KYIV, Ukraine — Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainian government and NATO allies have posted, then quietly deleted, three seemingly innocuous photographs from their social media feeds: a soldier standing in a group, another resting in a trench and an emergency worker posing in front of a truck. In each photograph, Ukrainians in uniform wore patches featuring symbols that were made notorious by Nazi Germany and have since become part of the iconography of far-

Get out your bingo cards for this one. I stopped after these five gave me an immediate win:

  • Bellingcat

  • "Ukraine is extra anti-nazi because they know what it's like to be occupied by them"

  • "But also they don't know these are nazi symbols"

  • "And pointing them out is Russian propaganda"

  • "And the idea that they're really just nazis like they say they are is nazi propaganda"

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  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Lmao speaking of Bellingcat, in the behind the bastards sub someone posted the nyt version of this "thorny issue" article and one poster complained about being called a Russian shill for bringing the topic up in the past and some shitlib went on a tirade about how even if it is the case it doesn't matter because what are you gonna do, quit arming them because some of the weapons find their way into Nazi hands?

    Like yes, you fucking Nazi supporter, a normal person would stop arming a group that was massively Nazi infested even if that was inconvenient to some of their political goals.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      But when has arming far-right paramilitaries because they happened to be fighting Russia at the time ever backfired for the US?

      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Lmao one of them claimed it's good because then Ukrainian Nazis and Russians are killing one another (which obviously is pretty bloodthirsty anyways) and it's astounding how they can just pretend that there will be a 100% mortality rate for the Nazis. Certainly a percentage of them won't survive and use all the weapons to arm new recruits or sell them to other European Nazi organizations or anything like that.

        The lack of foresight is almost supernatural.

        • BeamBrain [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          And "lack of foresight" is the charitable reading. I'm sure for many of them, the chance of armed Nazi terror cells arising at home is a feature rather than a bug.

        • anoncpc [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          This bunch is so dumb, just wait until a nazi fly a plane into their house in 5 to 10 years, they'll might use their brain a little, if they survive.