Posted on 07/31/2023 7:17:44 AM PDT by JonPreston
In early 2014, violent street protests in Kyiv forced the resignation of the pro-Russian Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. Within four months, Russia had annexed Crimea and was backing separatists in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine.
Ultranationalist protest groups — instrumental in the toppling of Yanukovych government — transformed overnight into volunteer battalions like Right Sector and Azov, then rushed to the eastern front, where they were lauded as patriots for undertaking the heavy fighting while the under-resourced Ukrainian state military scrambled to mobilize.
Azov in particular has leveraged its social capital by integrating into the Ukrainian National Guard, where it wields outsized influence in Ukraine’s democratically elected government.
More than five years later, with the war locked in a stalemate, the seasoned fighters and street activists in the ultranationalist movement present a challenge to newly elected President Volodymyr Zelensky if he is seen to be conceding too much in negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
(Excerpt) Read more at triad-city-beat.com ...
What a crock
Um, the “democratically elected” government has suspended elections, closed down churches, arrested reporters, and outlawed all opposition parties. Fact.
that’s 100% true.
HUH? Didn’t know the ukes were fighting the black Russians.
“Ultranationalists,” “American White Supremacists.” Where’s “QAnon,” “MAGA Republicans,” “Evangelical Christians,” “Strict Constitutionalists,” “Religious Right,” and “2+2=4 Mathematical Dogmatists”? Who makes this stuff up? Far scarier, who believes it?
At least 1/3rd of the country, it would seem.
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I don’t think the war is a ‘stalemate’ yet.
Ukraine continues to take it’s territory back very slowly. The maps demonstrate that it has recovered a significant portion (50%) of all invaded territory, and probably a bigger percentage since the last Russian invasion. However, it’s incredibly slow, incredibly deadly, and environmentally damaging.
Ukraine has a poor chance of re-taking it’s territory by force anytime soon, IMHO. Probably looking at years to retake all of Ukraine, if successful. Ukraine will likely suffer years of de-mining and environmental cleanups from the war.
Russia has absolutely NO chance of meeting any of it’s pre-war objectives. It will now have NATO neighbors because of this invasion. It will have hostile nations (at least Ukraine) on it’s borders, NATO nations preventing further Russian aggression on other borders, and a opportunistic China to the south. It will be a political, economical, and military disaster that will be remembered for decades. Finally, if Ukraine is able to retake it’s territory, will the Chinese respect the Russians or it’s sovereignty, when it wants to ‘expand’ like Putin did?
I have always advocated for a peaceful settlement, that didn’t involve NATO, or expansion of NATO to the Russian ‘buffer zone’. I do not advocate the US meddling in Russian border client states politics, or Russian meddling in Western Hemisphere (Honduras, Venezuela, Cuba, ect.).
IMHO, Putin has not played his cards wisely at this point. Peace is actually a better and safer future for Russia than antagonistic neighbors.
“White supremacists” fighting for globohomo?
The author sure has a stealthy way of saying that Joe Biden, Lindsey Grahame, et al, are White Supremacists. They seem to be the Americans drawn to fighting in Ukraine.
Good to see the truth about the Neo- Nazi problem the Ukies have had since 2014. Bad to see the US giving away so much taxpayers money to their pet Nazis.
This is pure garbage.
FO, Green. You’re FOS and treason.
“Good to see the truth about the Neo- Nazi problem the Ukies have had since 2014. Bad to see the US giving away so much taxpayers money to their pet Nazis.”
Agree, and I guess if the Holocaust Deniers again need to see the headlines from the 2014+ timeframe, from the WESTERN MEDIA, we can run them again...but then even they know the truth about the Nazi infestation of Ukraine.
Ukraine’s days must be numbered in the US Government public mindset
They are equating Ukraine with American white supremacists, one of the left’s favorite boogey-monsters.
About The Source. Looks like bottom feeding
“We unapologetically focus on the cities, and won’t shrink from defending LGBTQ+ rights, racial justice and an urban sensibility. We carry the flag for no party or faction, and fiercely defend our editorial independence.”
That fact about closed down churches. Those churches were fronts for the Russian Intelligence.
It is good to look deeper for the fun of it.
"We unapologetically focus on the cities, and won’t shrink from defending LGBTQ+ rights, racial justice and an urban sensibility. We carry the flag for no party or faction, and fiercely defend our editorial independence. Triad City Beat is owned by Beat Media Inc., based in North Carolina."
Source: https://triad-city-beat.com/about-us-and-staff-bios/
Yes, the staff list their preferred pronouns. It is interesting to scroll down and look through all their informative bios.....
Beat Media has its Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/beatmediainc/
As it says of itself, "New marketing solutions for the evolving media landscape."
Triad is another of those web domains with data hidden by Domains By Proxy, LLC in Arizona.
So when they write about "The lost boys of Ukraine: How the war abroad beckoned American white supremacists," there is something defintiely queer about the whole headline and subsequent prose. From the article which I wager a lot of people commenting didn't read....
Another former volunteer who spoke on condition of anonymity took a philosophical stance, arguing that hate and love persist in the world simultaneously. But he acknowledged there is a segment of the foreign fighter population that causes him concern.:)“It’s worrying that people who are free and easy in Ukraine, who recite from American History X and talk about putting your teeth on the curb. These people who are lost and they’re looking for a cause are out there,” he said.
“You’re having domestic citizens from the US coming over here and they’re bringing their crap back to your doorstep,” the former volunteer continued. “It’s not good. These guys coming out here waving guns — it’s easy. You can arrive at the airport in Kyiv, and before you know it you can be on the frontline.”
“Those churches were fronts for the Russian Intelligence.”
Of course they were - that’s why they were bristling with antennas. Yep, if you guys say so.
Once again, this thread proves that leftist talk about “the right-wing echo chamber” in conservative media is a bunch of drivel. Who needs lefties to argue with when we have fellow conservatives to argue with?
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