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PROVEN NAZIS : THE UKRAINE MILITARY ARE NAZIS

1. Fullgoldcrown says:

   June 8, 2023 - 10:31 am at 10:31 am

   ? It’s getting hard to keep up with them all. A second, now-confirmed conspiracy fact appeared in the New York Times Monday, in a wild article headlined “Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History.”

   Uh-oh!

   Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking about how Joe Biden laughed like a braying donkey when a reporter questioned Ukrainian Nazis, and about how the Times itself has repeatedly promised you that there are no Nazis in Ukraine, zip, zero, not even one, because Putin. Putin is the real Nazi, if anybody is, they said. Stop spreading misinformation, they said.

   Listen. This story isn’t about Ukrainian Nazis, not really, nor about the inconvenient fact Putin has apparently been telling the truth since Day Zero. (Don’t fret about that, scum like Putin don’t deserve apologies.) No. This story is about how the fact that Ukrainians love Nazis might somehow help the Russians. And that’s all it is about.

   The sub-headline told the Times’ readers how they should interpret this potentially-troubling news:

   Gosh. It’s so aggravating! The Ukrainians aren’t fitting the Times’ carefully-crafted noble-war narrative! The Times’ reporter struggled as best he could to find a way to shade the news. Using terms like “thorny,” “unfortunate,” and “bad optics,” the paper gently and carefully conceded that a lot of Ukrainian soldiers’ uniforms do, in fact, proudly sport Nazi swastikas and other appalling Third Reich imagery.

   But see, they’re not “real” Nazis, no. Here’s how the Times explained it:

   The iconography of these groups, including a skull-and-crossbones patch worn by concentration camp guards and a symbol known as the Black Sun, now appears with some regularity on the uniforms of soldiers fighting on the front line, including soldiers who say the imagery symbolizes Ukrainian sovereignty and pride, not Nazism.
   The “Black Sun” symbol is also known as a Sonnenrad. It first popped up in the castle of occultist Heinrich Himmler, the infamous Nazi general and SS leader. According to the Times, these days the Black Sun is popular among neo-Nazis and white supremacists … and Ukrainians.

   But… it’s just Pride! Not fun leather festival rainbow pride, silly. The boot-in-your-face, Zyklon-B shower, skinheaded Neo-Nazi kind. The reporter didn’t even TRY to connect the roots of “Ukrainian sovereignty and pride” to the concentration camp guard logos and occult Black Sun icons. They just said it, ipse dixit, pouring the hyper-processed lie into the Times’ jingoistic dog food bowl, for their credulous readers to lap up.

   Slurp, slurp.

   It must have been a difficult assignment. One suspects the reporter who wrote the story must have pulled the short straw or was late on one deadline too many or something, but the Times has finally been forced to concede, reluctantly, that after all it’s not just a random fringe soldier here or there. The official state Ministry of Defense is loving up some Nazi, too:

   In April, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry posted a photograph on its Twitter account of a soldier wearing a patch featuring a skull and crossbones known as the Totenkopf, or Death’s Head. The specific symbol in the picture was made notorious by a Nazi unit that committed war crimes and guarded concentration camps during World War II.
   The patch in the photograph sets the Totenkopf atop a Ukrainian flag with a small No. 6 below.
   Possibly the most disgraceful part of the story was when the Times admitted that news rooms are regrettably being forced, with public relations guns held to their temples, to often delete or clean up photos of Ukrainian soldiers and allied militants. “The photographs, and their deletions, highlight the Ukrainian military’s complicated relationship with Nazi imagery, a relationship forged under both Soviet and German occupation during World War II,” the article explained.

   Faking photos? I mean, what are they SUPPOSED to do? It’s very, very complicated.

   Now, don’t focus on the captured media’s manipulation of the news, the crafting of its preferred narrative, a narrative wholly inconsistent with truth, the lying, the fakery, or the disgusting shredding of journalistic ethics in a jingoistic bloodbath where slavish, collaborating reporters enjoy the fruits of their voluntary enslavement, dribbled down to them from their warmongering government masters.

   Ignore all of that the same way the government ignores Nazis when it wants to:

   We can learn much from this article about how the captured media shapes narratives for its government overlords. Is it JUST the lying? The photo editing? Or, are they more active? How dirty do they get their hands? Read this next paragraph from the Times’ totally un-self-aware article, and tell me what you think:

   In November, during a meeting with Times reporters near the front line, a Ukrainian press officer wore a Totenkopf variation made by a company called R3ICH (pronounced “Reich”). He said he did not believe the patch was affiliated with the Nazis. A second press officer present said other journalists had asked soldiers to remove the patch before taking photographs.
   They’re telling subjects how to dress and what to hide! That’s not just misreporting the news. That’s shaping the news.

   Reading the article, one notes the utter lack of any attempt at all to interview the actual Nazis who are wearing the swastikas, skull logos, or other Third Reich gear. Who cares what THEY think? Instead, the Times interviewed a bunch of experts to tell readers what the Nazi soldiers were ‘really’ thinking.

   A moment’s reflection exposes how hilariously easily the captured media discovers Nazi imagery when it wants to. Remember this great example? It’s from way, way back in 2021:

   A stage shaped like a swastika! That’s DEFINITELY Nazi, the very worst kind, to the captured media, that is. But how about ACTUAL swastika patches and ubiquitous logos ACTUALLY IDENTICAL TO the ones the German Nazis wore inside the concentration camps?

   Well, that’s complicated. We shouldn’t jump to conclusions. Cultural norms, and so forth.

   When there’s a proxy war on, the captured media becomes more … flexible. And understanding. Not to mention open-minded. The Times generously found that explicit Ukrainian Nazi imagery isn’t automatically hate speech, not necessarily, not really, not like when a Republican stage is loosely shaped like a swastika when you look at it from the right angle:

   In the American South, some have insisted that today, the Confederate flag symbolizes pride, not its history of racism and secession. The swastika was an important Hindu symbol before it was co-opted by the Nazis… the symbols [have] meanings … unique to Ukraine and should be interpreted by how Ukrainians view[] them, not by how they [have] been used elsewhere.
   A Hindu symbol! They’re probably Hindus!

   Um, but what about all that other stuff? Is the Death’s Head logo Hindu, too? What about the Black Sun?

   As you can tell, I’m having a great time sarcastically pointing out the Times’ double-, triple-, or quadruple-standards. But it’s really worse than that. The Times itself castigated the Ukrainian military as being packed with Nazis only a few years ago, as recently as 2019. One wonders whether the average Times reader has an effective attention span longer than a cocker spaniel.

   Finally, this story also passes our new fake news test. It’s old news, only recently admitted, and it is controversial and inflammatory. Therefore it’s propaganda. So … why now? What are they trying to distract us from? Is it part of the strategy to give the Biden Administration cover for another Afghanistan-like “retreat?”

   That makes TWO conspiracy theories that graduated today