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Russia Backs Europe’s Far Right

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Well, isnt the West also backing the Ukranian Far Rights, too?

There was a absurd article in the major German newspaper WELT today speaking about Ukranian soldiers with swastika tattoos and yet "having a lot of respect for Jews".

When this war is over, we MUST seriously take care of Nazis in Ukraine and even now do EVERYTHING to stop any weapons delivery to the Ukranian Far Right.

No, you will NOT downvote me! I am not speaking about people serving in the army without Nazi ideology, I am speaking about those Far Right radicals.

> Well, isnt the West also backing the Ukranian Far Rights, too?

Well whoop-dee-doo. Welcome to realpolitik. Meanwhile, Russia is backing the far-right in Europe (and for that matter, in your country, too). Your concern should be focused on that, not whattabout the US!

Put your oxygen mask on before trying to save others.

After twenty years of inciting and funding far right organisations across the world to build a white AlQaeeda to fight Russia in Ukraine, the West now says it's Russia stirring the right wing (checks notes) to fight in a proxy war against Russia. Cool. Makes no sense. Got it.

Nobody is fighting proxy war against Russia. Russia is simply getting denazified.

Ukrainian far-right was marginal, and now doesn’t really exist. Meanwhile in Russia it’s the state ideology.

Neither of those statements make any sense no matter which direction one tries to go with it (they are just blank statements of no significance, no validity and neither is rooted in reality -- just spending one day at wikipedia may help to be less ignorant (as Tim Minchin says in one of his songs). [Start with the political parties of UA in recent pas, throw in some Yarosh and other western UA figures. They should balance your view and get you to scale better the political power of the said ideology]. Of cause, 'freedom' you have to remain uniformed, and that is ok, we can exchange short messages as this one.

However, already Jefferson put it strongly back at his days "If a nation expects to be both ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be".

... and I leave off with a latin proverb: "where there is doubt there is freedom". Lets leave hypocrisy of demagoguery at the door in civilized opinions.

Both of those statements are obviously true. If you know how many votes far-right got in last elections in Ukraine you'll see it's marginal. And if you've seen Rashist propaganda you'll know what their state ideology is.

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