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 ...
Just like it’s a fact that Catholic Churches are hotbeds of domestic terrorism. The FBI said so. And Ukraine’s SBU (which was murdering folks the oligarchs found inconvenient even long before the Russian invasion) is even more reliable than our FBI.
Yes, push the narrative of “white supremacists” while reality is the black community running amok.
Thank you for finding that.
That’s all we needed to know. This article is pure garbage.
WTF does white supremacy have to do with an eternal war between white folk?
This must mean the Vikings, Gots, Rus, and Mongols were all white supremacists...
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