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1/X Re that #NYTimes semi-whitewash (grey-wash?) for fascist symbols all over Ukraine's military, my old, old warnings (15 Feb 2022); and yes, for the squeamish "I-save-myself-for-CNN" types among you, published on DREAD RT... 
2/X ... The pattern should be clear by now - a far-right [here: Azov] unit that has successfully nestled inside Ukraine’s military is having spectacular PR success in the West. And it was easy. Because, it seems, almost nobody cares. It is, ...
3/X ...after all, not hard at all to first notice an arm patch that pretty much screams “I have an SS past” (as it is meant to) and second do some elementary research about Azov. There is no secret about its ideology and politics. A very basic internet trawl will do. If you ...
4/X ...call up a few easily identifiable experts on the topic, in and outside Ukraine, you’ll get an earful from them as well... There are really only two explanations for this fiasco: either there is deliberate collusion of Western media with the PR strategies of the ...
5/X ...Ukrainian far right or Western media are being incompetent on this topic. This is, moreover, no exception. On the contrary, there’s a long-standing pattern. For years now the Ukrainian far-right has had two crucial kinds of help: Domestically, at home in Ukraine, the...
6/X ...crisis of 2013/14 saw a fatal closing of ranks between self-declared liberals and democrats and right-wing radicals. The underlying logic was simple and opportunistic: My enemy’s enemy must be if not my friend then at least some sort of ally. And since both mainstream ...
7/X ...and far-right protesters were opposed to the same old regime under then president Yanukovich, a de facto coalition emerged, in which the far-right – very well organized, aggressive, and determined – did not dominate but had great, sometimes decisive influence. When ...
8/X ...Ukrainian or foreign critics challenged this devil’s pact, the fiercest flacking came from intellectuals, experts, and, in reality, volunteer information warriors who clearly recognized that the far-right connection had to be downplayed to facilitate maximum Western ...
9/X ...support for Ukraine. Therefore, anyone pointing out this inconvenient fact was slandered as some kind of Russian stooge. The other great support for the Ukrainian far-right has come not from inside Ukraine but abroad. Its main forms have been ignorance and deliberate ...
10/X ...deception, often by omission.
Perhaps those Western journalists and editors participating in this whitewashing are just careless, perhaps they feel that they are just answering tit-for-tat in the great “information war” with Russia, maybe they believe that Ukraine ...
Perhaps those Western journalists and editors participating in this whitewashing are just careless, perhaps they feel that they are just answering tit-for-tat in the great “information war” with Russia, maybe they believe that Ukraine ...
11/X ...deserves the turning of a blind eye. Whatever they think they are doing (if they are thinking at all), they are wrong. The far right never and nowhere deserves a pass. And there are, by the way, many Ukrainians who do not want it given a pass either.
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