Gee, such coincidental timing. Right when NATO and the Western media cycle is moving on to the next war, Ukrainian Nazis suddenly make a comeback. Where were they after February 2022, Le Monde?
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Link is broken and I can't find the source with search engines. Le Monde always had a rabid anti Russian stance. I saw one of their articles rewriting Bandera's history of antisemitism and collaboration with Germany so I'm a tat bit surprised that they would plainly admit that the UA is full of fascists
The link works for me, but it's an RT story and it doesn't link to the Le Monde report.
Link is broken and I can't find the source with search engines.
Interesting, I just clicked it again and it works fine for me.
Yeah it's because I live in a free country where RT has been made inaccessible, for freedom
i think it's maybe this, about azov as expected, not whole army, so title is kinda meh
Worth noting that Azov is now one (or two?) full corps of Ukraine's army.^[https://azovlobby.substack.com/p/how-we-learned-to-stop-worrying-and]
Link is broken and I can't find the source with search engines
Do you live in a place where RT has been censored?
Ah right, that's it then, I don't have a VPN
lol why is this an RT link instead of the le monde article
In other news, water is wet!
A) this is RT propaganda under the hood
B) I'm betting I could find quite a few US soldiers (plus the Secretary of Defense) who have prevalent Nazi symbology tattoos and/or post pro Nazi materials online.
A) If Le Monde is RT, NYT is Hamas
B) Yeah, the US military is full of disgusting fascists. Do you think that the leftist response to that fact is "Oh, well if the US military does it, that must mean it's cool for other people to do it too, because we believe the US military is a legitimate thing that should continue to exists and not be ripped to atoms"?
Of course, your equivalence isn't that strong when you consider that groups like Azov, which were full of open pogromists (see the origin of the "orc" meme) went from being an openly and doctrinally fash paramilitary to formally folded into the military, where their influence was allowed to spread and members were even tasked with doing things like representing Ukraine to the Greek parliament for some reason.
When some barrack-room boys' club has a picture leaked of them brandishing Swastikas in the US, there's a scandal and sometimes people are fired or there is at least some formal apology as a garbage cover-story is offered. In Ukraine, it's not a leak, it's every other picture that is high enough resolution to make out what that funny patch is (spoiler, it's a totenkopf or lightning bolts or something), or at least that had been true for some time into the war. Even their original logo that they partially rebranded from well into the war was more fascist iconography. But, like, what do you expect? Banderism is popular and has faced almost no challenge, down to that slogan, "slava ukra'ini!" which was another chestnut for OUN-B enjoyers passed right down from their father.
But let's say that it was just like the US military socially. Any leftist should conclude that it should also be like the US military in terms of the prescription: disassembled with prejudice. Bringing the US up here serves no purpose, unless you want to say that their destruction is more urgent because it would do more good for the world, where I would agree with you, but the Nazi symbology has very, very little to do with it.
"Under the hood" refers to the force behind something being hidden or unexpected, literally coming from the engine of a car being hidden from view underneath a large panel called a "hood", meaning it could be a different make or model than the one suggested by the car's exterior.
RT are not hiding their involvement with this article. It is hosted on their website with their branding, suggesting it is their writing. It's Le Monde propaganda under the hood, because Le Monde's article is what this one is based on.
Why am I explaining this? Becuase you are not very intelligent and should feel too embarrassed to share your half baked opinions.
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