”No Indication of Imminent Russian Chemical Weapons Attack in Ukraine”

ウクライナが善戦して1ヶ月以上もっているのは良いんだけど、こうなってくると戦後が逆に不安になってくるんだよな……。アゾフが善戦して政治的影響力を高める可能性出てくるとね……

— dragoner＠C99金曜東マ12a (@dragoner_JP) March 25, 2022

 

Their founder & leader, Andriy Biletsky, has unapologetically stated that the mission of Ukraine is to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade… against Semite-led [Jewish] Untermenschen.”  Azov, who flies an SS emblem as their battle flag, also has proclaimed that their intent is to cleanse Europe of immigrants and homosexuals. This dangerous Nazi group is not only active in the south but is additionally taking part in the defense of the Capital, Kyiv. 

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHA) issued a report on the Azov Battalion in 2016, where it asserts that Azov has been guilty of torturing and raping civilians in areas where it is operational.  And in 2019, forty members of the United States Congress unsuccessfully sought to have Azov listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.  But again, this is not a fringe outlaw group in Ukraine. They are a fully incorporated unit within the official Armed Forces.

In reality, their activities have included attacks on the Roma and LGBTQ communities.

The Russian government and Putin, although being rightwing themselves and no friends of the working class, have made much of this Nazi problem in their propaganda justifying the war.  They have exaggerated these facts and gone so far as to claim Ukraine is a Nazi state.  Ukraine is not.  Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is Jewish.  And the overall politics of the Ukrainian Parliament are right-leaning/neo-liberal in nature, but not Nazi in character. 

And certainly, the great majority of Ukrainians are not Nazis or fascists.

The 2019 fascist defeat at the polls does not diminish the truth that the Ukrainian state presently provides support, arms, financing, and legitimacy to dangerous Nazi organizations.  Nor can anything negate the reality that Zelenskyy’s government has outlawed the left-leaning opposition parties throughout the country including the Left Opposition, Union of Left Forces, Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialist Party of Ukraine, and Socialists Party.  Further, previous governments had already banned the Communist Party of Workers & Peasants as well as the Communist Party of Ukraine (which as recently as 2002 was the third-largest party in the country with 64 seats in parliament).  While Zelenskyy and his supporters justify these steps by claiming that these parties are sympathetic to Russia or Russian separatists (Russian speakers represent 30% of the countries population), it is hard to square claims by Western governments that Ukraine aspires to be a Euro-style democracy with its repressive actions concerning its internal opposition.

アゾフ大隊は人種差別的、反LGBT団体である。

もっともウクライナではごく少数派

ただ、そうした団体に武器や資金を渡すのはまずい。アフガンで「自由のための戦士」を武装して後にテロリストした例もある。

さらに、ゼレンスキー政権は親露的として左派政党を禁止したが、これも欧州的民主主義と相容れない、と。

  バイデン氏、けむに巻く「戦略的曖昧さ」で対応か 2022/3/25

 

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"I know that the news keeps repeating that Putin is targeting civilians, but there is no evidence that Russia is intentionally doing so," says the DIA analyst. "In fact, I'd say that Russian could be killing thousands more civilians if it wanted to."

市民の犠牲者はでているが、意図的にはやっていない、意図的ならばもっと市民の死傷者がでるだろう、と。市民の死傷者がもっとでると欧米介入の声がもっとあがるだろうーそれはまずいので、プーチンはあれでも抑制しているのだ、と。

  No Indication of Imminent Russian Chemical Weapons Attack in Ukraine -U.S. Defense Official By Reuters | March 22, 2022

化学生物兵器をつかう差し迫った兆候はまだ、ない、と。