I just had a very long conversation with an old friend of mine, who was a Soviet paratrooper on the other side of the Iron Curtain from me back in the 80s - I know that he speaks uncomfortable truths about Russia and I respect both him as a man but also as a soldier.
We talked about the war of course, but also what has gone on in Ukraine since their independence. I learned a lot that our media never discusses.
Putin talks about getting rid of the Nazis in Ukraine, and I had no idea of their prevalence there. Many of the Ukrainian units putting up the best resistance are paramilitary units outside of the actual Ukrainian military - they are essentially mercenary units. Who funds them, and why?
The Russian military has held back from carpet bombing and mass destruction because there are so many Russians in Ukraine. Some of these mercenary units are not allowing the civilians out of the towns they control - human shields.
There is the lingering stench of globalist on this whole operation the deeper one digs. Is my friend merely spouting Russian propaganda? I don’t know. And neither will any of us until long from now.
In the meantime, let’s pray that this doesn’t spiral out of control. We forget that the past two years have seen the globalist’s dream of population reduction thru their bioweapon have failed. War is their next option, and we are staring at it right now.
Zelensky and some of his cabinet are Jewish. I’m not sure how eager true neo-Nazis would be to serve someone of the ancestry, let alone protect them.
I also understand that after 2014, the Azov battallion was apparently absorbed into the National Guard and attempted to de-politiize by booting the proverbial jackboots. I’m not 100% certain it’s true, but in an effort to remain in the military and receive funding, let alone civilian and government support, it wouldn’t surprise me.
Our military has had its share of political factions. In the aughts during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, gang bangers were enlisting so they could receive the training, and then come home only to train their buddies who were on the streets. One of my friends is a Marine, and he said he wa ssurlrised to see Latin King tags in Iraq.
Most of those gangs have since dissolved into smaller factions or new gangs altogether, which I believe contributes to the high death rates of innocent people - they haven’t received such training, and blind fire. A lot of the guys who enlisted also got themselves off of the streets after a few years, got arrested, or ended up dead.
My friend also said that they had their fair share of skinheads, but they were very good at keeping it on the DL.
Smart guy. I don’t know about NAZIs, but I do know a large percentage of Ukrainians identity as Russian, or have Russian sympathies. My Ukrainian Jewish friends have never supported a Ukraine in opposition to Russia.