From Lukas Borl

Let me start by asking a question: Are the enemies of our enemies automatically our friends and allies? This is a question that people have always asked themselves when deciding with whom and how to ally in pursuit of their goals. Even today, questions of this kind are relevant to us. For example: if our enemy is Putin and his supporters, is anyone who takes up arms and uses them against Putin’s supporters automatically our friend and ally? Some may argue that a question posed in this way is too vague to be answered immediately. I will therefore try to be more specific. I will describe a few specific people who have died in the war in Ukraine and have become uncritically glorified martyrs for quite a few people.

1) Yuri Samoylenko / Юрий Самойленко

The obituary on the website of the Anarchist Federation states “Yuri Samoylenko: a great organiser of anti-fascist resistance”. But on his tombstone it says ‘Right Sector officer’.

source: https://x.com/Voxkomm/status/1678148412347404288

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The question arises: Can both of these statements be true, or are they mutually exclusive? Let each answer for himself. And if anyone has trouble finding the answer, here is some basic information about the Right Sector that may serve as useful clues.

Right Sector (Ukrainian: Пра́вий се́ктор [právyj séktor]) is the name of a Ukrainian nationalist party founded on March 22, 2014. The movement combines radical Ukrainian nationalism in the tradition of Stepan Bandera and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).

Right Sector supporters carry a flag with a portrait of Stepan Bandera, Kiev, January 1, 2015

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And who was this Stepan Andriyovich Bandera? He was the leader and chairman of the radical wing of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B). In 1939, he collaborated with Nazi Germany and organized a military unit under the German Wehrmacht. Bandera pledged the cooperation of the new Ukrainian state with Nazi Germany under Hitler, with the final remark “Glory to the heroic German army and its Führer Adolf Hitler”. The declaration was accompanied by violent pogroms.

And what was the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)? It was an armed unit of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), more precisely its radical faction led by Stepan Bandera (OUN-B). The organisation is seen as highly controversial, especially for its association with the Nazi occupiers and for its massacres of civilians.

I will now ask two questions, clearly and specifically. Was Yuri Samoylenko – i.e. the fallen Right Sector officer – a hero who should be praised because he was an enemy of the Putinists, just as the anarchists are? Was this enemy of our enemies our friend and ally? Let everyone answer for themselves.

2) Roman Legar / Романа “Ісуса” Легара

“On 9 June 2024, an anarchist, soldier of the Azov Brigade, our comrade and close friend Roman Legar was killed,” wrote his obituary on the Revolutionary Action profile (Революційна Дія). A few lines later, it says: “The hardships of his service and environment did not break Roman, he remained faithful to his anarchist convictions until the end.”

Does this mean that the Azov Brigade, infamous for its collaboration with the far right, was transformed into a formation for people with anarchist convictions? Again, let everyone answer for themselves.

3) Sergey Petrovichev / Сергей Петровичев

The Autonomous Action website announced death of Sergey Petrovichev, also known by the names “Rubin” and “Vasili Volgin“. “We mourn the martyrdom of our comrade who gave his life for the freedom of all nations.” the website says. “Sergey Petrovichev: the unbreakable anarchist from Russia” reads again the obituary on the Anarchist Federation website. But on his personal FB profile, the same Sergey Petrovichev posted a photo of himself proudly posing with neo-Nazi Maxim Martsinkevich. He uploaded the photo 2 days after Maxim’s death with comments about how people should “avenge” him.

source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3293046094106365

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So the question is: Has the political situation really changed so much with the war in Ukraine that being an “unbreakable anarchist” now means something like being a “friend of a neo-Nazi”? I’ll leave the question unanswered. As a clue, I will now cite information from the antifa.cz website about the White Rex clothing brand, in front of whose logo “unbreakable anarchist” Sergey Petrovichev posed with neo-Nazi Maxim “Tesak” Martsinkevich.

White Rex is a Russian clothing brand that focuses on combat sports. Although the owner is all obfuscation and denial, one doesn’t have to be much of a guru to figure out that White Rex is primarily targeting neo-Nazis. The brand was founded in 2008 by Denis Nikitins with the idea that it should bring together people with similar views and beliefs while raising some money for “charity”. By charity, he means financial support for incarcerated neo-Nazis, whom he calls “prisoners of conscience.” (…) In 2011, White Rex started a series of its own tournaments called “Duch Vojna” (Spirit Warrior). Although they are not exclusively for neo-Nazis, it is clear that they are primarily intended for them. (…) During the last event in December 2012, a well-known neo-Nazi activist from Format18, Maxim “Tesak” Martsinkevich, spoke at the event.

