Russia

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Russia

They are not the West's friend.

The Russia crisis thread.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/06/russian-troops-ready-to-seize-ukrainian-capital-says-former-defence-chief?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Pretty sure if Comrade Trump had won, Russia would already be in Kiev.

Neither are Ukraine. Here's one of their national guard units.. the Azov Battalion. With their somewhat familiar flags

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Pretty sure if Comrade Trump had won, Russia would already be in Kiev.
You know most of the Labour party in the UK unironically call themselves "comrade?"

Originally posted by Blakemore
You know most of the Labour party in the UK unironically call themselves "comrade?"
Not for 20+ years, you're thinking of Trade Unionists. Corbynites possible still do mind.

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Not for 20+ years, you're thinking of Trade Unionists. Corbynites possible still do mind.
Diane Abbot, Thornhill, and practically every Corbonite do it regularly in their conferences.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Neither are Ukraine. Here's one of their national guard units.. the Azov Battalion. With their somewhat familiar flags
oh, no doubt, they have a lot of crazy rightists. The majority are not mind, and they are a buffer between Europe and a powerful rogurle state.

Originally posted by Blakemore
Diane Abbot, Thornhill, and practically every Corbonite do it regularly in their conferences.
Yeah, and so would I. But that's another story. 😉

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Neither are Ukraine. Here's one of their national guard units.. the Azov Battalion. With their somewhat familiar flags

The Azov Battalion is pretty wild, but only a minority of them(~15%) are neo-Nazis and the Azov Batallion itself represent only a small fraction of the Ukrainian armed forces. In short, don't fall for this anti-Ukrainian propaganda.

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
The Azov Battalion is pretty wild, but only a minority of them(~15%) are neo-Nazis and the Azov Batallion itself represent only a small fraction of the Ukrainian armed forces. In short, don't fall for this anti-Ukrainian propaganda.
👆 for once we agree!

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
oh, no doubt, they have a lot of crazy rightists. The majority are not mind, and they are a buffer between Europe and a powerful rogurle state.
YouTube video

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
👆 for once we agree!

Hey, I'm sure we agree on Brexit as well.

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
Hey, I'm sure we agree on Brexit as well.
👆 No doubt!

Let's consider an entirely hypothetical scenario where, in the US, Biden's current government are overthrown by an entirely hypothetical right wing uprising where an entirely hypothetical protest takes place in Washington involving an entirely hypothetical extreme right wing neo nazi militia. When the new government is installed, the entirely hypothetical right wing president rewards that entirely hypothetical neo nazi militia for their help installing him(or her) by incorporating the entirely hypothetical extreme far right neo nazi militia into the official US military.

I mean, they'd only be a tiny % of the US military so that'd be ok, right?

We wouldn't be talking anti X propaganda in that situation, would we?

Of course not.

Stand back and stand by.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Let's consider an entirely hypothetical scenario where, in the US, Biden's current government are overthrown by an entirely hypothetical right wing uprising where an entirely hypothetical protest takes place in Washington involving an entirely hypothetical extreme right wing neo nazi militia. When the new government is installed, the entirely hypothetical right wing president rewards that entirely hypothetical neo nazi militia for their help installing him(or her) by incorporating the entirely hypothetical extreme far right neo nazi militia into the official US military.

I mean, they'd only be a tiny % of the US military so that'd be ok, right?

We wouldn't be talking anti X propaganda in that situation, would we?

Of course not.

Stand back and stand by.

Good argument against BLM and Antifa.

Giving them a pass for burning buildings, looting, and violent behavior is not ok. As you just proved.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Let's consider an entirely hypothetical scenario where, in the US, Biden's current government are overthrown by an entirely hypothetical right wing uprising where an entirely hypothetical protest takes place in Washington involving an entirely hypothetical extreme right wing neo nazi militia. When the new government is installed, the entirely hypothetical right wing president rewards that entirely hypothetical neo nazi militia for their help installing him(or her) by incorporating the entirely hypothetical extreme far right neo nazi militia into the official US military.

I mean, they'd only be a tiny % of the US military so that'd be ok, right?

We wouldn't be talking anti X propaganda in that situation, would we?

Of course not.

Stand back and stand by.

😂 Thing is though, and I take your point - we have mad Nazi's in our army two.

