Anyone seen this?
So wait…. All that nazi stuff is not imagined out of thin air? I mean every country have neoidiots but political party?
But this aside, the conflict is still same old USA vs Russia but Russia actually made a move. Ooof
If you want a real take on what happens, a yellow toothed Australian youtuber whose attempts to be funny fail every single time isn't the way to go.
I made some brief notes while listening to it and working and essentially it boils all political geopolitical situations into the fault of the Americans, including glossing over the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis as an American puppet seizing power. It reinforces the cult of Putin worship without analysis but also blames Putin on the US as well. It regurgitates the NATO expansion nonsense as being a factor of aggression despite it being a defensive pact and perpetuates the
NATO enlargement myth, as well as glossing over its UN mandated interventions as if there weren't war crimes going on in
Srebrenica.
It only starts to get into Ukraine, the point of the video, at 8 minutes in which is largely detached from the first 8 minutes. It simplifies Ukrainian history (Eastern Ukraine isn't "Russian") with no analysis of the Russian influence in its politics, which given the fact that Russia is the belligerent, would make you think that it is an essential component of the analysis. It has no problem dropping Hunter Biden into the mix to fuel conspiracy theorists amid its very weak attempt to address the actual historical circumstances that took place in the Revolution of Dignity. While Zelenskyy is a comedian, it feeds into Russian attempts to discredit him as some puppet-buffoon of the US despite the fact he has a law degree.
The Revolution
did have Ukrainian Nationalists, who in lacking an armed forces accepted anyone in fighting against the authoritarian Yanukovich regime. They were also some of the ones at the forefront in the volunteer battalions of Donbas in battling Russian-backed separatists and Russian military (again no mention of actual Russian forces). Once the Berkut was disbanded and the National Guard brought back, the volunteer battalions were folded into the National Guard and the Nationalists took their aims political. Rising to a meagre minority before being completely kicked out by the voters who wanted a pro-EU future. What the video does not say is that there were and are neo-nazis fighting on the Russian side, like Sparta Battalion and that these views which also line up with the current fascist Russian regime of Putin. Their difference isn't whether one side is Neo-Nazi or not, the dispute was about Russian influence in Ukraine. One side sucks Putin's dick due to deep and longstanding Russian political manipulation and the other want a Ukraine free of that Russian slavery.
Andrei Biletsky is not the current leader of Azov, the leader is Denis Prokopenko who is a Ukrainian of Karelian Finnish descent with a family history of hating Communists/Russians. Under his leadership in 2018 Azov became de-politicized and primarily focussed as a hyper-aggressive, highly focused force under the the Ukrainian military. It is not the same sort of nationalist force as it was under Biletsky and has only a handful of old guard that are grandfathered in. So no, Ukraine does not have a neo-nazi unit in its military.
Not once did the video address Putin's own declaration of war and reasons for the conflict. It did not mention Russkiy Mir, Third Rome, the claim that Ukraine is a Leninist invention (per Putin), the assets at play in "Novorossiya", Russian imperialism, or the long history of Russian influence in neighboring countries with a Russian diaspora, any term of which you could simply google and learn more about the conflict as a result than wasting time on that video.
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