• Dem Bosain
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    194 months ago

    They’re not wrong. Azov have been far-right extremists since the beginning. But imagine if a foreign country invaded the US and gained a sizable stronghole. We’d be arming right-wing militias to repel the invaders too.

    They’re a help now, but Azov will be a problem in the future.

  • @[email protected]
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    74 months ago

    Okay, and?

    Russia is the pressing threat. Throw Russia out first, and retake Crimea. Then deal with Azov fanatics. That’s what triage is; you deal with the big thing first, and then the smaller things. You don’t treat an amputated finger while someone is gushing blood from a severed carotid.

    • @[email protected]
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      04 months ago

      retake Crimea

      Never going to happen.

      Then deal with Azov fanatics

      Also never going to happen.

      Western liberals ability to learn absolutely nothing from 9/11 is impressive.

      • taanegl
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        -44 months ago

        Never going to happen.

        Defeatist.

        Also never going to happen.

        Also defeatist.

        This is the point in time where I ask how Putin’s boot tastes like. Palestine kept fighting for over 80 years and your view of Ukrainian resolve speaks volumes. Sure, Azov might be the Ukrainian equivalent to Hamas, but last I checked invasion tends to breed extremist groups and those extremist groups tend to be a pain in the invaders ass. Word to IS and Al Quaida, who still haven’t been defeated by US imperialists. Will it take some time for them to get curbed after all is said and done? Yes, just look at the IRA. Needless to say, you’ve got plenty of other historical precedent to contend with.

        • @[email protected]
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          24 months ago

          Defeatist

          Wishful thinking trumped reality exactly never.

          Also defeatist

          NATO and Ukraine are never even going to try to deal with Azov, are you going to be going over there to deal with them yourself?

          This is the point in time where I ask how Putin’s boot tastes like.

          Of course it is. Because all you have is rote memorised thought terminating cliches.

          Palestine kept fighting for over 80 years

          Yeah, and even they aren’t trying for complete control of all of current Isreal, which would be equivalent to your expectation of taking all of Crimea.

          your view of Ukrainian resolve speaks volumes

          Insert wanking hand gesture here

          Sure, Azov might be the Ukrainian equivalent to Hamas

          They aren’t; Hamas aren’t neo Nazis.

          those extremist groups tend to be a pain in the invaders ass.

          Azov hasn’t been a pain in Russia’s ass; I don’t know why Westerners are so eager to attribute Ukraine’s success to them and not the regular Ukrainian military. I actually, I do know; Western liberals see Nazis as hyper capable.

          What Azov has been is an enormous boon to Russian propaganda.

          Word to IS and Al Quaida, who still haven’t been defeated by US imperialists. Will it take some time for them to get curbed after all is said and done? Yes, just look at the IRA.

          Did you really write these two sentences one right after the other without realising the irony?

  • @[email protected]
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    24 months ago

    This play ruzzian propaganda so well. Just keep adding stories about nazis i ukraine and at the end, noone will be certain about whats true or not. Still, ofc there are nazis in ukraine, but that is true about all countries.

    • Ooops
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      114 months ago

      Sadly I’m still pretty sure the most damage here has been done by Ukraine itself:

      Yes, of course there are some nazis in Ukraine. Sadly every country seem to have some fringe right-wing morons. And using them to fight Russia, especially in a time when the offcial army wasn’t up to the task yet, was understandable.

      But that’s not the main problem. The main problem is doubt that Ukraine will be able to handle them at some point when it’s necessary. And when -to paraphrase Ukraine’s then ambassador to Germany for example in 2015- the answer to the question if they realize that this can become a problem down the road is: “No, you are lying to help Russian propaganda! There are and never in history were any right-wing groups in Ukraine!” that’s a pretty big indicator that they won’t manage that problem ever. Because acknowledging it exists would have been the required first step instead of spewing insane rants.

      • @[email protected]
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        -24 months ago

        They were a movement that was an active militia (trained and armed) that took part in the elections and did not even get enough votes for a single seat in Parlaiment.

  • @[email protected]
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    14 months ago

    I’m not really sure what they’re trying to raise as a specific issue here.

    Azov are a part of the Ukrainian military. That’s Ukraine’s decision. If we give arms to Ukraine there’s a good chance some of those arms will end up in the hands of Azov members.

    There’s not really any way to avoid that. We need to put diplomatic pressure on Ukraine to deal with the problem of far right extremists in their country (and, y’know, it would probably help if we were leading the way by doing more to deal with far right extremists in our own country), but abandoning them to the Russians just because they’re not perfect paragons of progressive idealism isn’t helping anything.