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Glenn Greenwald

Whatever your views on Ukraine, the war and the US role: it's just amazing that the Western press -- which spent a full decade in unison calling the Azov Battalion neo-Nazi fanatics -- now speak of them in admiring terms and will only say that their Nazism is a "Russian claim."

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Ukraine's Azov commander says civilians, heavily wounded evacuated from Mariupol plant reut.rs/3PBTfCr

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Glenn Greenwald

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The first 3 images: how

itself described Azov prior to the Russian invasion: as a dangerous neo-Nazi menace. The last image:

today saying that such descriptions (its own) are merely Russian assertions.

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Here's is a video on Azov's neo-Nazism from

- the most mainstream, inoffensive outlet that does nothing but channel conventional wisdom - from **2021**: last year! If you say this today, you're a Kremlin propagandist. That's a Ministry of Truth:

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TIME

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Like, share, recruit: How a white-supremacist militia uses Facebook to radicalize and train new members ti.me/3qr2Oqn

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This was from the US Security State-supported

in 2019, warning that the Ukrainian neo-Nazi group called the Azov Battalion was becoming a rallying cry for neo-Nazis throughout the West. Again, saying this now means you're a Kremlin asset. bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu

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Here's an op-ed in the NYT in 2020 -- just 2 years ago -- by former Congressman Max Rose and FBI agent Ali Soufan which, in the second paragraph, notes that FBI considers Azov "'a paramilitary unit' notorious for its 'association with neo-Nazi ideology.'" nytimes.com/2020/02/11/opi

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That op-ed also notes that Azov has been training neo-Nazis around the world. The murderer who carried out the New Zealand massacre at 2 mosques, Brenton Tarrant, claims he trained with Azov. Tarrant was the number 1 hero to the Buffalo murderer, who wore Azov's Black Sun.

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Again, none of this means you should have one view or the other about the US role. But the immediate whitewashing and historical revisionism in the Western press on behalf of Azov is chilling. And, yes, we should be concerned if weapons are going to them.

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What happens to weapons sent to Ukraine? The US doesn't really know

The US has few ways to track the substantial supply of anti-tank, anti-aircraft and other weaponry it has sent across the border into Ukraine, sources tell CNN, a blind spot that's due in large part...

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As I was saying... - I could do this all day, every day.

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More here on the article from

-- the bastion of Western conventional wisdom -- about the dangers and neo-Nazism of Azov from **2021**. The primary function of Orwell's Ministry of Truth was to instantly re-write history and facts to serve war aims.

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Michael Tracey

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· May 15

Last year TIME Magazine published an article about Azov Battalion's "unrivaled" role in transnational white supremacist extremism networks -- and that the New Zealand mosque shooter displayed their Nazi-derived symbol. So did the Buffalo shooter. Will there be any note of this?

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The trajectory of the Squad and many (not all) of their left-wing followers:

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2016: punch a nazi. 2022: arm a nazi. twitter.com/ggreenwald/sta…

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They just can’t be consistent about anything

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Nicholas Lagano

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Western press is now a euphemism for anti Western propaganda. Sadly.

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“…our Nazi sources say” -Reuters

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Yep. Incredible.

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Paul Burrer

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From 2014: #Ukrainian "journalist" Bogdan Boutkevitch: You need to kill 1.5 million people (Russian speakers) in #Donbas . They are "superfluous". --------------- Westerners: This war didn't start when *you* became aware of it in 2022. youtu.be/S9SOVarOFJk via @YouTube

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Leonardo Volco Lima

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Glen what do you think about todays reunion musk bolsonaro?

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yea it's weird how the dichotomy changes back and forth when it's convenient.

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in my life, I’ve never seen levels of propaganda like this- the more that they are revealed, the crazier they get.

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Your life’s work is valid and amazing! Keep trucking

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@JohnGil39802277

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It’s important to establish a good guy/bad guy narrative

@stevent26796521

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Funny how this link is banned because it shows how we’re arming card carrying nazis! Liberals and conservatives both are ok with this as long it serves to the military industrial complex.

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