Yes, like just also linked you that (Russian) regime foreign propaganda article (from RBTH, which I'm actually reading just like VOA and RFE/RL) about how in Russia the women soldiers won't fight. Now read it.
No, they don't. To cite some Russian external propaganda (for foreigners willing to become Russian soldiers),
Gender
The Russian Armed Forces welcomes both men and women. Yet, no woman will be running on a battlefield with an AK-12 in her hands. Every woman who's willing to become a soldier is welcome, but only for work assigned to military headquarters or as a nurse.
https://www.rbth.com/science-and-tech/331042-how-to-join-russian-army
Russians also dont send women to the conflicts abroad, like in Syria or Ukraine.
The whole concept of women soldiers as normal (and not unique instances, or absolute desperation) is inherently feminist.
You are a literal militant feminist.
You surely are aware how Russia is only sending men to die in Ukraine?
Or how the Women's Day is a national holiday in Russia, while men only get the Defender Day, because it's their function.
Iran's Afghanistan options (July 2021): https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/iran-sets-its-eyes-afghanistan
No, it was after Armenia had already lost (despite weapons shipments from Iran). Iran includes an Azeri-populated territory and they have a long running spat over it. Also over how Azerbaijan rejects Iranian leadership over the Shia of the world, just like Iraq does increasingly now (especially Sadr, who ironically had sheltered in Iran after the 2006 defeat of the Mahdi Army uprising).
Just like the ~UKRAINIAN BIOLABS~ worked on that virus carried by birds that would only selectively exterminate all the ethnic Russians on Earth, the Lithuanian Feminist Armed Empire (FAE) will use their nuclear power to #KillAllMen.
Right Sector had limited its ambitions to just "build a nationalist Ukrainian state and stage a nationalist revolution."
About Azov and their rivals and also liberals (and Antifa), let me quote the Soros Times (https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/rise-of-azov/), from 2016:
One such proponent is Vita Zaverukha, a neo-Nazi who served in the Aidar volunteer battalion. Zaverukha is now in pre-trial detention accused of robbing a petrol station and killing two police officers. She is one of the “patriots, persecuted by Poroshenko’s Jewish regime” that are mourned by the ultra-right.
For the average Ukrainian citizen, the news that Russian ultranationalists were forcibly breaking up protest rallies in Kyiv sounded unbelievable. Many people initially took it for a propaganda hoax. But soon, new (and no less strange) facts came to light for Ukraine’s patriotic public, who are used to supporting Azov and rejecting any criticism aimed at it.
On 25 January, a report of “a raid to uncover illegal migrants” in a town in the Kyiv region appeared on Azov’s website. Neo-Nazi “activists”, together with local police (whose regional chief is a former Azov commander), broke into flats in the town of Bila Tserkva. The aim? To check the documents of African men. The whole episode was recorded on video, and uploaded to the internet.
A few days later, Azov published an article decrying “Islamist expansion” in L’viv. Its author objected to Crimean Tatars, who had fled their homeland after Russian annexation, moving to Lviv and engaging in “propaganda for their religious beliefs”. The article saw their request for a mosque as an intolerable “trial of their fellow-citizens’ patience”.
It must be said that, until recently, Azov has been extremely careful to project a “respectable” image.
This incident aroused such a scandal (unlike the racist note of “illegal migrants”) that the article was removed from the Azov site. After Crimea, Ukraine’s liberal-patriotic public, which already felt sympathetic towards the Crimean Tatars, has begun to show public approval and respect for this people’s history and culture.
Indeed, the “Islamist expansion” article, while typical of far-right thinking, seemed so improbable to liberal journalists that they had to phone Azov’s press office to check whether it was a mistake. (The press officer confirmed: “we stand for Crimea being Ukrainian, not Tatar”.)
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Part of the reason for this change of tack could be the more stable situation on the eastern Ukrainian front, which has allowed Azov to switch their attention to a war on “internal enemies”. But the main reason has to be the long term political strategy of Azov’s leadership. All the incidents mentioned above are formally linked not to the Azov National Guard Regiment but to a different structure, the Azov Civil Corps, a proto-party that will obviously form the political wing of the movement.
This is not the first attempt by an ultra right group to enter politics: Right Sector tried before, but won so few votes that they tried to organise an armed coup instead (also without success). In the autumn of 2014, Azov was only able to win a parliamentary seat for its leader Biletsky thanks to an armed break-in at a polling station during the count and the coercion of electoral committee members to produce an “honest result”.
