Posted on 03/15/2022 5:10:44 AM PDT by McGruff
“DUDE - I’m in Ukraine!!! See for yourself! Next week off to fight that EVIL PUTIN!!!”
...and with the metadata from that picture, and the posting in English (or some other non-local language), the coordinates for Russia’s cruise missiles were now set.
“Recruiting chats on the encrypted Telegram messaging app are run by the Azov Regiment, popular with neo-Nazis and white supremacists, and American neo-Nazis work to recruit for Azov, the respected SITE Intelligence Group says. Azov Regiment originated as a far-right paramilitary unit and is now a subset of the Ukrainian military, according to SITE.”
Didn’t the media pretty much tell us that Azov doesn’t exist and was a ‘conspiracy theory’ being propagated by those opposing intervention? I guess the NY Times found a reason to state the truth here.
They thought it would be a dramatic adventure like their peers on social media and Follywood made it out to be.
I have a hard time with the depth of total ignorance of doing something like this.
“Recruits say they are often waiting for weapons and training, leaving them feeling exposed.”
Too much Call of Duty...
Seriously, they must be somewhat mentally ill.
I think many were lured by all the propaganda. It made it look like Russia was on its way out anyway. I wonder if they can say, “oops, I need to go home now”?
I feel kind of sad for the young because they never will know what truth is.
Food is scarce, no electricity, no water...
I wouldn’t be surprised if they leave. (if allowed)
The propaganda has been crazy from both sides.
Really three sides if you count NATO as its own side.
It is in the wording
Azovs aren’t just “popular” with neo-Nazis, they ARE neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
By calling them “far right”, the NYT probably felt that made it reportable.
” they are psychopaths wanting permission to shoot at people.”
They should have applied to the Capitol Police.
Yeah
It is so wrong to fight for freedom
Bring back the British empire /s
Educate yourself on the most corrupt nation on the planet and what they did to the Russian speaking peasants in the Donbas.
Exactly, adrenaline junkies with not much going on at home.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MogTheUrbanite/status/1503207784334204928
Twitter thread on the redditors who volunteered at the chutney factory
Russia is more corrupt than Ukraine.
Putin is nobody’s friend but himself.
Holodomor was worse than any suffering of Russian speakers.
I see a snake and a rat fighting and I don’t care who wins because they are still a rat and a snake.
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