And some more essential information about the aforementioned Martsinkevich (Максим Марцинкевич in Russian). He first gained public attention as the leader of the far-right youth group Format 18, which was presented as the “armed wing” of the National Socialist Society. The number 18 is the code or symbol for the name “Adolf Hitler”, as the letter A is the first and H is the eighth in Latin. Members of Format 18 attacked Asian migrant workers and homeless people. They filmed the attacks and uploaded the videos to the internet.

Martsinkevich was sentenced three times in prison for inciting racial or ethnic hatred. The first time was in 2007 after he disrupted political debates by shouting “Sieg Heil!” at a book club in Moscow. In 2009, he was again convicted for making a video with racist content. In the autumn of 2013, he was again accused of publishing new videos with racist remarks. During his next sentence in 2020, an investigation was opened into his involvement in hate killings. He confessed to involvement in a series of murders motivated by racist ideology. According to the investigation, the victims were several men of non-Slavic appearance (mostly Central Asian migrants) and a Russian sex worker. Martsinkevich testified against other participants in the murders and led investigators to some of the victims’ bodies, but was soon found dead in his cell.

That’s right, this is the man that the “unbreakable anarchist” Sergey Petrovichev took pictures with, defended and called for revenge after he was found dead in a prison cell.

Final summary

A friend of a neo-Nazi and a murderer is presented to us as an “unbreakable anarchist”, a Right Sector officer as a “great organizer of anti-fascist resistance” and an Azov soldier as a “man with an anarchist mindset”.

Why do I have the feeling that something is wrong here? Or are my feelings deceiving me, because according to some people I am just a confused dogmatist and sectarian who does not understand the meaning of pragmatism? Who knows? Make up your own mind.

Lukáš Borl, December 2, 2024

Comments

anon (not verified) Fri, 12/27/2024 - 10:59

Strange bedfellows are made in times of struggle. In a fight against entrenched power structures, or an active invasion of your home (I won’t be supporting the idea of a “homeland” anytime soon,) sometimes you have to put other fights on pause. Fighting alongside neonazis is pretty egregious, but the given circumstances of an imperialist empire knocking at your back door could be extreme enough that you’d take allies wherever you can get them.

On the other hand, openly praising and martyring neonazis is not something anarchists should be doing, regardless of what fight they were in.

lumpy (not verified) Fri, 12/27/2024 - 11:58

In reply to by anon (not verified)

i'm not sure anyone is criticizing anarchist militants for realizing retroactively that somebody watching their back in a gunfight, turned out to be a fascist. but the propaganda efforts around these "tensions" should be subject to maximum scrutiny, to say the least

Tim Declercq (not verified) Fri, 12/27/2024 - 12:17

In reply to by lumpy (not verified)

If either of you had bothered to check, for example, the publication date of Sergey's selfies with Maxim you'd easily have seen that it was posted in September 2020, well over a year before this invasion even started. Furthermore, Sergey had already been a member of anarcho-nazi groups dating back well over a decade earlier (he was a member of Volnytsa in 2012). We aren't talking about "anarchist militants retroactively realizing somebody watching their back in a gunfight is a nazi", we are talking about decade-long neo-nazis being passed of as "anarchists".

lumpy (not verified) Fri, 12/27/2024 - 16:14

In reply to by Tim Declercq (not verified)

that's a good point tim, although i was speaking generally, since people have been bickering about various versions of this problem on this site since the war started

Mary Apple (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 12:19

In reply to by lumpy (not verified)

Like Lumpy, I too yearn to level the bastions of power (we are, in a word, "sympatico"), but endless time has produced endless failure and for countless centuries we've watched the course of human progress lurch continuously between triumph and disaster. The human race has shown itself to be a helpless moth awaiting sudden destruction---unstable atoms running wild in frightening patterns, producing weakened cybernetic offspring and fawning liberal servitors of the State. How many unreported and unwritten mammoth events provided the oil which still spins the wheels of this platic-pickle works we call modern civilization?
The problem lies in the capability and readiness of anarchists to astonish all onlookers and remains primarilly a question of exigency. I think Lumpy settled this matter pretty effectively with the statement "that's a good point tim, although i was speaking generally, since people have been bickering about various versions of this problem on this site since the war started". This is street wisdom that only a fool would debate! Incidentally Lumpy, I'd be very curious to hear your thoughts on Wittgenstein, if you'd care to expound upon them. Until then, carry on the struggle!

