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US lifts weapons ban on Ukraine's Azov brigade
BBC ^ | 11 June 2024 | By Jaroslav Lukiv

Posted on 07/13/2024 8:57:45 AM PDT by Red6

The US has lifted its long-standing ban on weapons supplies and training to Ukraine's Azov brigade, whose origins were mired in controversy over alleged links to far-right groups.

A state department spokesman told the BBC a vetting process "found no evidence of gross violations of human rights" by the brigade.

The Azov brigade, now a unit within Ukraine's National Guard, hailed the move, saying Russia's "lies... received a devastating blow".

Moscow condemned the decision, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying the US was "even prepared to flirt with neo-Nazis" to suppress Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly made false claims about a "neo-Nazi regime" in Kyiv to try to justify first the annexation of Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula and backing of pro-Moscow fighters in the east in 2014, and then his full-scale invasion launched in 2022.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: azov; azovbatallion; killkillkillforpeace; mic; russia; ukraine; war; welfarewar; zeepersthrilled
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Wow-

When it's us, it's always different.

Our excuse is a good excuse.

The article makes these guys sound like innocent victims.

Obviously of Russian propaganda.

Low profile we slipped this through.

Providing weapons to folks with swastikas, that goose step, were founded by a open and flagrant Nazi, who see Nazi's as hero's, who give the Hitler Salute or a modified version thereof, who have a modified version of the Swastika as their unit emblem, have Nazi funerals, where many of their members have Neo-Nazi tattoos... but now they're good guys!!! Hahahaha

Azov gets a bad rap because of Russian propaganda. Oh yeah, all that Russian propaganda I get as we censor 40 Russian media outlets and all their government sites, censor social media... but let Neo-Nazi whack jobs have free reign on social media for a while at least: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/facebook-new-zealand-neo-nazis-white-supremacists-a8837886.html

Other Sources:

https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-azov-brigade-us-arms-ban-lifted-russia-1913372

https://theintercept.com/2024/06/22/ukraine-azov-battalion-us-training-ban/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/10/azov-brigade-ukraine-us-weapons/

No doubt, these guys are good fighters. No doubt they have the will power and guts needed to excel in battle. Units like this make a difference. But remember this when someone else arms a whack job and we play the outrage card, when our moral and just leaders call for a halt in arms deliveries or money to such crazy and vile folks.

***We will crawl into bed with ANYONE, when it serves the agenda of the day.***

BTW, the non-propagandist and US intel originating Google has done a fantastic job at filtering and ranking bad images of Azov. Great work! Really cleaned up well, few Nazi images: https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&client=firefox-b-1-lm&sca_esv=e16c6915a66132bd&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ADLYWIJ1FUG_egFLy-QRm2UVsBWi27lwzQ:1720882483454&q=azov&udm=2&fbs=AEQNm0Aa4sjWe7Rqy32pFwRj0UkWd8nbOJfsBGGB5IQQO6L3J5MIFhvnvU242yFxzEEp3BeeRDeomFf8DkO7myIzvXpi7y6PhIbYga3P1WigctWPTN09qTWwJgCc3IAP3sYYBFKsqw6mzg9XFxF9aPA0UxA4Y-9RSBe7GQH3p_1-r_Db0ziO5J6nNQu8lwFwoRVBh1Pg9ET45y1KvZkE7ICm9x9J3hQACA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi2oIHpoqSHAxVjSjABHaNxCAwQtKgLegQIDxAB&biw=1920&bih=937&dpr=1

1 posted on 07/13/2024 8:57:45 AM PDT by Red6
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To: Red6

Are we opening up a production line for Bf-109s next?


2 posted on 07/13/2024 9:00:45 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: Red6

Great! Arm them, put them on the front lines so the Russians can kill them. The Russians have had much experience in killing Nazis.


3 posted on 07/13/2024 9:05:05 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Red6

Bookmark!


4 posted on 07/13/2024 9:06:08 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Red6

I hope they all die, on both sides. Give them all the weapons we can spare.


5 posted on 07/13/2024 9:07:53 AM PDT by thefactor
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To: Red6

This is a group, which I believe, a few years before the war, was teetering on being put on the list of terrorist groups by the US. Then, by some miracle intervention of the State Department and CIA, suddenly they weren’t.

Article 2019: https://www.vice.com/en/article/59nqmq/house-democrats-just-demanded-these-neo-nazi-groups-be-prosecuted-as-international-terrorists

2019: https://euromaidanpress.com/2019/11/04/is-the-azov-battalion-a-terrorist-organization-as-40-us-house-democrats-claim/

2019: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukraines-anti-russia-azov-battalion-minutemen-or-neo-nazi-terrorists

Suddenly we can’t remember any of this.

