterious removal of Azov’s profile was followed by a State Department decision to allow the controversial right-wing unit to receive U.S. military aid.
Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion profile quietly removed from Stanford extremist group list
Previously:
US Lifts Ban on Arming and Training Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade
This article was originally posted as a thread on Twitter.
The New York Times palms off the deep historical and present-day links of Ukrainian nationalism to Nazism and genocide as merely “thorny issues,” i.e., a public relations problem for media propagandists, who are trying to sell NATO’s proxy war as a struggle for democracy.
The New York Times and the use of Nazi imagery by Ukrainian troops
Related:
Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History (archived)
U.S. inconsistencies highlighted by the Buffalo shooting
However, this excuse doesn’t wash. The U.S. liberal elite order knows very well they have been supporting Nazis and that interests are more important than ideology. Tellingly, Amazon profits from selling the Azov Battalion’s merchandise, with its white-supremacist sonnenrad symbol behind a modified swastika. At least they did until it was pulled after the Buffalo shooting.
Related:
Video by Turncoat Don on YouTube
Buffalo shooter wore same Nazi symbol as Ukrainian military
The Buffalo Mass Shooter’s Inconvenient Manifesto
West’s Support for Extremism “Blows Back” in New York Shooting
Mainstream Media is still ignoring this and even trying to turn it into ‘Russian disinformation.’
After months of denying the influence of Neo Nazis in Ukraine’s military, the Washington Post has finally conceded the point – long blasted as “conspiracy theory” or “Kremlin disinformation” – about the nation’s Azov battalion.
The Washington Post Finally Admits The Role of the ‘Far Right’ Azov Battalion in Ukraine
WaPo Article: Right-wing Azov Battalion emerges as a controversial defender of Ukraine
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