Posted on 08/03/2019 4:35:28 AM PDT by NorseViking
Five years on, Mikael Skillt still doesn't know exactly what made him leave his construction job and his girlfriend to fight in the war in Ukraine.
“I’ve done tons of soul-searching, and the more I think about it, the less I know why I came,” the 43-year-old told VICE News.
But an undeniable part of the draw was that Ukrainian ultranationalists, many with barely disguised neo-Nazi or white supremacist views, had been a driving force in the revolution. Skillt, at the time a notorious Swedish neo-Nazi with a 20-year history in the extreme-right scene, felt compelled to join their fight.
“All guys who seek adventure dream about this, to create history,” he said.
Skillt missed the revolution, arriving in Kyiv a few days after the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych. Instead, he got a war. A Kremlin-backed separatist movement soon swept across the Donbas, Ukraine’s southeastern region bordering Russia. Skillt, who had served for five years in Sweden’s National Home Guard, signed up to fight with the Azov Battalion, a newly formed far-right militia with deep neo-Nazi ties, and headed for the front lines.
Throughout 2014 and 2015 he served as a combat sniper for Azov, fighting in major battles in Mariupol, Marinka, Ilovaisk and Shyrokyne. “I managed to get most of the big ones,” he told VICE News.
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Probably so but the situation is barely comparable.
And I won't call Ukrainians who hate Russians as being anything which people in the United States should give a damn about, unless they do things to promote conflict between the US and Russia.
Not my circus. Not my monkeys.
The two things are not even close to being mutually exclusive...for example liberal Rachel Maddow regularly expresses 'concerns' about Russia and Donald Trump that have neoconservatives like Max Boot and Bill Kristal nodding their heads in agreement.
The more accurate and up to date description for your lot would be neo-liberal, as it captures the essence of your global interventionist, pro-homo agenda.
Sure, to you defenders of Putin everything that interferes with Russian aggression is “global intervention”.
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