But now, according to a number of recent statements, Azov’s leaders are determined to extend their representation in Ukraine’s parliament. To succeed via either the bullet or the ballot box, Azov needs to gain the loyalty of the majority of far right constituency, which are now roughly split into two camps. While Azov and the groups who share its views are linked to Avakov (hence their guarded attitude to any pronouncements against, or simply unfavourable to, the current government), the other bloc consists of Right Sector and the smaller groups aligned with it.
Both camps, battling for power over the Ukrainian ultra right, present themselves as genuine nationalists, true to their ideals, and accuse their rivals of colluding with the “Jew-ridden government”. And the recent behaviour of Azov has to be seen in the context of this intensified rivalry for the loyalty of a narrow right-wing subculture.
These are the people who last December staged a torchlight procession in Mariupol around an ugly monument to the medieval Kievan Prince Svyatoslav, erected illegally where a statue of Lenin used to stand. For most people, Svyatoslav is a barely remembered figure out of school history textbooks. But Ukrainian neo-Nazis mythologise Svyatoslav as the Nordic pagan who overthrew the Judaic Khazar Empire in the 10th century.
This rivalry is also why Azov needed to assert its uncompromising position towards anti-fascists on 19 January. And it explains Azov’s return to xenophobic rhetoric and activity, designed to consolidate the far right around it, even at the price of some support among the “civilian” public.
For the same reason, Azov is now flirting with a youth subculture that is predominantly apolitical (musicians, environmental and animal rights activists, bohemian types), but which is quite swiftly moving to the right. Hence, for example, the news that Azov is planning to physically punish so-called “doghunters”, sadists who get their kicks from poisoning or otherwise cruelly killing stray dogs.
This is a typical ultra right pastime: Russian and Ukrainian neo-Nazis used to organise similar “paedophile hunts”, where they would use social media to set up a meeting between a man and a supposed underage girl and then humiliate their victim on video. The new anti-doghunter campaign, used at the right place and the right time, can get results: many apolitical and left-liberal activists involved in the animal rights movement have welcomed Azov’s initiative.
The battle for the attention of Green activists heated up at a Climate Change march in November, when Azov members unfurled their banners emblazoned with the stylised Wolfsangel symbol, but demanded that the anarchists roll up their green and black flags; the anarchists left the main march and held their own separate rally as a result.
Azov has also become a promoter of mass cultural events (concerts, sporting competitions etc.), while at the same time trying to ruin similar initiatives conducted by their rivals. On 16 January, for example, just a few days before the planned memorial rally in Kyiv, Azov members invaded a “free market” organised by the Direct Action student union (whom Biletsky falsely accused on television of fighting on the separatists’ side). In the process, they injured three left-wing activists and a passer-by whom they also took for a left winger.
The final factor in the rise of Azov is the political infighting over the government led by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. In the unending struggle for power between Yatsenyuk’s team and that of President Petro Poroshenko, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov is largely on the PM’s side.
Avakov recently got into a public spat with Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia who is now governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region and a close ally of Poroshenko. With uncertainty around the government’s future and accompanying reshuffles, Avakov holds a trump card: a regiment of ultra right fighters.
It is quite possible that the recent rise in Azov’s profile is linked to Avakov’s desire to persuade the president that he alone is capable of keeping Biletsky and his adherents under control, and that the fall of the Yatsenyuk government could have unforeseen consequences. But is that really the case? The opposite is more likely to be true: the presence of patron in the cabinet is the main factor that has given Azov its privileged position within the far right.
Without its government protector, it would be much more difficult for the National Guard regiment to increase its political capital. But the chances are that it won’t come to that: the most recent news is that at talks between Yatsenyuk and Poroshenko, it was decided to leave Avakov in his post as interior minister. The blackmail worked, apparently.
What does all this mean in practice? One thing is certain: the further rise of neo-Nazi street violence. Here, left and liberal activists will be essentially incidental victims of the struggle for power within the far right.
Will this struggle for “internal” power lead to a worse “external” image for the Ukrainian ultra right? Experience tells us that rational argument and even clear factual evidence have little effect on the consciousness of the Ukrainian liberal-patriotic intelligentsia, blinkered by their emotional response to Azov, the “defenders of Mariupol” who can therefore do no evil.
Given this state of affairs, the evident surprise and annoyance on the liberal intelligentsia’s part at the neo-Nazis’ recent actions may be considered a major step forward. Unfortunately, however, the main factor in the liberals’ criticism of Azov is the lack of a thought-out political agenda behind its actions and statements, rather than the actions in themselves.
A journalist on a popular TV channel who was obviously confused by Azov’s motives and supported the anti-fascists’ position, asked Biletsky whether he could hold off any street attacks at least until after the Dutch referendum on an EU Association Agreement with Ukraine (due to take place on 6 April) to avoid further damage to the country’s image.
