It obviously is.
I admited it, very obviously, by posting this link and just telling you it's an example of what you should have used instead of your use of a compromised dictionary.
I so clearly told you I "found it, for you, as an example".
Which was many years ago.
You say paramilitary and in the same breath you equate this with military.
Azov was a special / auxiliary police unit in an "anti-terrorist operation".
(Which is unlike how Putin now sends in the OMON riot cops and the SOBR police commandos into Ukraine in what he himself termed the "special military operation".)
Do you actually want to be informed? Ask any honest questions, if you want, and I'll answer you if I can. If you're not interested, I'm not wasting my time anymore.
They're not a neo-Nazi unit anymore.
You talked about "bombing". And they officially didn't "commit military action", as they were never military.
In September actually. (The second time you said November, which first I just ignored but now you repeated it while so sure of yourself. Maybe you should just stop arguing about something you don't know. And listen to me while I'm informing you.)
And I see you're just so autistic you still can't see I did.
And yet I did exactly that, while you just ignored my link entirely (not even when I noted it's a better source saying just that, and how I found it for you to use instead, as an example) and began ranting.
I just told you to use better sources, like the one I did find for you as an example. And which you just ignored and didn't even check, judging on your second paragraph.
Maybe it was her warning for the Asian students.
Anyway, did anyone see this TV series about how white people are literally demons or something? I don't even remember the title, maybe it was like "Them" but I'm not sure.
But a funny thing is how our media, and the state media in particular, are way more anti-Russian than me. The TV won't even say "Russians" normally all the time but will go like "Russian bandits" and like. Full war mode, almost as in Russia.
A sample title of the state television news, "The Russians Are Bandits": https://wiadomosci.tvp.pl/58915166/putin-to-morderca-rosjanie-to-bandyci
It's the level of based department that is a bit extreme for even me. But it's normal here.
What "war", comrade? It's just a training exercise special military operation, don't forget it.
Perhaps the Z on their vehicles was no coincidence.
In fact and seriously, I don't even discount them going actually ABC now in the hope to win this decisively and in a single stroke, Putin has nothing to lose anymore after entrapping himself, and everything to win because otherwise it might be the end of him. They already work on preparing this with propaganda that is supposed to work internally, but works wonders enough even on "right wingers" in America too.
The West also don't do the MAD doctrine at all anymore, their response to nuclear threats is always just one-sided attempts to deescalate the situation, and never threaten even back. Such displays of weakness is not what what did work out in the Cold War, also in successfully avoiding nuclear war.
What did you except, to be loyal to the invader right away?
Collaboration may be a problem during the occupation, as it is always.
I expected them to defeat Ukraine in 36-48 hours.
I still try to not underestimate them, but anyway it brings a great joy to my good old Polish heart when they're bleeding in the snow and burning in the mud.
A wholesome meme highly related: https://twitter.com/KampfmitKette/status/1499305605781200900
Anyway they didn't quite go the Grozny Mode (https://youtube.com/watch?v=TlkCNzu-VkM) yet, but in Kharkiv and Mariupol they're going there. When they do, they'll just level the places, and Grozny was a little town compared to Kharkiv.
Never forget what they took from you
And going back to the original Salon article, the subject of this thread:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FN0DtXiXIAUGauL?format=jpg&name=900x900
No, they're not "big trouble", they're as irrelevant in the big picture as they're colorful. This is an example of the Western hysteria I just mentioned too.
You too are a histrionic Westerner, obviously.
To repeat to you, once you calmed down hopefully:
The guys in the unit today are actually pretty apolitical and very professional. Now, those in the vast Azov civilian movement are very political but they also lost the actual popular support (even in a coalition with other radicals they lost all the seats in the parliament) while the nation elected an openly Jewish president, so I don't see them too as a problem, they're just a colorful margin of the society (sort of like the Italian Neo-Fascists nowadays). Contrary to the Russian propaganda (and also the Western hysteria).
I was talking about Ukrainian nation (writing "the nation"), not any "a Nationalist Socialist". You really have serious problems with comprehension and then just begin ranting once triggered.
More in the thread:
Games journalism has been going down the tubes for years, but JFC. Middle-schoolers could research and write a better piece with 15 minutes of library computer time.
I rarely consider suing these sham journalists, but claims that I work with the Russians have me thinking hard.
DO IT
Jesus Chris, how I want this to happen.
Many guys get their own gear after being literally crowdfunded. It was especially so at the start of the war, and not just in volunteer formations. (Those delivering the packages to the front were also known as volunteers in English, but the Ukrainian words are different.) Today just like many others around the world (including various Islamists) they for example love to fit themselves with the prized Pulsar thermal sights that you can buy in America for hunting and are just total game changers for night combat and sniping purposes.
The guys in the unit today are actually pretty apolitical and very professional. Now, those in the vast Azov civilian movement are very political but they also lost the actual popular support (even in a coalition with other radicals they lost all the seats in the parliament) while the nation elected an openly Jewish president, so I don't see them too as a problem, they're just a colorful margin of the society (sort of like the Italian Neo-Fascists nowadays). Contrary to the Russian propaganda (and also the Western hysteria).
In case of you really didn't notice, I was talking about this section of your second paragraph, which I'll even quote now:
That is, unless you can show and tell how this unit that has been involved in bombing the Donbass region for years
Can't "show and tell" about something that just never happened.
They weren't "bombing" (nor bombarding) anything at all.
Unless the use of tanks and mortars at the Shirokino (an abandoned sea resort turned a fortified battlefield) frontline counts. Which I mentioned.
If you just stopped rambling like a retard and tried to read, maybe you could notice what I actually talked about to you.
While I wasn't talking about anything I wasn't talking about. Maybe it's actually hard to you to comprehend.
What "points"? This?
you can show and tell how this unit that has been involved in bombing the Donbass region for years
No one can't "tell and show" something imaginary that didn't happen.
Not even if "bombing" was meant to mean "bombarding".
merriam-webster
Still an authority to you even after they retroactively redefine words in real time?
Found you a better source: https://books.google.com/books?id=b8FByTMHI6UC&pg=PA234
Israel historically was the only country to support Rhodesia and the Apartheid era South Africa (including a nuclear weapons program in the latter case), or the actual Right Wing Death Squads in Lebanon. It's nothing new or surprising they at least wouldn't care about it politically, it's only consistent to their character.
Anyway, the Azov guys have NATO weapons (and actually NATO, not Made in Ukraine) aplenty, too. It's not a big deal despite any hysterical TIME or The New York Times articles about it. "Even" the Azov movement connected informal paramilitaries like the Freikorps are seen having the Javelins or whatever. If they're putting them to good use in overkilling Russian paratroopers in their silly aluminium BMDs and the Chechens in the Tigrs, no one cares about American lefties having a fit.
And to repeat my point, use written sources like that instead of online dictionaries (or Wikipedia for that matter).