Heraldry is pedantic in the extreme. Small details matter. The Nazi symbol is not a crowned lion. It's a lion surrounded by three crowns. I'm not willing to shoot the guy over this unless there's other corroborating evidence. I'll accept he's a Ukrainian nationalist but I'd need something else to suggest he's a Nazi.
You ever hear of a dog whistle, Frank? You must be aware of the concept. It's when you do something that nobody else recognizes as a signal apart from the intended audience. Plausible deniability is the point.
If they wanted everyone to know they'd just wear swastikas. Do you think it's a complete coincidence that thousands of white nationalists from around the entire world have been going to Ukraine for years?
Yes. I am aware of what a dog whistle is. The Rewhatever the fuck Lion has been a symbol of the region for over a thousand years. There are numerous variations. This is not the Nazi variation. This isn't like the Sonnenrad, or the Wolfsangle, or the life and death runes, or a million other little Nazi tricks. This is a Ukrainian mechanized infantry brigade that's been using the symbol for about thirty years since it's an ancient symbol representing the region where they are from. And unless you have some kind of evidence that there is more going on here, that this entire brigade is composed of Nazis instead of normal Western Ukrainians, you're not going to convince me to throw this guy up against a wall and shoot him in the head.
If the power-tripping nerd Reddit mod isn’t talking out of his ass, that patch is the insignia for the 24th Mechanized Brigade, whose predecessors fought under the Soviets against the Nazis.
They didn’t fight alongside Nazis until 2014, in the wake of Euromaidan. They have been shelling Donbas ever since.
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Edit: lmao, you linked that. Christ, this site sometimes.
Heraldry is pedantic in the extreme. Small details matter. The Nazi symbol is not a crowned lion. It's a lion surrounded by three crowns. I'm not willing to shoot the guy over this unless there's other corroborating evidence. I'll accept he's a Ukrainian nationalist but I'd need something else to suggest he's a Nazi.
You ever hear of a dog whistle, Frank? You must be aware of the concept. It's when you do something that nobody else recognizes as a signal apart from the intended audience. Plausible deniability is the point.
If they wanted everyone to know they'd just wear swastikas. Do you think it's a complete coincidence that thousands of white nationalists from around the entire world have been going to Ukraine for years?
Yes. I am aware of what a dog whistle is. The Rewhatever the fuck Lion has been a symbol of the region for over a thousand years. There are numerous variations. This is not the Nazi variation. This isn't like the Sonnenrad, or the Wolfsangle, or the life and death runes, or a million other little Nazi tricks. This is a Ukrainian mechanized infantry brigade that's been using the symbol for about thirty years since it's an ancient symbol representing the region where they are from. And unless you have some kind of evidence that there is more going on here, that this entire brigade is composed of Nazis instead of normal Western Ukrainians, you're not going to convince me to throw this guy up against a wall and shoot him in the head.
Posted this in the other thread:
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Edit: lmao, you linked that. Christ, this site sometimes.