There was a reddit post about how Leonardo DiCaprio donated $10 million to Ukraine. I made a short, lazy comment about how celebrities were now funding neo-nazis. I don’t imagine it was well-received but I haven’t checked.

What a mess.

Edit: I got permanently banned from the sub.

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It’s genuinely surprising to me that it seems Ukraine doesn’t have a section on patches in their uniform code. This is a standard thing for western militaries, so why didn’t Ukraine do it too?

White Nationalism and the neo-nazi Far-Right political movement are both becoming a growing problem in Ukraine. However, remember the problem didn’t even exist before 2014, as a matter of fact, the reason they were able to form was because of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and then Russia’s continued aggression in Eastern Ukraine. The fact is most of us in Ukraine aren’t really fighters (kinda like in every normal country) and somebody needed to fight the russian-backed seperatists and as we know this war has largely been undocumented by the media for the last 8 years until now. And in those last 8 years a lot of Nazi groups from around the world traveled to Ukraine to help fight, they do not care about Ukraine at all, they just care about fighting and bloodshed, these external groups literally came to practice. Unfortunately, when it comes down to it, these groups are protecting innocent Ukrainian civilians and the country. As a result, we thanked them, but we do not support them politically. We support them protecting us from dying. Now Puting has completely invaded, Azov got less than a 2% of a vote from Ukrainian population before, I really fear that because of this invasion they will actually become more powerful of a group as they are doing a lot of the fighting right now. A lot of the soldiers in Ukraine who are not part of Azov are also fighting, as they have been conscripted, unfortunately…but its important to know they are innocent people who are only guilty of being a male between the age of 18 to 60. A lot of them actually get trained by Azov, you see as I mentioned before these boys and men have no experience fighting. Azov volunteered to help train them, many may be wearing these symbols on their uniforms because they are fighting for Ukraine with the training of Azov. This does not always mean that they are a part of Azov. As a matter of fact most soldiers did not support Azov before they were conscripted, now they depend on this training to not die and to protect their country. It is worrying that Russia’s aggression may in the end cause Azov to get a lot more power. But for now it is silly to think that every soldier in that uniform is an Azov official member.