Kremlin papers appear to show Putin plot to put Trump in WH

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The term you used is a racist perjorative for people with european ancestry.

And no, we're not all aware of what you now claim you were referring to, or even whether that "explanation" for the use of the racist term is true.

I have never heard of someone with white hair or pale complexion being referred to as wh***y. I did however have a very distant relative years ago who was called wh***y because his surname was Dewitt.

Please folks - stick to the topic without using irrelevant asides that aren't needed to show your point. The international Scrabble authority recently removed a slew of about 400 words that are now considered undesirable and not even permitted in official games. Perhaps they went overboard, and there was a lot of resistance from around the world, but at least they were pretty consistent in removing ones that had even a remote possibility of offending sensitives across the board.

Thanks!

NBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent:


I'm not sure why he neglected to mention (or show) the instructor:


The patch may be perfectly innocent, but strangely, I was unable too find it listed even after looking through pages of Ukrainian military patches on both DDG and Google (I was also unable to find anything resembling the patch on his right arm, either, and there doesn't appear to be the Ukranian flag patch above it the patch on his left arm, which would be expected to be there)...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion

Looks like this one to me.

I will not use that word again, even though I had used it to describe Assange's hair and porcelain pale skin. C'mon, I'm a white guy myself!

Looks like this one to me.


Thank you for that - I had been able to zoom in on the badge and see the "A", but not read the rest, which would have helped track the unit down - I have no idea why this didn't appear in the searches I did for the badges\patches.

It's certainly an "interesting" battalion according to the link you provided - I wonder how representative of the Ukrainian armed forces (or population in general) they are.

So from this we are to conclude that anyone opposing Putin and Trump's agenda is a Nazi?

After accusing others of using this debating technique so many times?

They were there because of Rep. Max Rose, who represents New York’s 11th congressional district. He sent a letter on Oct. 16 to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, signed by 39 of his colleagues, demanding that several international far-right movements, including the Azov movement, be officially placed on the foreign terrorist organization list alongside the Islamic State and al Qaeda. The first group mentioned by name in Rose’s letter is the Azov movement, which, Rose writes, “has been recruiting, radicalizing and training American citizens for years.”

The goal of the letter seems apparent: to draw attention to international far-right extremist groups thought to be inciting acts of terrorism, a growing concern in the wake of the attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, and similar ones in El Paso, Texas, and Halle, Germany, among others.

But here in Ukraine, Rose’s efforts have backfired. The letter is sloppy, to the point where some of the claims in the letter, especially the claim that the Christchurch shooter admitted to training with Azov, are simply wrong. Yes, Azov is indeed a dangerous far-right movement with global ambitions, something I’ve argued a number of times. But Rose’s letter actually helps Azov’s cause.

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The reality here in Ukraine, however, is a bit more complicated. In a country still at war with Russian-led forces, veterans of all political stripes hold high stature in Ukrainian society. This includes veterans from the Azov Battalion, who are still thought of highly for the defense of cities like Mariupol in eastern Ukraine in 2014. It’s why their far-right, often outright neo-Nazi affiliations are considered secondary to their role as “defenders” and are often downplayed or ignored in mainstream Ukrainian politics and society.

It’s also why negative reaction to the letter in Ukraine has come from more than just Azov itself. Last week, Ukraine’s interior minister, Arsen Avakov—considered the de facto patron of the Azov movement—defended Azov in a meeting with American officials, calling the letter a “shameful information campaign” and claiming that Ukraine would “counter these dirty and insidious methods.”

Even parliamentarians from President Volodymyr Zelensky’s own party, which now dominates Ukraine’s parliament after July’s elections, has defended Azov. A letter signed by 39 Ukrainian MPs, mostly MPs from Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, and sent to the chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs said that “attempts to label one of the most decorated official units of the National Guard of Ukraine as a “terrorist organization” or an “overseas violent white supremacist extremist group” weigh heavily on our souls and painfully echo in the hearts of…Ukrainian servicemen, veterans and volunteers.” And outside the doors of the foreign ministry, Deputy Foreign Minister Vasyl Bodnar told representatives of Azov that “the Azov Regiment is a defender of Ukraine, not a terrorist organization.”

So from this we are to conclude that anyone opposing Putin and Trump's agenda is a Nazi?

After accusing others of using this debating technique so many times?