So there ARE Nazis in Ukraine... But don't listen to Russian propagandists. These are bad guys on our side... 🤪
So there ARE Nazis in Ukraine... But don't listen to Russian propagandists. These are bad guys on our side... 🤪
Germany describes Denis Kapustin as a top neo-Nazi, and his role in the war is a double-edged sword for Kyiv.
How much longer until we hit the "They are all nazis and we knew it from the beginning, that is why we didn't send troops" phase of cope?
39It's a repeat of the US/UK's previous galaxy brained scheme of saving the world from Nazis- first they fund and arm the Nazis in the hopes they'll destroy the Soviets/Russians, and then after the Nazis turn out predictably rabid, they'll pat themselves on the back for helping (or in this case, not helping) to get rid of them while Russia does all the real work. And same as last time, the Anglos will probably funnel all those nasty little Nazis to Argentina or Canada, and to cushy jobs in NATO once again when this is all over, too..
33I mean that'll be one way for the west to distance themselves from Ukraine.
19As another distancing tactic perhaps they’ll start calling the the Ukraine again 😂
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Well fuck instead of denying it, now they're just embracing it.
Hopefully history will remember this.
34Given that the west is about to lose the war, there's gonna be no hiding this going forward.
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"godsend for Russian propagandists" this is such a wierd thing to focus that I don't know how to criticise it properly. Just don't write puff pieces on neo-Nazis if you are concerned about that.
34So there ARE Nazis in Ukraine...
the CIA's Operation Aerodynamic made sure of that
20Okay… wow. Posting to the other one
14“Will you try to remain unbiased?” he asks. “It is a very funny position for you and your colleagues because you all have been trying hard to put us in a bad light for years. Neo-Nazis, racist, white supremacists, terrible guys, blah, blah, blah. And then the darkest hour in Ukraine’s modern day history arrives. And all of a sudden the eternal bad guys turn out to be brave, courageous, determined, stubborn and heroes. And they’re like, ‘damn, how should I write about them?’”
Kapustin thoroughly savors his notoriety. “Throughout my life, I always wanted to be the Hollywood-style bad guy. Darth Vader is my ultimate inspiration. At the age of seven, I watched Star Wars, and was like, ‘wow this guy’s so cool,’” he says.
Literal anime villain monologue.
“We are now definitely a sizable force, possessing our own arms and vehicles, possessing our own mortars, heavy machine guns and artillery. RVC is not anymore a gang. It is a regiment. We have bases. We have our recruitment system,” Kapustin says.
Make sure to vote for Joe Biden guys! I mean sure, he and his ilk have spent their entire careers helping build up Facist/Nazi death machines around the world, but surely, he will stop fascism in America. Right?
13This is the best summary I could come up with:
As a Russian militant who led eye-catching paramilitary raids into Russia from Ukrainian territory this year and last, Kyiv sees Kapustin has a role to play as an ally against President Vladimir Putin.
German authorities say Kapustin — sometimes known as Denis Nikitin — is “one of the most influential neo-Nazi activists” on the European continent, and that’s a godsend to Russian propagandists, who are seeking to whitewash their murderous invasion of Ukraine as an attempt to “de-Nazify” Kyiv.
That’s despite the fact he runs a far-right apparel line of T-shirts and caps emblazoned with white nationalist and xenophobic imagery as well as the Nazi symbol 88 — the eighth letter of the alphabet twice being a not-so-subtle code for “Heil Hitler.”
Including the notorious Rusich militia, which happily displays Nazi flashes, advocates racist ideology and has been accused of battlefield atrocities in Ukraine and Syria, and the white supremacist Russian Imperial Movement, designated a “terrorist organization” by the United States.
In 2022, Germany’s BND intelligence service said the Russian military has welcomed neo-Nazi groups in its ranks, rendering “the alleged reason for the war, the so-called de-Nazification of Ukraine, absurd.”
Kapustin’s RVC and two other Ukraine-based anti-Putin paramilitary groups — Freedom of Russia Legion and the newest formation, the Siberian Battalion — are in the news again after launching on March 12 their biggest cross-border raids of the war around Kursk and Belgorod, remaining on Russian soil and fighting for more than two weeks.
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6Compares himself to Clint Eastwood and Darth Vader, then later admits he can't explain his political views. This is what happens when you don't read books (Harry Potter doesn't count).
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