CalvinSmith (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 12:47

In reply to by Mary Apple (not verified)

*then realizes Mary Apple and lumpy are both just trolling on a website infiltrated by cops and fascists years ago*

It is always an interesting question though: why people lie so much?

Tim Declercq (not verified) Fri, 12/27/2024 - 12:26

In reply to by lumpy (not verified)

Next time at least check up on the sources which are clearly linked to in the article before writing nonsense comments, so you save the rest of us the tedium of having to point out the glaringly obvious errors in your points.

EmmaAintDead Fri, 12/27/2024 - 16:26

the question is posed with an answer clearly in mind by the author. I won't fault him for that, but I will ask if we will be extending the same condemnation to anarchists with prior military service in the United States military or current ties to it. how about the German armed forces? or the Spanish? Italian? Facism abounds in every army for every nation. they are by definition violently nationalist entities without exception. are the Ukrainians substantially different in this regard?

I'd argue not, and I'd further argue that comparatively the Ukranian fascists have been a lesser threat than any of the above listed. If this isn't a belief held regarding fighters (current or former) in those militaries, it's inconsistently held and at best arbitrarily applied here. but it certainly feels more opportunistic than arbitrary.

anon (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 00:03

In reply to by EmmaAintDead

"Yes, posting martyr biographies glorifying them as anarchists is bullshit" is a perfectly acceptable answer to your question about other euro-colonial imperialist troops. (I also believe every army you cited is also a volunteer, rather than conscript, army, which for some people may be an important distinction.)

There may be good reasons to not give that answer, acceptable as it is. One is that Lukas's post focused on people who were nazis up to the time of their deaths, as far as we know. Perhaps it's important to distinguish between them & those who merely have "prior military service."

Even fuether, "Facism abounds in every army for every nation. they are by definition violently nationalist entities without exception." should draw objections from those who don't consider fascism to merely be a synonym for "violent nationalism," or even "violent white nationalism," (as every army you pose as an example is that of a majority white european nation). Many anarchists reject this equation, even if they find fascism & [violent] nationalism to have strong overlap.

anon (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 00:05

In reply to by anon (not verified)

The u.s. army is culturally/hegemonically white european, but obviously it's not in europe. Imagine my reply made that distinction too.

Tim Declercq (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 00:22

In reply to by EmmaAintDead

"if we will be extending the same condemnation to anarchists with prior military service in the United States military or current ties to it"

The comparison isn't with military service in the US military but with service in, say, Attomwaffen Division or other violent, explicitly neo-nazi militia groups. And yes, I would certainly hope that "anarchists" who are members of Attomwaffen Division are also condemned for it. Like, what is so difficult for you people to understand that Azov, DUK-PS, and the OUN - the organizations the people mentioned in the article fought in - are not just random military units but the paramilitary wings of explicitly political fascist groups? These are not just military units with some fascists in them, these are political groups with political programs.

Tim Declercq (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 02:00

In reply to by Tim Declercq (not verified)

Here are the political programs of the groups in question, so you can read them for yourself (basically just your run-off-the-mill fascist screeds):

- Yuri's group (Pravy Sektor): https://web.archive.org/web/20220604190831/https://pravyysektor.info/pr…

- Roman's group (Azov): I couldn't find their program anymore (they've been changing their websites around) so here's the manifesto of its leader Biletsky instead: https://web.archive.org/web/20140924041340/http://rid.org.ua/knigarnya/…

- Sergey's group (OUN): https://web.archive.org/web/20221005160233/http://oun.org.ua/programa-d…

Now what is the political program of the US military, or the German military, or the Spanish military? That's right, they have none, because those are State armies and not the paramilitary wings of specific political groups. Again, we're not talking about State armies that have individual fascist members, we're talking about the paramilitary wings of fascist political groups.

EmmaAintDead Sat, 12/28/2024 - 17:04

In reply to by Tim Declercq (not verified)

The US military does not have a political program? That's gonna be great news to quite a few targeted nations as well as a couple million active uniforms.

