There are very few things in this world that can leave me almost speechless. This is one of them.
Dropping all pretense of their hidden ideology, Reuters is reporting exclusively that Facebook and Instagram have modified their terms and conditions to permit advocacy and support for the Nazi party in Ukraine (Azov Regiment), and they have modified their violence terms to allow platform users to advocate for death to Russians.
I don’t quite know where to begin. However, this report from Reuters does actually make sense based on some pictures that were floating around a few days ago. The pictures show U.S. military “advisors” training Ukrainian neo-Nazi’s in the Azov regiment how to use FGM-148 javelin missiles.
It would be odd if Big Tech were generically against all Nazi’s, while U.S. military advisors are in Ukraine training specific Azov Regiment Nazi’s to fight Russians. The Javelin missile system, pictured above, is what Ukraine is using to defeat Russian tanks and armored vehicles. The U.S. is sending the Ukraine military thousands of them. Apparently arming and training Nazis is okay right now.
The Reuter’s article notes: “Emails also showed that Meta would allow praise of the right-wing Azov battalion, which is normally prohibited, in a change first reported by The Intercept. Meta spokesman Joe Osborne previously said the company was “for the time being, making a narrow exception for praise of the Azov Regiment strictly in the context of defending Ukraine, or in their role as part of the Ukraine National Guard.” (link)
March 10 (Reuters) – Meta Platforms (FB.O) will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy.
The social media company is also temporarily allowing some posts that call for death to Russian President Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in countries including Russia, Ukraine and Poland, according to internal emails to its content moderators.
“As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules like violent speech such as ‘death to the Russian invaders.’ We still won’t allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.
The calls for the leaders’ deaths will be allowed unless they contain other targets or have two indicators of credibility, such as the location or method, one email said, in a recent change to the company’s rules on violence and incitement.
The temporary policy changes on calls for violence to Russian soldiers apply to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine, according to one email.
[…] “We are issuing a spirit-of-the-policy allowance to allow T1 violent speech that would otherwise be removed under the Hate Speech policy when: (a) targeting Russian soldiers, EXCEPT prisoners of war, or (b) targeting Russians where it’s clear that the context is the Russian invasion of Ukraine (e.g., content mentions the invasion, self-defense, etc.),” it said in the email. (read more)
For almost fifteen years we have been outlining the connection of the Obama and EU ideologues to Nazism. This is something that everyone associated with the Democrat Party have denied repeatedly. Now, all of a sudden, Facebook and Instagram, the support system in Big Tech for the ideology of Democrats, is openly admitting a change in position allowing public support for Nazism on their platforms.
This is a remarkable moment.
Sure I’m still classified as an unreconstructed white supremacist anti-vaxxer down to his last strike.
There is a boxcar with your name on it
With refreshments too.
I am as speechless as you are…
Putin, summoning his inner Jack Posobiec: “Are you paying attention?”
Alternate Headline: Facebook and Instagram Update Mission Statements to “Make Hitler Great Again!”
Springtime for Hitler
Well played.
Wasn’t Farcebook hiring censors from communist China?
https://nypost.com/2020/10/20/meet-your-chinese-facebook-censors/
MAGA = bad, MHGA = good / BLM = good, ALM = bad / Stupid is as stupid does.
Ouch! I wonder if the snowflake employees of Facebook and Instagram grasp what they are supporting?
Eh, they’re too stupid to understand.
Couple this with the video Sundance posted earlier “Fire in the Ukraine” and you realize what we’ve been dealing with all along and who’s responsible for all this shit.
That Azov groups are apparently getting some “special attention” from what I’m seeing. So, for the *.mil glowboys hanging around doing lectures it might be self-cleaning. There’s also a proud Canadian brigade over there as well.
I noticed Trudeau is over there.
I’d like to know who was “imported” to cause such violence on Freedom Truckers. Azov is looking suspect.
We saw the airplanes.
Pence is in Ukraine right now too. WTF
Correction, Poland. But essentially the same thing.
Think he’s got something to hide there too. Best guess.
It’s just too weird Trudeau was pushing the Nazi thing with Freedom Truckers. His personal photographer was seen taking propaganda photos of their plant waving a Nazi flag.
We aren’t used to experiencing that level of violence -especially done on a group that was peacefully protesting Government Overreach and Mandates. There were families , picnics, dancing, singing, fellowship, kindness, respect.
The violet repercussions don’t correlate. Freezing Bank accounts, threatening to remove children and killing their dogs, trampling people with horses.
Why did the Ottawa Chief of Police resign? Could he be a future whistleblower?
The new Chief showed up with his freshly shave head, acting completely unhinged. He wasn’t the only one with that freshly shave head look, either.
Now here we are supplying weapons and training Nazis in a country that is loaded with Bio-Labs.
Violence
too bad it wasn’t violets
They didn’t import anything those were all proud Canadian police that volunteered to go crack skulls. They had plenty of militarized fascists to choose from no need to out source.
Those are some of the best, fit-looking police I’ve ever seen.
Many weren’t built like the police seen tweeting about overtime.
The one that was stepping on the Canadian Flag with black visor was something straight out of Hollywood.
Hard to tell.
FGM-148 distribution used to be very tightly controlled, not anymore.
Mark my words, giving them to the Ukrainians will come back to bite us in the ass.
Hey, it worked out so great giving stingers to tribesmen in afganistan, also to fight russians,…what could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Take down civilian aircraft?
