This is nuts
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 9:52 pm
So, I don't know if anyone here is interested in what's been going on in Ukraine recently, but part of the story is that the United States helped engineer a coup about a year ago to overthrow its democratically elected leader, and ever since (and probably long before) it's been openly coordinating with, advocating for, and providing financial and material support for certain fascist and far-right elements integrated there, elements which are currently carrying out an ethnic cleansing campaign against Russians still loyal to Yanukovych. This is presumably so the Obama administration can use the land on which they live to place nuclear missiles right next door to Russia as part of a long-term plan to control and subdue it.
So far, pretty standard. What I think is fairly shocking, though, is that one of the far-right battalions is the Azov Battalion, an explicitly and openly Nazi-friendly group which does such things as call for a white crusade against Jews, express admiration for Hitler, and sport Nazi insignias on their uniforms and flags. And the United States has apparently announced it's going to send troops later this month to train them.
http://www.alternet.org/world/hitlers-b ... onal-guard
And, as the article said, the training will begin on April 20.
America is going to start training groups which they know include high-ranking neo-Nazis, and they've purposely chosen to start on April 20.
This is completely fucked. So not only has a European government (sponsored and backed by the United States) dispatched Nazi battalions to attack a European population - which has not happened since World War II - and not only is the United States government now openly training forces which include these battalions, they're choosing to start on a day which I can only assume was chosen for the purpose of conscious trolling.
Nothing else could really signal the "I don't give a fuck" attitude quite like this. They know perfectly well what they're doing; there's simply no chance at all that they don't. And they're essentially broadcasting it, that they know what they're doing, and that they don't think there's any chance at all that they're going to be stopped.
I wouldn't be able to make this up if I tried.
So far, pretty standard. What I think is fairly shocking, though, is that one of the far-right battalions is the Azov Battalion, an explicitly and openly Nazi-friendly group which does such things as call for a white crusade against Jews, express admiration for Hitler, and sport Nazi insignias on their uniforms and flags. And the United States has apparently announced it's going to send troops later this month to train them.
http://www.alternet.org/world/hitlers-b ... onal-guard
And, as the article said, the training will begin on April 20.
America is going to start training groups which they know include high-ranking neo-Nazis, and they've purposely chosen to start on April 20.
This is completely fucked. So not only has a European government (sponsored and backed by the United States) dispatched Nazi battalions to attack a European population - which has not happened since World War II - and not only is the United States government now openly training forces which include these battalions, they're choosing to start on a day which I can only assume was chosen for the purpose of conscious trolling.
Nothing else could really signal the "I don't give a fuck" attitude quite like this. They know perfectly well what they're doing; there's simply no chance at all that they don't. And they're essentially broadcasting it, that they know what they're doing, and that they don't think there's any chance at all that they're going to be stopped.
I wouldn't be able to make this up if I tried.