"we are not talking about state armies that have individual fascist members" -- Yes. Yes you are.

Pravy Sektor VOLS were absorbed by the state army 2+ years ago. They are the 67th Separate Mechanized Brigade.
Azov Battalion was absorbed by the state via the Offensive Guard initiative and is now the 12th Special Operations Brigade "Azov".
The OUN's UPA hasn't operated in any capacity since the 1950s/60s on account of the whole war crimes thing, most of their paramilitary might ended up over at Right Sektor (therefore, 67SMB)

Now, you've got USMC scout snipers getting SS bolt tattoos, AWD and The Base were such big deals because of the amount of active marines in them, you've got Italian generals calling for an end to the "brainwashing that eliminates differences between ethnicities," there's a flare up about every 2 years over Spanish soldiers going Islamophobia Mad. These are commonplace ideas within and throughout these militaries. State forces expressing these ideas openly and frequently just like Azov and Right Sektor VOLs are and do.

Not all of those who are in Azov have chosen to be in 12th Spec Op Azov. Not all of those in the 67SMB have chosen to be there, either. They are placed there by the state just like a Marine would be placed in 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force.

The association is not equivalent to an endorsement. The boots in Azov in 2024/25 are no more likely to be fascist than the boots in The Big Red One.

anon (not verified) Sun, 12/29/2024 - 01:13

In reply to by EmmaAintDead

This is a lie. The same Azov still has its own political leadership and its own recruitment and training service. They are autonomous in choosing who they take into their unit. The entire top command staff of the brigade consists of old and well-known Nazis. And they do not hide it, you know. On August 24, 2024, Azov, as a "Ukrainian right-wing movement in the defense forces", took part in the international conference of right-wing organizations of Europe in Lviv.

Tim Declercq (not verified) Sun, 12/29/2024 - 02:08

In reply to by anon (not verified)

By Emma's argument Azov would never have been a fascist group because from the first moment of their existence they were integrated in the official State structures - they started out as a unit of the newly-founded Special Tasks Patrol Police under the Ministry of Internal Affairs back in 2014. One would surely hope anarchists are smarter than thinking that fascist paramiltary groups magically stop being fascist paramilitary groups merely because they get integrated whole into the official State structures, especially when they retain their political independence, their own political programs, and their own political leadership.

Tim Declercq (not verified) Sun, 12/29/2024 - 01:47

In reply to by EmmaAintDead

"The US military does not have a political program?"

Feel free to share these political programs of US military units then.

"Pravy Sektor VOLS were absorbed by the state army 2+ years ago."

As if bringing a fascist militia group under central command stops it from being a fascist militia group.

"The OUN's UPA hasn't operated in any capacity since the 1950s/60s on account of the whole war crimes thing, most of their paramilitary might ended up over at Right Sektor (therefore, 67SMB)"

The OUN militia, Sergey's group, is right here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083362951353 Why are you bringing the 1950s/60s into this?

"Now, you've got USMC scout snipers getting SS bolt tattoos, AWD and The Base were such big deals because of the amount of active marines in them"

Ok, please share the political program of the USMC scout snipers, I'd like to read it. We'll discuss further after I had a chance to review the USMC scout snipers political program.

CalvinSmith (not verified) Sun, 12/29/2024 - 03:57

In reply to by Tim Declercq (not verified)

states tends to put money and interest in resources above politics, and the government formats that tend to facilitate this are:

-U.S. friendly dictatorships

-U.S. friendly "democracies"

in other words, the exact nature of the state ideology doesn't really matter much to the U.S. forces, and I would be skeptical that the political ideas of nation states are ever the end goal for the higher ups in the military. Ukranian anarchist fighters will band together with fascists to beat the russians, but what will come of the anarchist militants when they finally do? I'm very interested in seeing what Trump is going to do with the Ukraine war (even though i have no hopes that it will be anything good at all, and especially not anything anarchists would commend him for...)

Tim Declercq (not verified) Sun, 12/29/2024 - 04:24

In reply to by CalvinSmith (not verified)

You are missing my point, the United States may follow a political program, but *individual units of the US military* dp not have their own independent political programs, they simply enact whatever policy is decided by the US government. This is what's different about the paramilitary wings of fascist political groups in Ukraine which were mentioned in the article, which have their own independent political programs, independent from the policy of the Ukrainian government. Emma comparing Azov, Pravy Sektor, or the OUN to the USMC scout snipers is comparing apples and oranges, which is easily demonstrated by simply asking to see the political program of the USMC scout snipers - which of course doesn't exist.

