Leftists see Nazis, Nazis everywhere. Everyone who opposes the Left’s agenda is a Nazi. Anyone who stands for freedom and human rights against their jihadi allies is a Nazi. If someone, even an agent provocateur, carries a Nazi flag into a demonstration, then automatically everyone there is a Nazi, and the cause itself is a Nazi one. We saw this recently with the Freedom Convoy in Canada, where someone, likely a government or Leftist plant, carried a Nazi flag around, and even though the real protestors told him to leave and made sure he did so, Justin Trudeau and his henchmen immediately began to claim that the entire Freedom Convoy was a Nazi enterprise that must be disavowed by all decent people.
But when there are actual Nazis involved with a cause the Left supports, then suddenly Leftists decide that the presence of Nazis is no big deal. With the Left (and Right) both all-in on supporting Ukraine, suddenly those Nazi elements in Ukraine need to be downplayed and explained away. Medea Benjamin to the rescue.
“Are there really neo-Nazis fighting for Ukraine? Well, yes — but it’s a long story,” by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, Salon, March 10, 2022:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that he ordered the invasion of Ukraine to “denazify” its government, while Western officials, such as former U.S. ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul, have called this pure propaganda, insisting, “There are no Nazis in Ukraine.”
In the context of the Russian invasion, the post-2014 Ukrainian government’s problematic relations with extreme right-wing groups and neo-Nazi parties has become an incendiary element on both sides of the propaganda war, with Russia exaggerating it as a pretext for war and the West trying to sweep it under the carpet.
The reality behind the propaganda is that the West and its Ukrainian allies have opportunistically exploited and empowered the extreme right in Ukraine, first to pull off the 2014 coup and then by redirecting it to fight separatists in eastern Ukraine. And far from “denazifying” Ukraine, the Russian invasion is likely to further empower Ukrainian and international neo-Nazis, as it attracts fighters from around the world and provides them with weapons, military training and the combat experience that many of them are hungry for.
Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Svoboda Party and its founders, Oleh Tyahnybok and Andriy Parubiy, played leading roles in the U.S-backed coup in February 2014. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.S. ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt mentioned Tyahnybok as one of the leaders they were working with in their infamous leaked phone call before the coup, even as they tried to exclude him from an official position in the post-coup government….
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