In fact, it’s all just Russian propaganda now.

And the images of Nazi thugs molesting people those are all cleaned up. Cleansed in what is an obvious fact checking exercise by a non-propagandist Google who is in bed with the US IC.


6 posted on 07/13/2024 9:11:00 AM PDT by Red6
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the Azov Brigade?

So now the US is directly funding Nazis?

Great.


7 posted on 07/13/2024 9:14:22 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Red6
The US has lifted its long-standing ban on weapons supplies and training to Ukraine's Azov brigade, whose origins were mired in controversy over alleged links to far-right groups.

 

Bleep you BBC jack wads. Comparing a Nazi group to far-right groups is just another instance of what the enemedia does.

8 posted on 07/13/2024 9:17:02 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Red6

Nazis on Parade!!


9 posted on 07/13/2024 9:46:43 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Red6

When is Nazis and neo-Nazis okay? When the globalist elite can use them to advance their agenda.


10 posted on 07/13/2024 9:47:51 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: thefactor
"Give them all the weapons we can spare."

They can do that just fine without our help. We've already been involved in way too many proxy wars as it is.

11 posted on 07/13/2024 9:49:10 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Red6

Are we going to supply them with Zyklon-B gas too?


12 posted on 07/13/2024 10:17:54 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Red6

Putin didn’t have a problem having Azov go into Georgia


13 posted on 07/13/2024 10:19:09 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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To: Responsibility2nd
I think to understand that you deny Azov's Nazi connection?

A coincidence: https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/xhj8yw/explanation_of_the_azov_emblem/#lightbox

Another coincidence: https://thegrayzone.com/2022/11/15/blowback-italian-azov-tied-nazi-terror/

Another coincidence: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-azov-copied-third-reich-miniature-vladislav-maltsev-eger

Another coincidence: https://x.com/pycpim/status/1497537342965710848/photo/1 (there are hundreds of these... even with Google trying to clean it up)

Another coincidence (Azovs founder): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriy_Biletsky

Another coincidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-E9iRJD-RA (I really like the US BDU’s mixed with the German SS WWII Flecktarn uniforms of the time, true diversity at work! Look at about Minute 46:00 onward, spectacular!!!) Another version of the same coincidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfI1gQIjqRk (much shorter)

Another coincidence Germany's 14 Waffen SS division: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician) ***Look at the crest of this unit and then rewatch some of the videos again and see what a lot of the men have as a pin or patch on their clothes.***

—There comes a point, where you cannot reasonably claim it's all coincidental and not connected.

—There comes a point, where denying the obvious connection becomes absurd.

If you want to arm Nazi's today because they are willing to fight the Russians, fine, but don't deny it.

Most soldiers are going to do what they are ordered to do, if they are told to train card carrying Nazi's. They know the truth. But don't piss on everyone's head and tell them than it's raining: https://www.declassifieduk.org/uk-commanders-in-ukraine-met-neo-nazi-linked-national-guard-to-deepen-military-cooperation/

People know the truth even if our government suddenly claims Nazi's aren't so bad anymore: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-clears-way-ukrainian-military-unit-use-american-weapons-2024-06-11/

14 posted on 07/13/2024 10:19:50 AM PDT by Red6
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Ukraine’s Azov brigade?? Not the best of allies. If the other side starts to win, they will turn on Ukraine and Join the Russians. Like they turned on the Germans in WW II.


15 posted on 07/13/2024 10:26:52 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (In politicians we get what we deserve, usually the best that money can buy, guaranteed.)
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To: Red6
The US has lifted its long-standing ban on weapons supplies and training to Ukraine's Azov brigade, whose origins were mired in controversy over alleged links to far-right groups.

BBC continues with the fascist propaganda that NAZIs were "right wing."

No, "NAZI" means National Socialist Workers Party.

16 posted on 07/13/2024 10:34:06 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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17 posted on 07/13/2024 10:45:50 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: Red6

This happened back in February. AZOV units getting the lions share of what they want and need. As the truth leaks out into the western press, the Brits try to get ahead of the story. Brits have the closest support ties to Uke Nazis.


18 posted on 07/13/2024 10:48:49 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Nope. They are dead men fighting to the bitter end. They have threatened Zelinski away from consideration of negotiating.

Zelinski has to be removed for peace talks, and AZOV wiped out.

Only MI6 will miss them. Maybe the Canadians.


19 posted on 07/13/2024 10:52:11 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: Red6

Democrats and Azov, birds of a feather.


20 posted on 07/13/2024 10:58:15 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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