US intelligence: Russia plans to attack Ukraine early next year

Jonathan Whatley · May 19, 2022

In the Jewish magazine Tablet, Jewish writer Vladislav Davidzon, the magazine's European culture correspondent, defends the Azov Battalion today against accusations based on its early history:

It is indisputable that Azov was home to all sorts of nasty characters when it was first founded, and like many fighting forces (including America’s), it doubtless still contains some white supremacists, racists, and chauvinists today. But it is no longer a practically or ideologically racist organization, any more than the U.S. Army could still be called segregated after 1948. I myself have drunk with Scandinavian former volunteer members of Azov—they were Pagans and Odinists, and had the rune tattoos to show for it. A Swedish sniper who had served in the battalion once told me that his experience in the unit, which included service alongside ethnic Greek, Turkish, Georgian, and Azerbaijani soldiers, transformed him from a white racist into a conservative nationalist—progress! A Donbas-born Jewish political consultant with whom I regularly drink in Kyiv remains a proud Azov reserve officer.

When I recently asked another Azov officer about the battalion’s reputation for racism, he objected to the premise. “We are not racists,” he insisted without irony. “We have right-wing patriots serving with us of every race! Every creed! Every color! Every religion!” But even the unit’s “right-wing” ideological heritage has diminished, as it’s been forced by circumstances to professionalize. If Azov began in 2014-15 by drawing in volunteers attracted to its ideology or reputation for fierce fighting ability, it now depends for recruits on allocations by the Interior Ministry, which tightly oversees its promotions and officer commissions.
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The Defenders of Mariupol: Branding the Azov Battalion as ‘neo-Nazi’ long after it shed its far-right origins is part of a deafening corruption of public discourse (Vladislav Davidzon, Tablet, May 17, 2022)

Rich Douglas · May 19, 2022

When you can't fight an actual war, you can always resort to mass murder.

Lerner · Dec 5, 2022

Explosion at Nuclear Airbase Just 150 Miles From Moscow
Opens Stunning New Phase of War
https://www.yahoo.com/news/explosion-nuclear-airbase-just-150-140030278.html

"Barbie Latza Nadeau
Mon, December 5, 2022 at 9:00 AM

Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters
Two explosions at major Russian military bases, including the Dyagilevo base near Ryazan just 150 miles from Moscow, mean the war in Ukraine has come right to Vladimir Putin’s doorstep.

The explosions—which were unmanned drone strikes, a senior Ukrainian official told The New York Times—suggest Ukraine wanted to strike fear right in the heart of Russia.

The second explosion struck the Engels-2 base, from which Tu-95 bombers have been pummeling Ukraine’s infrastructure over the last month.

Engels and Ryazan are around 300 to 450 miles from the Ukrainian border, which is beyond the range of any known missiles in Ukraine’s possession, the Times reported."

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