NP: Is America Training Neonazis in Ukraine?

[Thomas Eckhardt]

While everyone is talking about Greece and the limits of comedy (the 
lost second part of the "Poetics", anyone?), I may be forgiven if I 
address my very own pet NP-topic.

Even the Daily Beast which is firmly on the side of those framing the 
conflict as "Russian aggression" begins to ask questions:

'There are no doubts about the neo-Nazi and white supremacist background 
of the Azov Battalion, a militia that has positioned itself at the 
forefront of the fight against Russian-backed separatists in eastern 
Ukraine. As the founder and head of the battalion Andriy Biletsky once 
put it, “The historic mission of our nation in this critical moment is 
to lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival.”

That Russian President Vladimir Putin and his propagandists exploit this 
fact, using it to build support for their aggression and to undermine 
the international effort to help Ukraine defend its independence, is 
undeniable. But knowing that, and wanting to resist that, does not 
resolve some very important questions about the basic facts.

What is the relationship of the U.S. government to these people? Is it 
training them? Might it arm them? Is this, like the Afghan war of the 
1980s, one of those cases where we aid and abet the kind of monsters who 
eventually become our enemies? Concerns about that possibility have been 
growing on Capitol Hill.'

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/04/is-the-u-s-training-neo-nazis-in-ukraine.html

There are 70 years of history leading up to this, of course, but 
unfortunately the author seems to have never heard of Operation 
Bloodstone, Operation Aerodynamic, "Nightingale" etc.
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