@SamLowryEsq @ArthurCleroux @plymouthian This is true, as these photos of Chrystia Freeland show. Many excused it by saying she didn’t understand what «слава Украины!» (Slava Ukraina!) on the scarf 🧣 means. She speaks fluent Russian & Ukrainian and reads Cyrillic. And she knows who the Svoboda Party is and their flag.
@SamLowryEsq @ArthurCleroux @plymouthian “Slava Ukraina!” means “Glory to Ukraine!”, but it is not some pedestrian phrase. It was used as a military greeting during the war, by Ukrainian nationalist neo-Nazi Bandera supporters of the UPA. This is a fact.
@SamLowryEsq @ArthurCleroux @plymouthian To curry increasing favor with Ukrainian nationalists and the neo-Nazi groups, former Western favorite Poroshenko rehabilitated the Nazi phrase for the Ukrainian army. Poro is well aware of the symbolism.
@SamLowryEsq @ArthurCleroux @plymouthian Trudeau and Freeland supporters may say, “yes, but they aren’t actually supporting Nazis.” Well, that’s not true. I didn’t realize until recently that they both embraced Svobodo co-founder and neo-Nazi Andriy Parubiy. newcoldwar.org/meet-andriy-pa…
@SamLowryEsq @ArthurCleroux @plymouthian What is 100% verifiable is that Parubiy was instrumental in coordinating Maidan forces on the front line against police. What looks increasingly likely is that he was also involved with the snipers that killed police and protestors. He became Rada Speaker. gordonhahn.com/2016/03/09/the…
@SamLowryEsq @ArthurCleroux @plymouthian Canadian officials also had a briefing done on the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion. Military officials actually met with them.
@SamLowryEsq @ArthurCleroux @plymouthian US officials were no better. Speaker Paul Ryan embraced his partner Parubiy in DC. McCain was the worst. He also embraced neo-Nazi Parubiy.
@SamLowryEsq @ArthurCleroux @plymouthian Of course, during the Maidan insurrection, McCain flew to Kiev with Democrat Senator Murphy. He stood on stage and legitimized Svoboda co-founder and neo-Nazi Oleh Tyahnybok.
@SamLowryEsq @ArthurCleroux @plymouthian And warmonger McCain went back in 2016 to push increased military and political support for Poroshenko & the Ukrainian military. Senators Graham (R) and Klobuchar (D) accompanied him. There is video of this meeting, where Graham talks of making the Russians pay a “higher price.”
@SamLowryEsq @ArthurCleroux @plymouthian Yes, there is nuance in all of this perhaps, but Parubiy and Tyahnybok have never been shy in expressing their real views. Even fan-favorite Kiev Mayor Klitschko embraced the far right. And he wanted streets in Kiev renamed for Nazi collaborators.
@SamLowryEsq @ArthurCleroux @plymouthian So, there is plenty of evidence and history that Ukraine and the US actively and openly supported neo-Nazi political and military personnel. And who was US point man on Ukraine? Joe Biden. Let’s save the Hunt r Biden-Burisma saga for another day. /end.
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