• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    “The changes posed by drones are so fast that concepts we implemented just a month ago no longer work now,” said an infantry battalion commander, whose call sign is “Cuba”, with the 13th Khartiia brigade.

    Khartiia is one of two fascist corps btw, it’s not a brigade. The National Guard of Ukraine was recently reorganised into two 15,000 member Corps. One is Azov Corps (azov brigade no longer exists and is now a much larger fascist-led corps) and the other is Khartiia, also fascist-led.

    Here is a picture of a Khartiia ceremony.

    This interview is conducted with fascists.

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      The National Guard of Ukraine was recently reorganised into two 15,000 member Corps

      that’s about division size, unless ukraine uses smaller size for corps
      2 fash divisions making up the national guard corps

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        Ahh yes i stand corrected, either way not a brigade anymore. 2*15,000 fascists running are the entire national guard and they perform the same role the SS performed, they are not frontline deployed.

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      Just like clockwork, the fascists took the opportunity of the crisis to place themselves closer to power. Expect these two factions to make light work of any post-war government

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        I’m quite sure that they’re a major component of the problem for bringing an end to the war. How do you form a post-war government when there’s a 30,000 strong national guard of fascists that will coup it immediately?

        The only way to bring peace to Ukraine is to eliminate the organisations of nazis. This guard will need to be disbanded as part of the peace agreements and then any insurgency they hold will need to be fought to destruction.

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          absolutely. If Russia’s “denazification” rhetoric were to be believed (which we shouldn’t believe at face value) then this should be a shared goal between Zelensky and Putin. Especially if the former wants to survive the war with his head.

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            I don’t believe that zelensky hasn’t joined those circles as a result of the war tbh, maybe he’s not authentically fascist but he could certainly have joined them opportunistically or simply because it’s so normalised in Ukraine.

            That time he said he wanted Ukraine to be Big Israel was an eye opener for me that he’s worse than people realise.

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              Yeah there’s either a part of him giving into the fascist elements out of terror that they may punish him after the fact, or because the typical opportunist liberalism kicked in and he’s convinced that he can tame the Nazis

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                Or just the usual liberalism conforming to the dominant culture in society. A liberal could very easily rationalise ultranationalism as a necessary feature of the patriotic defence of the country.

                Someone here once wrote this passage on absorbomorphs and it always stuck with me:

                Liberals entire thing is “uphold the status quo”. This is the position of pretty much every single politically illiterate liberal who really doesn’t understand what any ideology actually is. They change their shape in order to fit themselves into whatever the existing social paradigm is.

                This is why LGBT people got absolutely nowhere with liberals until they literally bullied them with riots and pride parades saying a big visible fuck you to everyone that ever tried to make them invisible. They could not be asked to change they had to be bullied and forced. Once the social paradigm is changed they then accept it.

                This is why anger and cancelling on twitter became a thing. It bullied liberals into new social paradigms.

                This is why it works for dirtbag leftists.

                And this is why they picked up guns and shot at whoever the nazis told them to shoot at. Not because they were true believers. But because mussolini or hitler and every other fascist simply bullies them into a new social paradigm… and once the paradigm is changed they accept it.

                Liberals are absorbomorphs. Their ideology is absorbomorphism.

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      What is that ominous symbol on their flags? I can only assume it’s something fashy like the wolfsangle, but I don’t recognize it.

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    Love the propaganda around Russia. In one source they’re saying the Russian army is direly undermechanized and using wheelbarrows and horses for miles for logistics and the Russian army will soon collapse, and the other source says there’s hyper deadly drone swarms and the end is nigh

    I’m just like ok look at the map seems Russia has the most territory so… 🤷‍♀️