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Doug G's avatar

I know, right? It's so unfair what Zelensky and Ukraine are doing to mighty Russia, who's just trying to mind its own business within its own borders, and can't in any way be considered (in your words), "a corrupt, undemocratic one-party right-wing thug regime." (Clearly this is satire, folks.)

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Colette Wismer's avatar

Hah-hah, good one, Doug!

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John Schmeeckle's avatar

Perhaps others will be more inclined to check my sources.

Here's just one from the earlier list:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/12/20/ukra-d20.html

HCR wrote, "There are no good guys here." Zelensky’s right-wing thug regime is just as bad as "Corporate Joe" Biden's neo-fascist Vampire Liberals.

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

How's that knitting project going Ivan?

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John Schmeeckle's avatar

Miselle the Dog-Piler just showed up.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/

"Today, increasing reports of far-right violence, ultranationalism, and erosion of basic freedoms are giving the lie to the West’s initial euphoria. There are neo-Nazi pogroms against the Roma, rampant attacks on feminists and LGBT groups, book bans, and state-sponsored glorification of Nazi collaborators.

"These stories of Ukraine’s dark nationalism aren’t coming out of Moscow; they’re being filed by Western media, including US-funded Radio Free Europe (RFE); Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress and the Simon Wiesenthal Center; and watchdogs like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Freedom House, which issued a joint report warning that Kiev is losing the monopoly on the use of force in the country as far-right gangs operate with impunity."

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Bryan Sean McKown's avatar

No personsl attacks on a Reader period.

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Dave Dalton's avatar

John, do ya ever feel like I do when I write for Dave Fake News? Its fun, but its a spoof. Enjoy your chuckles

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Pat Cole's avatar

You dirty satirist, you.🦴🐶. The wrest of us are relegated to leftists and (gasp) snowflakes, but you, you had to become satire man. Have you heard from Saturday Night Live yet?

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Pat Cole's avatar

Ps. If you Schmeekle a little sand on your potatoes you’ll have true grit.

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FERN MCBRIDE (NYC)'s avatar

Thank you, Pat, for giving me a big, happy laugh. : - )

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Pat Cole's avatar

You are rockin today!

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John Schmeeckle's avatar

Apologists for Ukraine's neo-Nazi thug regime might chuckle, but this is serious:

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/

"Today, increasing reports of far-right violence, ultranationalism, and erosion of basic freedoms are giving the lie to the West’s initial euphoria. There are neo-Nazi pogroms against the Roma, rampant attacks on feminists and LGBT groups, book bans, and state-sponsored glorification of Nazi collaborators.

"These stories of Ukraine’s dark nationalism aren’t coming out of Moscow; they’re being filed by Western media, including US-funded Radio Free Europe (RFE); Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress and the Simon Wiesenthal Center; and watchdogs like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Freedom House, which issued a joint report warning that Kiev is losing the monopoly on the use of force in the country as far-right gangs operate with impunity."

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Dave Dalton's avatar

Neo Nazi’s in Ukraine? You mean like in the Trump Whitehouse support og “good people” chanting Blood and Soil? You mean like that?

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Elizabeth M. (Massachusetts)'s avatar

Dave, you’ve already got the higher ground. The troll wants oxygen. We can just ignore it.

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Bryan Sean McKown's avatar

That works but, many "report" to the Content Meditation Dept. I report to Substack Inc directly rgarding our contractually defined ' Readers' rights enforceable at JAMS SF per Substack's form contract.

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John Schmeeckle's avatar

Skidmark is paTROLLing, and the cave walls resonate with his flatulent bloviations supporting Ukraine's bigoted, oppressive right-wing thug regime.

"How Zelensky made peace with neo-Nazis":

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/04/how-zelensky-made-peace-with-neo-nazis/

How One Ukrainian Oligarch Funded Hunter Biden, President Zelensky, and Neo-Nazis":

https://greatgameindia.com/hunter-biden-zelensky-neo-nazi/

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SLWeston (PA)'s avatar

Mighty piss-poor sources if you ask me, John Schmeekle. “Amazon”? Not exactly a venerated news source.

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John Schmeeckle's avatar

I guess that one went right over your head. The Amazon source was a link to a book by Sergei Glazyev, the Minister of Foreign Economic Relations under Boris Yeltsin, entitled "Genocide: Russia and the New World Order."

And then there's this one:

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/

"Today, increasing reports of far-right violence, ultranationalism, and erosion of basic freedoms are giving the lie to the West’s initial euphoria. There are neo-Nazi pogroms against the Roma, rampant attacks on feminists and LGBT groups, book bans, and state-sponsored glorification of Nazi collaborators.

"These stories of Ukraine’s dark nationalism aren’t coming out of Moscow; they’re being filed by Western media, including US-funded Radio Free Europe (RFE); Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress and the Simon Wiesenthal Center; and watchdogs like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Freedom House, which issued a joint report warning that Kiev is losing the monopoly on the use of force in the country as far-right gangs operate with impunity."

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