Hello.
I wish I had the time to scour through almost 800 messages so I try to make my point brief, and try to make it only once.
You should kindly stop overblowing the importance of the now destroyed and captured Azov Battalion. Anybody who pays close attention to War against humanity videos knows, that after the initial thought of liberation, most Ukrainians quickly realized that the Nazis are worse than the Soviets. There was no ethnic motivation to starve people.
Those who chose to willingly collaborate with the Nazis to the bitter end did so because they hated Jews way more than they cared about Nazis working their compatriots down to the bone and take blonde haired children for German couples who canât have kids. In short, most in Ukraine, especially those whose ancestors were subject to slave labor or revenge killings, would not and do not ever support the Azov Batallion unless theyâre psychopaths.
Among Americans the ones who have a comparable experience are people like George Takei, actually innocent Japanese Americans dragged off the streets and put into camps, not to mention the numerous other East Asians reported to authorities as locals didnât bother to discern between ethnicities.
Azov Batallion was seen locally as a necassry evil and many were foreigners who families werenât killed by Nazis, their allies or the Soviets.
As for the original comparison. Time does not happen in a vacuum. The HQ of the FSB is in the Lyubyanka prison infamously used by the KGB while the head of state is a former station chief of the KGB who was so much trusted he had a Stasi ID and didnât need to ask permission to use Stasi and KGB agents for his missions. Patriarch Cyrill was a KGB agent, so are many oligarchs within Putinâs circle.
They changed the uniform, not the mentality. The goal still is to bomb Ukraine into submission so that Putin can create the Kievan Rus 2.0 and make Russia directly border the EU. For several years now, Putin was busy recreating the Warsaw Pact and the COMECON to compete with the EU, China and the US, especially once they run out of oil.
Last December he issued a threat to NATO based on the conspiracy theory that NATO made a pledge to not expand eastwards. Iâm Hungarian and by golly, we have issues with irredentism, go no further than the PM wearing a Greater Hungary shawl to a match. During WWII the Nazis had allies who hated each other and Hitler made promises both to extend or reverse the Vienna Accords based on who he was talking to. This conflict only got frozen in time during the Soviet ocupation and reignited immediately after the Cold War. Joining NATO was vital to avoid war in the region, and joining the EU was vital to do trade.
I wish I could tell you that itâs not important how willing would people be to leave the EU, the stone cold truth is, whenever the government finally gets its compeuppance by having funds for being a repeat offender⊠many would support a Huxit.
Instead of the Azov Battalion it would maybe more wise to talk about the lasting aftereffects regarding the lack of freedom of thought in Ukraine. Nobody needs censorship to actively quell inalienable human freedoms when users themselves opt out. Both Hungary and Poland have carbon copies of deep red state American laws in connection with abortion, yet you donât see literal hundreds of thousands of women marching on the streets demanding a change. These societies lack the covalescent bond to stand up for each other for the mutual benefit and this is how you get strongmen.
How does Ukraine factor in? For starters itâs enough to recall how Zelenskiy supported Boris Johnson even though he tanked the economy, flaunted COVID rules and actively tried to undermine international law. Yet because Johnson sent money and weapons beneficial to Kyiv to them heâs a great guy.
Which should heavily alarm you. Instead of thinking like a democrat and accept that leaders come and go, Volodymir saw a strongman in Boris, therefore he doesnât respect the institution, only the man holding the title. Nobody in their right mind would have thought that if Sunak or Truss is PM then help will suddenly stop. Only people think like that who box themselves in by limit their thinking on as they do things at home thatâs how it works everywhere.
