www.zerohedge.com BY PORTFOLIO ARMOR
Update:
Adding this tweet, because it’s perfect:
If you had told me ten years ago that the bi-partisan foreign policy of the American elite would be to risk nuclear war with Russia so Ukrainian neo-Nazis could control the Donbas, I would have thought: very unlikely.
— Scott McConnell (@ScottMcConnell9) May 15, 2022
The On-Again, Off-Again Neo-Nazi Threat
Last week, journalist Michael Tracey noted an odd about-face by two of the most frequently-cited monitors of hate groups in America, The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League.
Nazis Are Actually Fine Now, According to the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation Leaguehttps://t.co/pKLPdbFO24
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) May 13, 2022
After warning of the threat of Neo-Nazism constantly during the 2016 Trump campaign and during Trump’s term in the White House, both organizations were now silent about American support for Neo-Nazi military units in Ukraine:
If you happened to be alive during the years of 2016 to 2020, you can probably recall the routine issuance of frantic bulletins that “Nazis” were suddenly on the march in the US. Not just that some ludicrous, ragtag group of self-identified Nazis could be occasionally spotted in the wild — which had always been a somewhat regular, albeit freakish occurrence. Rather, the idea was that full-bore ideological “Nazism” had surged as a genuinely formidable political force, and everyone needed to be extremely terrified of this. […]
