afaik the nazis are a small part of the ukrainian defense campaign, but god damn do they keep showing up *constantly* in variously supposedly-supportive propaganda and outreach efforts
that's fucked up, it's deeply fucked up, and i've hardly ever seen anyone grapple with it well
a lot of leftist criticism of this shit just falls down, too, like you've got people casually reposting shit from sputnik and relentlessly humping the term "proxy war" as a thought-terminating cliche
meanwhile an imperial power with state-mandated fox-news brain is churning out news reports about how their soldiers raided an lgbt charity and found a colored-pencil drawing of a trans woman on a poster, and that justifies their genocidal military campaign
a quirk of fascist nationalism is that it can grow through opposition as well as support —
the guys slapping sonnenrads and wolfsangels on everything are ideological allies of a sort even as they slaughter each other on the battlefield, because their battles serve to build up their respective nationalist death-squad movements as legitimate arms of the state, that they will then happily turn on their other designated enemies, both internal and external, when the current struggle has ended
Alex P. 👹
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