Biden administration lifts ban on directly arming & training Azov Battalion, claims no evidence of human rights violations
Biden administration lifts ban on directly arming & training Azov Battalion, claims no evidence of human rights violations
Looks like Operation Gladio C is moving ahead at a respectable pace.
Apparently it's not a human rights issue to engage in political repression by target an ethnically russian population of civilians with indiscriminate violence.
From my brief skim of an article about this, it seems like the ‘human rights violations’ part has a statute of limitations. Reading between the lines, it’s like they absolved anything that has happened since RF’s SMO started. Anything related to Donbas or the coup period is no longer relevant to this determination for the US.
Basically they are claiming they have kept ‘clean’ for like 2 years (extremely dubious claim - but easy to dismiss any reports as Russian disinformation operations). Liberals are like Charlie Brown and fascists are Lucy holding the football.
black sun? isn't that a song from soundgarden?
Naa, it's a weird movie with a great soundtrack by Koreyoshi Kirahara.
That's Black Hole Sun no?
We're the good guys™️ and we have to beat the evil russian orcs and the only way to to do that is to arm and fund nazis. You're delusional for not supporting us against the axis of evil. Tankie!
There's a Norm McDonald joke that goes, "Every history book says the good guys always won. What are the odds?"
a while back I compiled a list of youtube links from mainstream western media sources about Azov and other nazis in Ukraine
seems like a good time to share this again
https://hexbear.net/comment/3728530
the top reply to my comment contains archive links as well
Here is some of my list of pre-invasion articles.
- BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
- AP, 2014: Airstrike in eastern Ukraine kills 11 civilians
- Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
- The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
- The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
- WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
- Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
- The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
- openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
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A few “we created this” articles:- Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
- Truthout, 2015: The Ukraine Mess That Nuland Made
- Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
- Consortium News, 2022: Evidence of US-Backed Coup in Kiev
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Some larger context articles:- History of Fascism in Ukraine Part I: The Origins of the OUN 1917-1941
- History of Fascism in Ukraine Part II: The OUN during World War 2, 1941-1945
- History of Fascism in Ukraine Part III: 1944-1963 UPA War, Ratlines, and the Assassination of Stepan Bandera
- History of Fascism in Ukraine Part IV: The Global OUN Network in Exile, 1962-1992
- The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
Can't commit "human rights violations" when your defining characteristic is your belief that your enemy's blood and ancestry makes them subhumans that require extermination.
Can't recognize "human rights violations" when you exclusively define them as violations of the right to buy and sell humans.
they're just dunking on us, there's no great utility to arming ~2,000 max guys in a war this big, and they could've laundered it to them with minimal trouble unofficially. they're a criminal gang for fucks sake.
they could've laundered it to them with minimal trouble unofficially
implying they weren't already doing that lol
When you put it that way I’m extra pissed off
It's meaningless in practice, Azov is for a long time part of regular army and US was arming those and thus also Azov (as "elite" brigade they even most likely got a priority for equipment). The only point of this announcement is doubling down on whitewashing nazis.
the lesser of two evils"I'm voting for Biden because unlike Trump, he doesn't support neo-Naz- oh... uh... You sure? Ok... Like I was saying I'm supporting Biden because he likes ice cream just like me."
Will zionists complain about Biden supporting antisemitism? Hmm
They're really pulling out all the stops now that it's basically over. Might as well squander any moral high ground you can claim after the fact.
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They would get gold in mental gymnastics.
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The battalion, whose neo-Nazi origins have long been the subject of Kremlin propaganda, is one of Kyiv’s most battle-hardened and popular units.
All mainstream press articles also use generic photos of Ukrainian soldiers or careful angles and images that don’t have any Nazi or Azov imagery
The indisputable facts of my quite literal origins as a Nazi are being subject to some sort of propaganda campaign!!
NBC really saying "Yes they're Nazis but it's Russia's fault that sounds bad".
loling and, indeed, lmaoing
Death to America
Let's arm a fascist group, surely nothing bad will happen
ah. So BBC was just putting in a bit of groundwork the other day then.
