• ReadFanon@lemmygrad.ml
    26·
    1 year ago

    I personally have been preoccupied with the concern of the stay-behind networkification or the brownshirtification of the ultranationalist (para-/)militaries in the Ukraine.

    I think there’s a serious risk of these groups deciding that the situation is lost and turning their interest and their weapons westward to destabilise other regions or even countries.

    I worry that Azov et al. could become the nucleus for a European style ISIS. This would absolutely be in the interests of the US as it would reduce their near-peer competition in the EU and it would push them into the arms of the US military-industrial complex (pun absolutely intended.)

    I make intentional reference to the stay-behind networks because this is really relevant to how I would see the role of these veterans and their influence/actions in Europe especially and potentially even beyond.

      • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
        11·
        1 year ago

        They didn’t even bother to hide it. Within months if not weeks of the beginning of the SMO small arms ostensibly shipped to Ukraine were showing up in the middle east. I can’t remember where the article was now but last year sometime a Balt official was on record basically laughing about millions of euros of “missing” financial and weapons aid, saying everyone knows and nobody cares. This is absolutely a Gladio/ISIS/Mujahideen type scenario.

    • relay@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      07 Comrade!

      I hope you can work to build a stay behind network to take on those fascist fucks if the unfortunately likely and terrible situation happens in your country.

    • COMHASH@lemmygrad.mlOP
      31·
      1 year ago

      I guess that had links with secret military services of western countries… I mean how could this guy end up in Ukraine? It’s bit of mystery that how large amount of money was spent on these guys without EU and US ever noticing it. Angela Merkel with all her brains knew what the danger was but they all kept their mouth shut for US ambitions and “European values”.

  • chocoraisinboi@lemmygrad.ml
    25·
    1 year ago

    That guy is straight out of a cheap GI Joe remake. He’s like the evil-man-with-eyepatch’s right hand and his demeanor is “lizard-y”

        • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
          251·
          1 year ago

          There’s been several “incidents” of Ukrainian troops filming themselves cooking and eating what they claim was flesh of dead Russian soldiers.

            • COMHASH@lemmygrad.mlOP
              91·
              1 year ago

              Because they banned Russian orthodox church and lately they persecuted the Ukrainian orthodox church and jailed their priests for not supporting the Ukro military. Also , they killed a Russian soldier by burning him alive on the cross.

              • cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
                6·
                1 year ago

                I’m skeptical of that claim. I won’t say that the burning didn’t happen, and I’m extremely hesitant to take even a hint of truth or credulity from western media. But it seems like that video is from back in 2015, rather than the current conflict in 2022.

                Of course the overall conflict dates back many decades, and the UkraNazi coup and Donbass shelling started years ago and never stopped and this conflict basically continued to this day, but I’m hesitant to say that the story of Ukrainians burning a Russian soldier on a cross happened recently.

                But still, it was a horrific event, no matter what year.

                • COMHASH@lemmygrad.mlOP
                  61·
                  1 year ago

                  oh yes the video is old , I am just saying about the horrific incidents for which they are deemed as a cult or threat in Russia , like hanging a pregnant woman along with her husband and stripping off a Russian girl then severely beating her , probably she got raped.Also , I guess they severed ties with Russian orthodox church in 2015-16 only

    • COMHASH@lemmygrad.mlOP
      271·
      1 year ago

      What he told me that he had severe disagreements with the leadership when his friends were killed in Mariupol. He was ready to fight against Donbass battalions but Russia was too much. He was also given free chit by FBI and he entered US. Actually what he told me was interesting , Azov had other plans for European continent like spreading its branches and training but NATO took over Ukraine fully and now they are just cannon fodders. First he was in Russell Bentley’s channel convincing people that those Azovs are truly anti LGBT then he got banned but before the admins had their way I had a small chat with him.