There has been a lot of talk about the Ukraine and how much money Joe is sending over there. Especially at a time when Americans are suffering so badly with Biden’s high gas prices and soaring inflation. Yet, even so, Joe continues flooding Ukraine with our hard-earned tax dollars. And it sucks, because we’re flat broke and in debt right now. Many people believe we have no business sticking our noses in this “war,” and that it’s a regional issue, and our involvement is only making this drag on.
In addition, many people believe that this has turned into our proxy war against Russia.
Also, a lot of Americans are very concerned over the Nazi imagery that’s been coming out of Ukraine. We’ve seen a lot of this imagery from certain groups of fighters, and other civilians who turned up in random photos, which were later deleted by Westen media.
The Daily Beast did a bizarre puff piece on why Nazi symbols are so popular in Ukraine, where they made it sounds like the Swastika had some really well-known alternate meaning.
“…A yellow swastika on a black field stands for power and spirit,” said Stakhiv.
It also stands for just about everything negative that Russian President Vladimir Putin preaches about Ukraine being taken over by crypto-, and not-so-crypto-, Nazis. But young Stakhiv insists that’s wrong. He says he’s campaigning in opposition to “oligarchs running the country, the actual enemy of Ukraine” and sees his mission as opposing the politics of the current president, the billionaire Petro Poroshenko, who, Stakhiv claims, does not see the real picture.
“The swastika is a very strong symbol, and as soon as we adopted it, we immediately grew popular among young people,” said Stakhiv. “Those who join us know exactly what they want, and they are ready to go to the very end.” Today, Idea of the Nation is represented in 14 regions of Ukraine and counts over 1,000 activists, its leader told The Daily Beast.
How to explain the growing popularity of Nazi symbols in Ukraine? They keep turning up. Ukrainian soldiers have been seen and photographed wearing helmets with swastikas and the letters SS on their helmets.
A spokesmen for the volunteer Azov Battalion, where the symbols are common, eventually denied they are related to Hitler. He insisted that the battalion insignia reminiscent of the Nazi Wolfsangel, symbol of, among others, the 2nd SS Panzer Division that fought the Russians on the Eastern Front, was actually nothing but the crossed letters “N.”
I gotta be honest, that sounds like a whole lotta horsesh*t and lame excuses for a country that is very “skinhead-esqe,” if you ask me. Can you imagine if Americans wearing a Swastika gave this as an excuse? Do you think the media would write puff pieces about them, too?
Give me a break.
And now, to make matters even more conflated, we’re seeing that the head of the entire Ukraine Army, is also wearing what looks to be a “Swastika” symbol on his bracelet.
This is the tweet that kicked off the fury online. Journalist Raheem Kassam posted this on his Twitter: “NOTHING TO SEE HERE just Ukraine’s head of the Armed Forces wearing a diamond swastika bracelet.”
Below this tweet, Raheem included his proof that it was not photoshopped.
No, it’s not photoshopped… pic.twitter.com/AlDwpRMd9v
— Raheem J. Kassam (@RaheemKassam) October 9, 2022
I also went directly to the commander’s Twitter account and looked for the post and I found it.
I took the photo right from his tweet and zoomed in on it with my Photoshop Elements; I did absolutely nothing to edit or alter the photo, I simply zoomed in, and I could see very clearly, what looks like a swastika symbol on his bracelet.
Here’s the commander’s original tweet, with the photo from October 6, 2022. The translation reads this: “A struggle continues on our land, the scale of which the world has not seen since the Second World War. We have no right to transfer this war to our children. The enemy must be destroyed here and now. And we can do it.”
На нашій землі триває боротьба, масштабів якої світ не бачив із часів Другої світової. Ми не маємо права перекласти цю війну на наших дітей. Ворога потрібно знищити тут і зараз. І ми це можемо зробити.#valeriizaluzhnyi pic.twitter.com/8PsVOD9iiN
— Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (@CinC_AFU) October 6, 2022
Here’s a screenshot from my Photoshop Elements screen:
In case he deletes the tweet, here is a screenshot:
Some liberals who are defending the commander, claim he uploaded a “photoshopped” version of his own photo to Twitter. That could be, I suppose.
I am not sure what’s going on. I am just reporting on what the commander posted on his Twitter account.
Other liberals are trying to say it’s a “Buddhist” symbol.
Hopefully, we’ll hear directly from him, and he can set the record straight.
Here’s what people online are saying about this:
“This guy spent a lot of money on custom-made Nazi bling for christs sake”
“Paid for with your American tax dollars”
“I’m sure the fact checkers will come up with some lame excuse how this symbol is actually a good thing LOL”
” Liberals in the comments saying, “This is the good Swastika” lmao half this country has turned into complete clowns”
“Glad to see all that money we send them is going to a good cause”
“I don’t think there’s a good reason to wear a Swastika, the “good” or bad one.”
“These Ukrainians are some of the sketchiest people around.”
“I’m so glad we have US vets sleeping on the streets, but we’re keeping Nazi-lovers safe and sound thousands of miles away”
“please take your righteous anger and flood the polls this midterm. Let’s take power away from these monsters”
I know if the right was trying to fund a group that was wearing any kind of Nazi symbol “good or bad” (🙄) they’d be run outta town with pitchforks and torches, but when the left does it, there’s a million “amazing excuses.”
They call Trump supporters Nazis, and we don’t wear this garbage, but the people that actually wear it, get a pass.
Hahaha. You can’t make up this type of propaganda.
Honestly, the American people have had enough of this double-standard nonsense… and I believe they’ll send a message at the ballot box this November.
This post originally appeared on WayneDupree.com.