Tim Declercq (not verified) Sun, 12/29/2024 - 04:32

In reply to by CalvinSmith (not verified)

"Ukranian anarchist fighters will band together with fascists to beat the russians"

And again we get this ad nauseam repetition of the tall tale that people like Petrovichev are supposedly anarchists who banded together with fascists to beat the russians, even though the article as well as the comment section here has already proven this false. Fascists band together with other fascists because they're fascists, that's all there is to it, that's why it's so easy to find him having been doing this for over a decade before this invasion even started. Why do people insist on continuing to spread this supposed "justification"?

CalvinSmith (not verified) Sun, 12/29/2024 - 04:52

In reply to by Tim Declercq (not verified)

between paramilitary and military is very thin, and political programs are superficial and normally don't accomplish their goals.

"...even though the article as well as the comment section here has already proven this false."

How the fuck can article prove anything at all? There's no meaningful distinction between armed forces working for a liberal nation state and fascists: what are you trying to say? That these fascists you are supposedly fighting are working for a particular right-wing politician? What the fuck are you saying?

CalvinSmith (not verified) Sun, 12/29/2024 - 04:59

In reply to by CalvinSmith (not verified)

and how does any of our comment section jibberish prove anything either?

On an apparently separate issue:

Btw, i was reading your website, and information about your "Free Union". So you mean to tell me that you started some vapid organization about spreading "equality" and class politics, and you are now surprised your efforts are being polarized by vegan puritans and academic wokeness? Your whole "Vrije Bond" project seems totally silly to me, it doesn't seem like you are really challenging your enemies or putting up much of a fight.

I have never understood why marxists have perpetuated this notion that somehow identity politics are inferior to class "warfare"...

Tim Declercq (not verified) Sun, 12/29/2024 - 05:20

In reply to by CalvinSmith (not verified)

"how the fuck can an article prove anything at all and how does any of our comment section jibberish prove anything either?"

Easy, as I already pointed out, if you bothered to look at the publication date of Sergey's photos banding together with Maxim Martsinkevich under the White Rex banner, you'd see it was uploaded in September 2020 which is well over a year before this Russian invasion even started. Thereby proving your claim of it being "Ukrainian anarchist fighters banding together with fascists to beat the russians" false. Unless you want to suggest that Sergey has mastered the art of time travel?

"i was reading your website"

I do not have a website.

"your "Free Union" {...} Your whole "Vrije Bond" project"

Not my project.

"you started some vapid organization about spreading "equality" and class politics"

What are you even talkng about here? You seem to have an issue with reading comprehension.

anon (not verified) Sun, 12/29/2024 - 05:41

In reply to by Tim Declercq (not verified)

problem with reading comprehension: i was never claiming that anarchist fighting in the military was meaningfully different fascism, that's all you and your tirades.

Your other article mentions the other fucking project: don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Tim Declercq (not verified) Sun, 12/29/2024 - 06:03

In reply to by anon (not verified)

Dude, you literally commented "Ukranian anarchist fighters will band together with fascists to beat the russians" under an article that outright proved that these fighters were already banding together with fascists long before they were to "beat the russians". Then you claimed that you were reading my website, even though I don't have a website, claimed I "started some vapid organization about spreading "equality" and class politics", no idea what that's even about, and claimed that Vrije Bond was my project, even though it totally isn't nor did I ever claim or suggest otherwise.

And now you claim something about my "other article" suggesting that I wrote multiple articles, even though I only ever wrote a single article on this website. You do realize that the article you're now commenting under isn't mine, right? It's written by Lukas Borl, a Czech anarchist.

The article I did write, about the black-brown surge in Belgium/Netherlands, did mention a project of mine, the CNT-b. Is that what you're calling a "vapid organization about spreading "equality" and class politics"? What the fuck would you know about that?

