Re:Understanding the War in Ukraine
by vintermann on Friday February 25, 2022 @04:12AM
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Of course it's just a dishonest pretext by Putin, he has no problem with neo-nazis as long as they're on his side, but there's a grain of truth in it. Look up Azov battalion.
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What we should find in Ukrainian spec-ops unit? Germans?
Re:Understanding the War in Ukraine
by vintermann on Friday February 25, 2022 @07:04AM
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When you have a bunch of football hooligans wearing nazi insignia, having nazi tattoos, waving nazi flags and talking about a historic mission to lead the white races of the world in a final crusade against the Semite-led untermenschen... does it really matter what "race" they are?
Of course it's a rotten excuse for an invasion. But I think it answer OP's question, "why on earth anyone is buying into it". People are buying into it because there's a grain of truth to it.
That's how propaganda works: pack the big lie in a small truth.