While they may be useful now, in the event of the decapitation or evacuation of Ukraine’s liberal government from Kyiv, perhaps to Poland or Lviv, or more likely, in the event of Zelenskyy being forced by events to sign a peace deal surrendering Ukrainian territory, groups like Azov may find a golden opportunity to challenge what remains of the state and consolidate their own power bases, even if only locally.
That's the exact sort of destabilizing effect I've had in mind when I talked about the contradictory nature of an alliance between nationalists and the GAE. It could definitely blow up in the GAE's face. Oh no, how sad.
Senior Azov figures have been explicit, over the course of years, in stating that Ukraine has unique potential as a springboard for the “reconquest” of Europe from liberals, homosexuals and immigrants.
America doesn't have anything to do with Ukrainian politics.
This awkwardly close relationship between a liberal-democratic state supported by the West and armed proponents of a very different ideology has caused some discomfort in the past for Ukraine’s Western backers. The US Congress has gone back and forth in recent years on whether Azov should be blocked from receiving American arms shipments, with Democrat lawmakers even urging in 2019 that Azov be listed as a global terrorist organisation.
On that:
On Wednesday, New York Rep. Max Rose, who chairs the counterterrorism subcommittee, submitted a letter to the State Department, co-signed by 39 members of Congress. It urged the department to designate Azov Battalion (a far-right paramilitary regiment in Ukraine), National Action (a neo-Nazi group based in the U.K.), and Nordic Resistance Movement (a neo-Nazi network from Scandinavia) as terrorist organizations.
He called it a battalion repeatedly. Ironically didn't even mention the civilian movement.
James Mason (the Siege/Atomwaffen granpa, he looked just like Goebbels when he was young and in the American Nazi Party editing their newsletter) is a huge fan of Azov.
That's the exact sort of destabilizing effect I've had in mind when I talked about the contradictory nature of an alliance between nationalists and the GAE. It could definitely blow up in the GAE's face. Oh no, how sad.
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America doesn't have anything to do with Ukrainian politics.
On that:
He called it a battalion repeatedly. Ironically didn't even mention the civilian movement.
James Mason (the Siege/Atomwaffen granpa, he looked just like Goebbels when he was young and in the American Nazi Party editing their newsletter) is a huge fan of Azov.
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That's more of the American connection, even if pretty one sided.