Loading ...First There Were Neo-Nazis, Then There Were No Nazis, Then There Were
…serving as a New York Times correspondent these days cannot be easy. You have to convey utter nonsense to your readers while maintaining a straight face and a serious demeanor…
You have to suggest the Russians may have exploded a drone over the Kremlin, that they may have blown up their own gas pipeline, that their president is an out-of-touch psychotic, that their soldiers in Ukraine are drunkards using faulty equipment, that they attack with “human hordes” (Orientalism, anyone?) and on and on – all the while affecting the gravitas once associated with the traditional “Timesman.” You try it sometime.
Tom’s job this week is to persuade us that all those Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi insignia, idolizing Jew-murdering, Russophobic collaborators with the Third Reich, gathering ritually in Nazi-inspired cabals, marching through Kyiv in Klan-like torch parades are not what you think. Nah, our Tom tells us. They look like neo–Nazis, they act like neo–Nazis, they dress like neo–Nazis, they profess Fascist and neo–Nazi ideologies, they wage this war with the Wehrmacht’s visceral hatred of Russians—O.K., but whyever would you think they are neo–Nazis?
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What have we been calling them from the start, Fully? Yup, nazis! What’s more, tenters know that nazis are national socialists, not far right ideologues as western socialists have always branded them. Look at the behaviour of western socialists in all the anglo countries these past few years. Look who supports the Ukronazis. Nazis are socialists, and socialists are nazis, even if they are too stupid to realize it.