CalvinSmith (not verified) Sun, 12/29/2024 - 17:06

In reply to by Tim Declercq (not verified)

i woke up very early and confused this article with the other one posted on here. However, I should point out, that your claim that the "anarchist" element of any of this is just a hoax (and the paramilitaries of Ukraine are only fascist ideologically), APPEARS to be false:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_Defence_Forces_(Ukraine)

https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/the-facts-on-de-nazifying-ukraine/

The photos above and claims you make appear to show that right wing paramilitary people were being falsely attributed as anarchists, and this does not surprise me, on this site i have seen glowing evidence of people wanting to claim Ukraine paramilitary effort as anarchistm, and anarchist duty. However, the nazi elements of the paramilitary folk are a small percentage of paramilitaries, and an even smaller percentage of Ukrainian public opinion. Also, that other link shows evidence of a small Ukraine paramilitary faction, and it seems they have been working with Azov's nazi and anti-semitic (anti-roma, "gypsy") division. I have also learned through research that Azov's faction is mostly not right wing, but that could be false, it could be a white-washing by Azov.

It seems silly to me that so many anarchists internally are laying some sort of moral claim to the Ukraine struggle, this has bothered me right from the start.

Tim Declercq (not verified) Mon, 12/30/2024 - 18:09

In reply to by CalvinSmith (not verified)

"your claim that the "anarchist" element of any of this is just a hoax (and the paramilitaries of Ukraine are only fascist ideologically), APPEARS to be false:"

Where do you see me - or the article's author Lukas Borl - make such a claim? This article concerns 3 people, Yuri Samoylenko, Roman Lehar, and Sergey Petrovichev. They fought in Right Sector, Azov, and OUN respectively. Nobody is saying that *all* Ukrainian military units are ideologically fascist, merely that *these 3 specific ones* are.

Similarly, in my own article on this website about the black-brown resurgence in Belgium/Netherlands you will see that at no point am I saying that *no* anarchists may be fighting in Ukraine, or that *all* Ukrainian military units are politically fascist, but also merely that *some specific ones* are. By and large the same specific ones that Lukas Borl is talking about, such as Sergey Petrovichev and Yuri Samoylenko. Something you could easily see if you read the (censored) texts on the Dutch Indymedia that my article links to, where you can easily see that just like Lukas' text it talks about *very specific* individuals and groups and makes no general claims about "all Ukrainian military units" whatsoever.

anon (not verified) Sun, 12/29/2024 - 08:52

In reply to by Tim Declercq (not verified)

- To be integrating Neonazi militias in the military as divisions doesn't mean to be erasing them... especially when they are keeping their insignias and some of officers/cult leaders. It's more a matter of PR and convenience, both for NATO militaries

- Those Neonazi formations have not disappeared, besides Pravy Sektor having been eradicated when Russia took over Mariupol. It's not the Ukrainian military that erased them, but the Russian military.

- Like other commenter said, the US military is more of a technocratic army, and its ideology are that of the US government. The fact Far Right ideological fanatics COVERTLY infiltrated its ranks for decades doesn't make it any more a fascist White supremacist army than that of any other developed country.

- The Marine Corps scout snipers SS thing caused a controversy back in 2012 and that was just over a group photo op, and US officials had to damage-control it, while condemning this stuff. US having the second biggest Jewish population in the world... how can you expect a military division officially using that symbol? lol

anon (not verified) Sun, 12/29/2024 - 08:57

In reply to by anon (not verified)

"both for NATO militaries..." having to work with them openly instead of working with known fascist militias, while asserting full command over these thugs from the top of the Ukrainian military.

(my keyboard's doing weird things sometimes. must be the h4XX0r l33t)

CalvinSmith (not verified) Sun, 12/29/2024 - 03:50

In reply to by EmmaAintDead

military panderers like Wayne and the people who call themselves "anti-fa": there's a huge resistance when it comes to applying their logic in other directions and other situations, which is something I would think a militant anarchist would not be afraid to do. To me, theorizing is just as much a survival strategy as it is a form of entertainment.

alex (not verified) Sun, 12/29/2024 - 07:31

In reply to by EmmaAintDead

i think you're conflating the technocratic nature or design of the u.s. military with the ukrainian one, which is leading you to take at face value their propagandists' claims to have been "depoliticized" because integrated into the regular army. if the base or awd were recognized and integrated by the marines it would raise some eyebrows to say the least. i thought it was pretty amazing when the new york times ran with the story that all the actual nazis died heroically at mariupol and the new azov was just totally normal soldier guys keeping the name to honor them or whatever, just absurd theater

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