Thread by @ggreenwald

It's obviously shocking that Trudeau, Zelensky and the entire Canadian Parliament gave a standing ovation to a Nazi SS soldier.

But it's not surprising. The last decade, Western political and media circles warned Nazism was dominant in Ukraine, especially among its fighters.

https://twitter.com/jdforward/status/1706682849028415750

I've never seen a sudden Orwellian revision of history the way Western media re-wrote everything on Ukraine soon as Russia invaded:

It went from calling Azov "Nazis" to calling them heroes; from warning of neo-Nazism in Ukraine to maligning such warnings as Russian propaganda.

This media revisionism should disturb you no matter your views on Ukraine.

If you want argue it's worth it to arm Nazis and Banderites with sophisticated weaponry, argue that.

But pretending Ukrainian neo-Nazism is fake will keep producing embarrassments like the Canadian one.

The most bizarre and surreal event in the last decade of US politics - and it's obviously a hefty competition -- is watching US liberals who see NAZIS and HITLER under every MAGA hat finally encounter real-deal Nazis in Ukraine, and they are eager to arm, fund and revere them.

Last month, we examined the often surreal and even darkly hilarious ways that the Western media and other Western political institutions have had to downplay and justify the constant appearance of Nazi insignia and flags among their Ukrainian heroes:

rumble.com/v3kprbs-as-zel…