Thread re: people who went mask off about wanting to start WW3 yesterday
For starters, NAFO, but no surprise there. #Article5 is their go-to hashtag. 1st image is supposed to be the notoriously Polish NAFO founder ("Kama") and 2nd are some of his retweets, including "Shinzofella," a Polish gore artist who started "DarkNAFO."
Anders Aslund, Swedish resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, but again, no surprise there. And @lilyslynch tweet reminds me of this Swedish "OG NAFO fella" who led "DarkNAFO" exodus after getting some pushback for declaring "Kama is our overlord"
Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko only had 4k followers before Russia invaded. Then she became Twitter famous by cheerleading escalation to WW3. Since 2019, her father advised the "Capitulation Resistance Movement" which threatened to overthrow Zelensky if he negotiated with Russia
Before becoming the youngest 🇺🇦 MP, Sviatoslav Yurash was a foreign policy advisor & senior spokesperson for Zelensky's presidential campaign. Before that he was deputy director of the nationalist (anti-Ze) Ukrainian World Congress in Kyiv. More about him:
Zelensky, his advisor (Podolyak), Foreign Minister (Kuleba) and Defense Minister (Reznikov) unequivocally blamed Russia when they should have known better. It's easy to interpret this as their attempt to start WW3. But hard not to with Reznikov: "Gloves are off. Time to win."
At the same time, interesting to see people you think can't wait to start WW3 not jump at the opportunity to declare the time is now for Article 5
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There are a lot of disturbing videos on that Telegram channel (~264k subscribers) including the Christchurch massacre ("full video in good quality"). On Instagram, where they have 600k followers, the "Ragnarock" brand/group has indicated that it's connected to AZOV & @DI_Ukraine
The admin of "Ragnarock" created a personal Instagram account where he's uploaded clips of "my war." In these videos of his, we see someone with an Azov patch, and a fighter from Azov's unit in 🇺🇦 Special Operation Forces that created the 3rd Assault Brigade (now touring Europe)
Jr. Sgt. Volodymyr Vernyhora is sitting on the left, appears to have a patch from the Azov Brigade's Mykola Stsiborskyi school (named for fascist OUN ideologue who "envisioned the state as a 'natiocracy,' an ethnically defined totalitarianism"-@parudling)
Lt. Arseniy Fedosiuk has been photographed with people making Nazi salutes. His laptop has a sticker of the hardcore neo-Nazi paramilitary group ("Patriot of Ukraine") that spawned Azov. He followed an overtly neo-Nazi VK account "12 years not a slave" (referring to 1933-45)
Part 3 🧵— Some have said Azov can't be neo-Nazi, because one of its most famous fighters is of "Jewish origin." After losing a leg in Azovstal and being freed in a prisoner exchange, Ruslan "David" Serbov visited Israel for rehabilitation, which he used to promote 🇺🇦 Nazi brands
"David" was among the Azov fighters flown to Mariupol by 🇺🇦 military intelligence after 🇷🇺 invaded. Here he is in
Azovstal with Oleksandr Kravtsov, the Hitler-tattooed commander of the "Ведмеді SS," an openly neo-Nazi squad that fought with Azov Regiment.
Azov's "myth-busting" website () says that "David" went to Israel in November 2022. By February 2023 he visited the Dead Sea, wearing a hoodie that says "NS," which is a double entendre: "National Socialist" and "North Side," the name of this neo-Nazi brand azovcontrafake.com
According to his LinkedIn account, Smelyansky has worked in Tel Aviv for years and has "native or bilingual" proficiency in Hebrew + Russian, but he obviously identifies as a 🇺🇦 neo-Nazi. Here he is with Azov leader Andriy Biletsky, wearing 🇺🇦 Nazi brands "SvaStone" and "REICH."
Smelyansky's a big fan of SvaStone owned by Arseniy Bilodub, a leader of extremist Right Sector & the neo-Nazi band "Sokyra Peruna." Smelyansky has one of their "V Legion" shirts & his private Instagram quotes one of their songs. He met Bilodub last year.
The "Israeli Friends of Ukraine" is said to be "the leading pro-🇺🇦 organization in 🇮🇱" & works closely w. the 🇺🇦 embassy in Tel Aviv. Zelensky awarded medals (3rd degree Order of Merit) to IFU co-chairs, including Vyacheslav Feldman who has signed rockets for Gaza "Slava Ukraini"
A year ago, the "Israeli Friends of Ukraine" arranged meetings in Tel Aviv for Azov vet Arseniy Fedosiuk (circled in 3rd pic), whose wife has traveled around the world on behalf of this neo-Nazi movement & used to work for one of its far-right publishers.
Does anyone think that the far-right Svoboda party having a unit in Ukraine's National Guard led to the "depoliticization" of either? Of course not, because that sounds ridiculous, except when you replace "Svoboda party" with "Azov movement," then you are making perfect sense...
@lingerence noticed that "Rubizh," the 🇨🇦-trained "Rapid Reaction Brigade" in 🇺🇦Nat'l Guard, shared an image of one of its solders w. red eyes and a patch of neo-Nazi "Misanthropic Division" affiliated with Azov mvmt. He's also wearing an Azov-linked brand, "Company Group Team."