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Ukraine embraces far-right Russian ‘bad guy’ to take the battle to Putin
Politico ^ | April 3, 2024 4:00 AM CET | By: Jamie Dettmer

Posted on 04/06/2024 8:04:29 AM PDT by Robert DeLong

Subtitle:

Germany describes Denis Kapustin as a top neo-Nazi, and his role in the war is a double-edged sword for Kyiv.

Yikes, Germany & Politico utter the truth. Zeepers will freak out that the are supporting Nazis after all!!!!

Okay, I'm dreaming. 🤣

We know that no matter who says the quiet part out loud, they will just label them as Putinistas. Because after all, Russia invaded Ukraine.


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KYIV —“We’re the bad guys but fighting really evil guys,” wisecracks Denis Kapustin.

For now, Ukraine is willing to embrace his form of bad guy. As a Russian militant who led eye-catching paramilitary raids into Russia from Ukrainian territory this year and last, Kyiv sees Kapustin has a role to play as an ally against President Vladimir Putin.

But there are hazards in holding him too close. German authorities say Kapustin — sometimes known as Denis Nikitin — is “one of the most influential neo-Nazi activists” on the European continent, and that’s a godsend to Russian propagandists, who are seeking to whitewash their murderous invasion of Ukraine as an attempt to “de-Nazify” Kyiv.

“Think of ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,’” adds Kapustin, who leads the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), the largest of three anti-Kremlin Russian militias fighting for Ukraine. “Before, you just had good guys and bad guys dressed in black in cowboy movies, and then Clint Eastwood comes along and he’s dressed in black and fighting for good,” he says.

Kapustin is indeed dressed in black for his discussion with POLITICO in a downtown Kyiv hotel — though his clothing is free of any neo-Nazi logos or flashes. That’s despite the fact he runs a far-right apparel line of T-shirts and caps emblazoned with white nationalist and xenophobic imagery as well as the Nazi symbol 88 — the eighth letter of the alphabet twice being a not-so-subtle code for “Heil Hitler.”

“I walk a thin line,” Kapustin says, disputing the neo-Nazi label and noting, almost teasingly, that he doesn’t put swastikas on any of the T-shirts he flogs, as though that proves anything.

Russian state media relish pointing to Kapustin’s origins as a far-right football hooligan as it bolsters their pretext for the war.

1 posted on 04/06/2024 8:04:29 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

“It is also known as the Nazi-Soviet Pact or the Hitler-Stalin Pact. The arrangement included a 10-year non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union. It also called for economic cooperation and territorial expansion. The German-Soviet Pact prepared the way for World War II.”

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-soviet-pact#:~:text=It%20is%20also%20known%20as,or%20the%20Hitler%2DStalin%20Pact.&text=The%20arrangement%20included%20a%2010,economic%20cooperation%20and%20territorial%20expansion.&text=The%20German%2DSoviet%20Pact%20prepared%20the%20way%20for%20World%20War%20II.


2 posted on 04/06/2024 8:08:56 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (Defeat the Pro-RuZZia wing of the Republican Party)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

When the Nazis were invading France and bombing Britain, the Soviet Union was their largest supplier.


3 posted on 04/06/2024 8:10:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
The arrangement included a 10-year non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union.

You realize the Nazis and Soviets fought each other in the largest ground war in history, right?

4 posted on 04/06/2024 8:11:50 AM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Robert DeLong
Follow along with Zelensky as he says..."Seig heil!"


5 posted on 04/06/2024 8:13:35 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: SpeedyInTexas; Robert DeLong

Thank you for posting this Robert DeLong. We have been exposing our Neo-Nazi Zeepers for two years now, but now with the MSM in onboard, more people will listen.


6 posted on 04/06/2024 8:13:47 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Robert DeLong
Kapustin is indeed dressed in black for his discussion with POLITICO in a downtown Kyiv hotel...

Well, there's a opportunity to "Edit" Politico!

7 posted on 04/06/2024 8:13:53 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Robert DeLong

You must have watched the enlightening conversation between Steve and Ben on the War Room this morning.


8 posted on 04/06/2024 8:14:58 AM PDT by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Yeah, but after Germany attacked Russia, he became an
“ally”. How convenient that you omit that uncomfortable fact.


9 posted on 04/06/2024 8:18:07 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: bimboeruption

Indeed I did. 🙂👍


10 posted on 04/06/2024 8:21:13 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

Not much difference between Nazis and commies.


