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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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
Are we opening up a production line for Bf-109s next?
Great! Arm them, put them on the front lines so the Russians can kill them. The Russians have had much experience in killing Nazis.
Bookmark!
I hope they all die, on both sides. Give them all the weapons we can spare.
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.
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.
the Azov Brigade?
So now the US is directly funding Nazis?
Great.
Bleep you BBC jack wads. Comparing a Nazi group to far-right groups is just another instance of what the enemedia does.
Nazis on Parade!!
When is Nazis and neo-Nazis okay? When the globalist elite can use them to advance their agenda.
They can do that just fine without our help. We've already been involved in way too many proxy wars as it is.
Are we going to supply them with Zyklon-B gas too?
Putin didn’t have a problem having Azov go into Georgia
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/
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.
BBC continues with the fascist propaganda that NAZIs were "right wing."
No, "NAZI" means National Socialist Workers Party.
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.
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.
Democrats and Azov, birds of a feather.
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