As well as the liberals’ shame before civilised Europe, another important factor is the opinions expressed by the public in various polls: despite Poroshenko’s falling popularity ratings, most Ukrainians are tired of war and not convinced that their country needs the “real fascist junta” that the far right dreams about.
However, the further Ukraine’s government pushes austerity policies and neoliberal reforms, the more likely we are to see a growth in support for a hypothetical “strong arm” — one that would end corruption and defend the privileges of ethnic Ukrainians.
Your journey to a full blown commie will be finally complete.
Kennedy refused to use the regular military to back the CIA in deposing Castro by force. It's ironic he was shot by a defector to the Soviet Union.
They took it several weeks after Kabul but there's an insurgency and now it's the fighting season. Recently they lost a Blackhawk shot down for example.
Iran's concentrating their tank forces on the border. But yeah, previously also did so with Azerbaijan and nothing came out of it.
Azov don't care about Jews, perhaps to the disappointment of James Mason (the Siege guy) who's their big groupie. They (back in the day as the Social-National Assembly) did publicly proclaim their plan to use Ukraine as a launchpad for "a crusade to liberate Europe from Muslims and homosexuals" tho.
Right Sector isn't even against (loyal) Muslims, they have their own Chechen and Tatar units.
No you're an Arab lmao
JK (Rowling), you're honorary.
The Taliban in Pakistan now use advanced American weapons and gear (gifted by the Afghan Taliban) to fight against Pakistani state that had created the Taliban. It's a circle of death!
Also, Iran is going to invade Af. Even the Hazara (Shia) Taliban just rebelled to join the Panjshir Tajiks (Iranian people) already in rebellion.
Do you use plural "they" about Imp? Surely don't you think he's a girl irl?
Will you say so about China too? North Korea? Do you do believe so about AQ and Islamic State?
Also, why do you guys insist on your idiotically made up fake acronym that you and only you alone use? Why not something even remotely real, like NWO, if not just USA?
Russian internal propaganda does use "USA" to identify their enemy, США in Cyrrylic. (And "England" for the UK, the other top global adversary, actually hated much more than America and since the 19th-century Great Game and then the absolute obsession of the early Soviet era when most of the show trials were about the supposed "English spies", even Beria was declared one after they killed him in turn.) Never anything like "GAE", as you do.
Happy 4th July, wannabe traitors.
Solution: make Lithuania a nuclear power too.
Lithuania responds to Russia violating its treaty obligations to protect Ukraine in exchange for nuclear weapons.
Germany lost control of "Kaliningrad" in 1945, when Kalinin was not yet in hell.
This article really sounds like a parody of their bullshit. "Sandy Beaches" style.
Jewish Neurosis: a thread.
Also just found she/they literally wrote a book about Jewish werewolves.
It looks like the no man's land in WWI.
That's a pretty good K/D tbh
Paris 2015 (attack by Islamic State).
the only apparent reason to prevent Ukraine trying to sue for peace is
Ukrainian nationalism.
Zelensky was suspected being a secret Russian puppet by them, they won't take it easy if he really becomes one (in their eyes). There won't be a peace, just a civil war, and way worse than the one in Ireland (that was already worse then the Irish war of independence that preceded it). Or the complete chaos like in Chechnya 1996-1999 (radicals making trouble after a peace treaty again), before the Russian tanks came back. It's not Georgia 2008, it's more like Georgia in the early 1990s.
No one was "joining the USSR" after 1945 (Königsberg). It was the Warsaw Pact of countries bordering each other with Soviet garrisons in each of them (so Soviet tanks could keep governments in check and drive in to bring them down if some wanted to leave, as in Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, and allegedly almost Poland 1981).
Then there were "the sattelites", who could adjoin the Soviet state (like Afghanistan) or not (like Cuba). Many socialist countries were just simply "fraternal" allies without being subjegated puppet states like Afghanistan would become. Some countries fucked off from the Moscow orbit, like Yugoslavia or Somalia, and sooner or later and more or less aligned with America instead while proclaiming the Third World officially.
When did he say so? The biggest thing about the Ukrainian female soldiers was how they were made them march in high heels on a parade, and the Western media were outraged about it (yet not about how the American male soldiers were made to march in high heels few years earlier). That and some photoshoots, just as with the photoshoots of the separ poster girls on the other side of the conflict (and the separ draft of #YesAllMen came first). It was never a feminist army Western style, with lots of female combat soldiers and female high ranking officers (and trannies).
Also just stop being such a feminist.