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Fuck Ukrainian Azov Nazis and fuck anyone who defends them (www.thenation.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here's how Ukraine was being reported by the West before the war.

Today, increasing reports of far-right violence, ultranationalism, and erosion of basic freedoms are giving the lie to the West’s initial euphoria. There are neo-Nazi pogroms against the Roma, rampant attacks on feminists and LGBT groups, book bans, and state-sponsored glorification of Nazi collaborators.

These stories of Ukraine’s dark nationalism aren’t coming out of Moscow; they’re being filed by Western media, including US-funded Radio Free Europe (RFE); Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress and the Simon Wiesenthal Center; and watchdogs like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Freedom House, which issued a joint report warning that Kiev is losing the monopoly on the use of force in the country as far-right gangs operate with impunity.

Five years after Maidan, the beacon of democracy is looking more like a torchlight march. A neo-Nazi battalion in the heart of Europe

If you whitewash NAZI POGROMS just because you want to beat Russia, fuck you. Siding with far-right fascists to defeat far-right fascists doesn't make you the good guy. There is no lesser of two evils here.

If you dismiss any criticism of Ukraine as Russian propaganda, you might want to ask why the rest of the world, including the West, was concerned about Nazism in the area and then suddenly changed their tune only after the war started.

We should be getting both sides into peace negotiations, not prolonging the bloodshed and providing Nazis with illegal cluster bombs

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is that really a thing? I didn't think Americans thought of Orthodox Christians as Christian?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

You forgot the most important part of American Christianity, which is that Putin (and United Russia in general) is massively homophobic, which means that chuds are able to look past all the differences in theology if it allows them to be the swine they long to be.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think they’re close enough. American Christians have enlisted the aid of Jewish settlers in Isn’treal, so it would probably be even easier to ally themselves with Orthodoxy.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbf that was probably due to evangelical zionism

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Yeah, all Jewish people going to Israel is part of their end of the world prophecy. They just want all Jewish people to return to Israel to kick off the rapture so they can go to heaven and everyone goes to hell.

But aligning with Putin because he's illiberal and homophobic makes sense. Plus Evangelical Fascists often don't know or sometimes don't even have any theology.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

isn't that more because 1. armageddon prophecy and 2. they want to deport Jewish people to Israel?