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Oh dear…

One wonders if Col Andrew Milburn, part of the ‘Mozart group’ training soldiers in Ukraine, will have a job to go back to after this pod cast interview. Getting sloppy and leaking what is widely reported on outside the NATOstan media echo chamber will not endear him to his bosses at state or CIA (economic assistance and payments have always been murky in this former Soviet kleptocracy so I’m not sure of the funding of this Mozart group).

‘Ukraine is a f#cked up country run by f#cked up people’

I believe Mac Blumenthal has received the scarlet letter of the PMC class for doing honest investigative journalism that cuts against their State/CIA fed narratives. He’s also had the honor of being on the Ukrainian Regimes kill list for his efforts. Nothing new here. US media always does the bidding of the war machine.

Memories…,

Anywho..
This is nice:

Quoting Ukrainian ultra-nationalist and antisemite Stepan Bandera, the Ukrainian parliament on Monday declared that “the complete and supreme victory of Ukrainian nationalism will be when the Russian Empire ceases to exist.”
“Currently, the struggle with the Russian Empire continues,” the Verkhovna Rada posted on its official Twitter account, stating that Ukrainian Army Chief of Staff Valerii Zaluzhnyi was “well aware” of “these instructions of Stepan Bandera.”

Victory to Come When Russian Empire 'Ceases to Exist': Ukraine Parliament Quotes Nazi Collaborator

File this one under Nazi sympathizers. But I dunno. Maybe we all have a little sympathy for the devil. So long as it’s convenient and comfortable and doesn’t doesn’t ask much in the immediate.

Once upon a time, the alt-left was VERY ANGRY at Obama for using drones during a war.
Then Trump was president and the alt-left became very very quiet about drones even though Trump vastly expanded their use and allowed civilian deaths to go through the roof, the very things the alt-left said they were VERY ANGRY about during Obama's presidency.

After that, Biden became president and the alt-left was, once again, VERY ANGRY about the use of drones. But Biden ended the war in Afghanistan and we are not slaughtering civilians by the hundreds like we were under Trump. Drones stopped being a convenient avenue of attack on the president.

Fast forward a little more and we see Russia deploying drones on a massive scale to kill civilians and destroy Ukrainian infrastructure with the explicit goal of murdering millions through exposure and deprivation.
Where are the protests from the alt-left against this cruel abuse of drones? Nowhere to be found. The silence is absolute and deafening.

I am opposed to weaponized drones. The more we use them, the more likely it is that we will bring them home and unleash them on the American public. There is a true debate to held around this.
But that is not the debate the alt-left is interested in.
They only care about drones when a Democrat is president and they can score political points. If you only care about an issue when it can be used as a weapon, you don't really care about it at all. You're just another f*cking hypocrite.

The alt-left uses drones the exact same way Republicans use the debt and abortion: A cudgel to attack Democrats.
(Justin Rosario)

FILED UNDER: Responses to Putin's statement that Ukraine is not and never was an actual country, etc.

I’m glad you got that weird internal personal argument cleared up with yourself.

Sheesh… almost sounds like a wHaTaboUtisM going on there.

Maybe the chicken hawks shouldn’t have provoked this war with Russia they’ve had a hard on for since Obama.

Oh well. Hacks always have excuses for their crappy performances. When this latest neocon boondoggle backfires, I’ll expect the reflexive left punching to only get more shrill than this post from those camps. As if there were any political left in this country wielding any political influence. Nah, this is a rightwing led boondoggle with full support of the PMC’s and their cornball excuses for why they couldn’t get their neocon mother goddess over the finish line in 16.

But don’t worry. There’ll always be China to move onto, maybe another Iron Sheikh again from these hysterics.

Dear all who think we're risking WW3 with Russia by helping Ukraine:
When (IF) Russia succeeds in erasing Ukraine, would you bet money that Russia will STOP at Ukraine?
I'll bet money AND MY LIFE that they will not, and that's because I am older than dirt and I remember personally watching them do exactly that in 1961.

I do not believe that USA withdrawing aid to Ukraine would prevent a possible WW3 scenario either.
If Russia is bent on biting off Ukraine and clawing it back, it signals their willingness to continue biting and clawing back until all of Eastern Europe is under their jackboot.
And that WILL create a very distinct chance of a WW3 scenario, one which I daresay would be much worse.

Latest news, Ramzan Kadyrov has promised that he is more than ready to send Chechen fighters to America if Putin gives the order.
Gosh, I almost wish that he would try, but my own amusement fantasies aside, let's analyze this.

It almost sounds like the bluffing cry of a small handful of frightened kids who thought they were just going to do some warrior cosplay, what with all the recent talk of nukes, taking the war to America and what not.

To be clear, I know we've experienced the horror of a radicalized leader sending individual terrorists to our shores, we all saw 9/11 with our own eyes. The difference is, this time we have someone who takes these threats very seriously.

Link to HIGH REZ version:
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The MAP is sketchy as hell but the points stand on their own.

Aside from being a notorious, avowed Nazi known for killing a puppy and posting bragging photographs about it on social media, Milchakov is the head of a Russian paramilitary group known as Rusich, which openly embraces Nazi symbolism and radical racist ideologies. The group, and Milchakov himself, have been credibly linked to atrocities in Ukraine and in Syria.

Along with members of the Russian Imperial Movement, a white supremacist group that was designated a "global terrorist" organization by the United States two years ago, Rusich is one of several right-wing groups that are actively fighting in Ukraine, in conjunction with Russia’s regular armed forces or allied separatist units.
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The Rusich group was formally founded as the Sabotage and Assault Reconnaissance Group Rusich in St. Petersburg in 2014.

Both Milchakov and Petrovsky fought against Ukraine as volunteers in the Donbas in 2014 and 2015 and have openly displayed patches awarded to them as part of the "Union of Donbas Volunteers.” At the time, however, Russia repeatedly denied its forces were fighting in the Donbas, asserting, while often straining credulity, that the local forces battling Ukrainian troops were merely local partisans.

Who Are The Neo-Nazis Fighting For Russia In Ukraine?

But sure, let's talk some more about how Ukraine needs denazification.

The Changing Face of Azov

Washington Post: Ukraine’s Azov brigade races to rebuild ahead of fateful fight


Earlier this year, Meta, the parent company for Facebook, removed Azov from a list of dangerous individuals and organizations, citing a distinction between the military group and the political movement.

Despite Azov’s apparent evolution, it receives virtually no weaponry from Western nations including the United States.