“When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” to carry out a “demilitarization” and “denazification” of Ukraine, he appeared to be referring to the neo-Nazi militias such as the Azov, who – with the blessings of the thehindu.com/news/internati…
2/“Ukrainian state – have been at the forefront of Kyiv’s military campaign against the Russia-backed separatist groups. Until the Russian invasion, many in the Ukrainian mainstream viewed the rise of the Azov with concern. After all, they were a law onto themselves and did not
3/“defer to the state — while their military units could operate independent of the Ukrainian chain of command, their street patrol units did not answer to the police, and their defiance of the law went unpunished. But the Russian invasion — belying its stated aim of
4/“denazification — may well end up laundering the Azov’s neo-Nazi baggage, as seen with Facebook’s U-turn, and strengthen the far-right forces, not just in Ukraine but beyond as well, which isn’t good news for Europe’s liberal democratic order.”
5/A day in the life of the “Ukraine good, Russia bad” two-dimensional world the Neanderthal West is living in where freedom-living Brits & foreigners are entering the battle to aid & assist Azov Battalion who just executed Ukrainian citizens in buses
https://twitter.com/Youblacksoul/status/1504597114445344784?s=20&t=Cb6MxqUSetlOtskqjHEggw
6/heading out along the humanitarian corridors Russia opened up. Really bad case of crabs in a bucket Azov Battalion mentality: murder your fellow citizens before letting them find refuge in Russia. Who are the real war criminals?
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