I can empathize with naïve people cheering Ukraine as a state, but this is properly disturbing.
Azov Battalion is openly neo-nazi. Their Wikipedia page still mentions it in the first paragraph as the very first adjective. They use neo-nazi symbolism. Mainstream US liberal media mention their neo-nazism, or at least ‘concerns’ about them being neo-nazis. Even a Google (eww) search gave that information quite readily.
A lot of people there seem to be Ukrainian diaspora. If they are kids from people who fled Ukraine in the last few decades, their parents’ (and their own) beliefs are questionable at least. It is no surprise they are the type of people to defend Azov.
You expect them to actually make an effort of reading a Wikipedia paragraph? For a significant chunk of people their knowledge is limited to “These guys are fighting Putin’s orcs” and that’s it. That’s all they want to know.
I can empathize with naïve people cheering Ukraine as a state, but this is properly disturbing.
Azov Battalion is openly neo-nazi. Their Wikipedia page still mentions it in the first paragraph as the very first adjective. They use neo-nazi symbolism. Mainstream US liberal media mention their neo-nazism, or at least ‘concerns’ about them being neo-nazis. Even a Google (eww) search gave that information quite readily.
Is this really who they want to martyr?
A lot of people there seem to be Ukrainian diaspora. If they are kids from people who fled Ukraine in the last few decades, their parents’ (and their own) beliefs are questionable at least. It is no surprise they are the type of people to defend Azov.
They quite simply do not understand. They’re completely brainwashed and hardwired to think that the idea that Nazis exist in Ukraine at all is a lie.
You expect them to actually make an effort of reading a Wikipedia paragraph? For a significant chunk of people their knowledge is limited to “These guys are fighting Putin’s orcs” and that’s it. That’s all they want to know.
Umm sweaty, don’t you know Wikipedia and all the western MSM they cite are Russian propaganda? Stop regurgitating Putin’s talking points mmkay?