11 posted on 04/06/2024 8:23:46 AM PDT by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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To: Robert DeLong
Read the rest of the article before you post. "Moscow’s continual attempt to cast their struggle as a rerun of World War II against Nazism rings hollow in reality, however. Not only is Ukraine’s president Jewish but far-right extremist parties have near negligible support in national representative politics."

"If that weren’t enough, Moscow’s insistence that Ukraine’s forces are Nazis overlooks the fact that avowed neo-Nazi groups are fighting for Russia too. Including the notorious Rusich militia, which happily displays Nazi flashes, advocates racist ideology and has been accused of battlefield atrocities in Ukraine and Syria, and the white supremacist Russian Imperial Movement, designated a “terrorist organization” by the United States."

12 posted on 04/06/2024 8:25:20 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: kenmcg

Nazis have snappier uniforms.


13 posted on 04/06/2024 8:25:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Robert DeLong

Ben is a font of knowledge regarding Ukraine/Russia.

I recommend watching his discussion with Steve during the second half of the first hour.


14 posted on 04/06/2024 8:26:43 AM PDT by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

>>>If that weren’t enough, Moscow’s insistence that Ukraine’s forces are Nazis overlooks the fact that avowed neo-Nazi groups are fighting for Russia too.<<<

Right Chad, we knew that, but Putin doesn’t have his greasy hand in our pockets, grifting billions from us and wanting more.

Americans shouldn’t be funding Nazis whether they be Ukrainian or Russian.


15 posted on 04/06/2024 8:32:55 AM PDT by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

All of which has absolutely nothing to do with your support of yet another endless war financed by American taxpayers. You are aligned with the worst people on the planet in an effort to promote more than fifty-years of Neocon Joe Biden’s failed foreign policy. Are you feeling proud now that your support of neo-Nazis has been made public?


16 posted on 04/06/2024 8:33:39 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Robert DeLong

Is the US backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine?

John McCain and other State Department members have troubling ties to the ultra-nationalist Svoboda party

February 25, 2014

https://www.salon.com/2014/02/25/is_the_us_backing_neo_nazis_in_ukraine_partner/

17 posted on 04/06/2024 8:37:18 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: JonPreston; Robert DeLong

From the article: Nonetheless, Kapustin bristles at being called a neo-Nazi himself, even though he is hazy about what he is. He relishes sparring with Western journalists, seeing how awkward many of them feel interviewing him, torn between disapproval of his far-right ideology and hooligan history and their sympathy for Ukraine, not wanting to put the county in a bad light for Western liberal audiences.

“Will you try to remain unbiased?” he asks. “It is a very funny position for you and your colleagues because you all have been trying hard to put us in a bad light for years. Neo-Nazis, racist, white supremacists, terrible guys, blah, blah, blah. And then the darkest hour in Ukraine’s modern day history arrives. And all of a sudden the eternal bad guys turn out to be brave, courageous, determined, stubborn and heroes. And they’re like, ‘damn, how should I write about them?’”

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Kapustin is amazed by the media confusion regarding their reporting on neo-Nazis, racists and white supremacists.

The media called them bad guys, evil, etc., until they started fighting for Ukraine.

Now even the Nazis are pulling the mask off Zelensky signaling the end of the game is near.


18 posted on 04/06/2024 8:47:33 AM PDT by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: Robert DeLong

The enemy of your enemy can be your “friend” in war. In WW II the USA gave massive military supplies to Stalin,one of the greatest mass murders in human history.

Below is the salient quote in that article which for some reason was omitted in the parent post:

“Moscow’s continual attempt to cast their struggle as a rerun of World War II against Nazism rings hollow in reality, however. Not only is Ukraine’s president Jewish but far-right extremist parties have near negligible support in national representative politics.”

“If that weren’t enough, Moscow’s insistence that Ukraine’s forces are Nazis overlooks the fact that avowed neo-Nazi groups are fighting for Russia too. Including the notorious Rusich militia, which happily displays Nazi flashes, advocates racist ideology and has been accused of battlefield atrocities in Ukraine and Syria, and the white supremacist Russian Imperial Movement, designated a “terrorist organization” by the United States.”

Yet the Putridnistas who ignore the Russian Nazis embedded in their brutal, genocidal, scorched earth invasion of Ukraine can only point their hypocritical finger at Ukraine.

What they are speaks so loudly I cannot believe what they say.


19 posted on 04/06/2024 8:54:42 AM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: McGruff
>>>John McCain and other State Department members have troubling ties to the ultra-nationalist Svoboda party<<<

Songbird McCain = Victoria Nuland

They worked for the same boss.

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20 posted on 04/06/2024 9:00:47 AM PDT by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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