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/the-far-rights-rise-within-armed-forces-is-a-global-threat-to-democracy/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiQ-M-Alez1AhWt_7sIHaZDB3oQFnoECAgQAg&usg=AOvVaw1xbJR2EwVx3AzxiE_Ys3b8

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/british-military-personnel-investigated-for-far-right-extremist-links-1.1233286&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiQ-M-Alez1AhWt_7sIHaZDB3oQFnoECAcQAg&usg=AOvVaw3qY8CBXhNYVbPAwgjbarBn

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.fairobserver.com/region/europe/uk-far-right-british-army-extremism-europe-news-17712/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiQ-M-Alez1AhWt_7sIHaZDB3oQFnoECAEQAg&usg=AOvVaw2fZ5ZMm0giPETYL5674xz2

Funnier though was this lot.

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10384239/Alpha-Men-Assemble-Inside-anti-vax-group-members-taught-wage-war-government.html&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjDxKHclez1AhUug_0HHYaXDRQQFnoECAoQAg&usg=AOvVaw2ijDhKF9Pb_QEOnac09Gm0

Deano's Army... 😂

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
😂 Thing is though, and I take your point - we have mad Nazi's in our army two.

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/the-far-rights-rise-within-armed-forces-is-a-global-threat-to-democracy/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiQ-M-Alez1AhWt_7sIHaZDB3oQFnoECAgQAg&usg=AOvVaw1xbJR2EwVx3AzxiE_Ys3b8

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/british-military-personnel-investigated-for-far-right-extremist-links-1.1233286&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiQ-M-Alez1AhWt_7sIHaZDB3oQFnoECAcQAg&usg=AOvVaw3qY8CBXhNYVbPAwgjbarBn

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.fairobserver.com/region/europe/uk-far-right-british-army-extremism-europe-news-17712/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiQ-M-Alez1AhWt_7sIHaZDB3oQFnoECAEQAg&usg=AOvVaw2fZ5ZMm0giPETYL5674xz2

Funnier though was this lot.

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10384239/Alpha-Men-Assemble-Inside-anti-vax-group-members-taught-wage-war-government.html&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjDxKHclez1AhUug_0HHYaXDRQQFnoECAoQAg&usg=AOvVaw2ijDhKF9Pb_QEOnac09Gm0

Deano's Army... 😂

"the daily mail" 😂

He must read the daily mail as much as you read the guardian!

Originally posted by Blakemore
"the daily mail" 😂

He must read the daily mail as much as you read the guardian!

😂

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Let's consider an entirely hypothetical scenario where, in the US, Biden's current government are overthrown by an entirely hypothetical right wing uprising where an entirely hypothetical protest takes place in Washington involving an entirely hypothetical extreme right wing neo nazi militia. When the new government is installed, the entirely hypothetical right wing president rewards that entirely hypothetical neo nazi militia for their help installing him(or her) by incorporating the entirely hypothetical extreme far right neo nazi militia into the official US military.

I mean, they'd only be a tiny % of the US military so that'd be ok, right?

We wouldn't be talking anti X propaganda in that situation, would we?

Of course not.

Stand back and stand by.


Or we could consider an entirely hypothetical scenario where an unbelievably corrupt and sleazy hypothetical government of a hypothetical Eastern European country is overthrown by its hypothetical people coming from literally all sides of the political spectrum after the entirely hypothetical government has broken its promises and failed its people for the millionth time. Now let us say this seriously pisses off its massive yet entirely hypothetical neighbouring country which was supporting the hypothetical ousted government in order to keep said hypothetical Eastern European country in a state of vassalage. This, in turn, causes the massive yet hypothetical country to effectively start a hypothetical war against this hypothetical Eastern European country, annexing several of its hypothetical territories and keeping it in a state of an indefinite low-intensity conflict.

The new hypothetical government of this hypothetical Eastern European country now finds itself in a very precarious position since the last hypothetical vassal-government has almost completely gutted its hypothetical military. They are desperate to bolster its hypothetical military capacity to fend of blatant aggression from its massive yet entirely hypothetical eastern neighbour. In order to do this, they have to turn to pretty much anyone willing to fight to maintain this hypothetical country's hypothetical national sovereignty, which may include relatively small numbers coming from hypothetical far-right groups.

Stand back and stand by indeed.