Might be too late. Neo-nazis are in Mariupol. Putin is intent upon wiping them out. Nazis are raw troops; Russians are not. No good guys here.
No good guys….I’ve been saying that for days
Don’t communists have a habit of calling anyone who is not a communist either a “nazi” or a “fascist”?
Russia isn’t a Communist country… and it would appear that Putin is actually telling the truth, believe it or not!
The propaganda war is immense.
Took me a few hours but after looking at the video of the “annihilated Russian tank column” today, I went back and looked at second 44. After the assault virtually all the Russian tanks in the village had driven away. The weapons didn’t do much to the Russian tanks.
So, I can only speculate, that, the audio of the Russian tank commander is propaganda. I would think that the Russians use encrypted communications anyway.
“The medium is the message:” Rodger McLuhan.
Look weak when you are strong.
~ Marshall McLuhan
“The medium is the message” is a phrase he created meaning that the form of a medium embeds itself in the message, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived. These days it is often used to point out how the media influences public opinion by twisting reality on a flatscreen to conform to a preconceived agenda.
My mistake. More like second 36 in this version of the video.
The Medium is the MASSAGE, Marshall McLuhan, 1967.
One of these days, I’ll get the names right!
so very very weird!
cue that “Twilight Zone” intro . . .
This has every version of the show’s intro.
Then there’s GOLDEN EARRING’S song: TWILIGHT ZONE.
They have another one titled FREEDOM DON’T LAST FOREVER.
Two others of theirs: I’M IN A BAD MOOD and TEMPORARY MADNESS.
How long now until it’s allowed on Facebook and Instagram to call for the death of conservatives, white people, Christians, or anyone you just don’t like?
It already is allowed
The 1st three are encouraged.
We’re shifting from 1930’s Germany to 1940’s Germany… ???
The entire thread is good.
Save the art.
Good stuff!
US has gone nuts. We are now arming nazis.
Obama armed ISIS in Syria. Biden armed the Taliban.
Braaaaaack gave the Iranians $150 BILLION dollars.
the obiden group gave a country, a 21st century military base, full military weaponry, tech, and intel, and rooms full of cash to the jihadists — the Caliphate in reformation. That group has always aligned with islam,.
We are arming the good Nazis
come on man, get with it
You stole my line.
Minus 10 social credit points for you.
There goes our tax dollars.
I wonder if JoBama is going to bring the Nazis into the US and call them refugees.
It’s a full time job flooding the US with the scum of the Earth.
The masks are coming off, one by one. All this time they have been calling conservatives and Trump supporter Nazis. Now we know who the real Nazis are. Sadly, the propaganda media mill controls the narrative. And until we take away their bully pulpits nothing will change.
Talk about projection!!
Look, it is news to most Americans that there are any Nazis in the 21st century. We all saw them get completely wiped out, a thousand times over, on our movie screens, didn’t we? We were assured that Germany had been completely demoralized and was rebuilt in our wonderful image as a responsible democratic republic. Believing there were Nazi forces with any government support in Europe was not only not a conspiracy theory (because no one ever even floated it), it would have been like suggesting there was a colony of mermaids in your cornfield.
We have been blind, because we have been blinded.
Wake up and see the demons.
I agree.
When I started on GAB I was really shocked at the number of Nazi, holocaust deniers, White Supremists ,etc.
I almost stopped. But obstinate me has stayed on GAB.
You see, they have this neat feature block and mute.
Kinda like the troll and Rol Cons who slip through here occasionally. Only a thousand times worse!
I don’t argue or waste my time with them..just block/mute.
Still – it has been an eye opener !
Much respect for Ad Rem.
It appears to me that a large swath of the population is waking up and becoming very aware of who the true enemy is. The enemy are also aware and that’s why they have sped up their plans and are making mistakes only to wake even more to their plan’s of global domination. We will see soon enough.
This is why things are not going as planned by the Derp State/Cabal, the sense of panic and haste is causing them to botch up their plans. The enemy is both disorganized and out of position as well as running low on resources.
The most positive side effect in all this is that the propaganda deluge is so obvious that even the half conscious sheep are waking up in droves especially when the MSM has to keep changing stories every day to keep up with the truth coming out.
A lot of Holocaust survivors and their families are going to scream when they find out the change in policy by FB and Instagram, especially in Israel.
I personally believe Putin has already achieved most of his planned objectives but is prolonging this to expose even more DS players and it’s working, they’re coming out of woodwork and shadows exposing themselves to be targeted.
The RINOs are even more exposed now just before the midterms and they’re going to pay their support of Biden’s insanity at the polls and voting booth.
I don’t believe they are running low on resources.
Piglosi just pushed through an over 1 Trillion dollar top up to the cause.
That buys a lot .
seems that “nazis” are whoever those in power want to call “nazis” on any particular day. it’s become a synonym for “opponents,” just like the thug rappers made “b-” into a synonym for females.
All the masks except the ones on the commercial airliners.
Grrr…..
I have never believed the elites were against Nazism but they were only against Hitler. You see, Hitler was a loser and that is the ONLY reason they hate him.
What are the chances he was a loser not only because he lost a war but that he did not go far enough?
I remember something about those Nazi’s being rabid about the environment as well.
Nazi Ecology: The Oak Sacrifice of the Judeo-Christian Worldview in the Holocaust
“Nazi Ecology” explains why the Holocaust is best understood as a modernized form of human sacrifice carried out under ecological/biological camouflage that is rooted in the sacrificial oak imagery of ancient paganism. The word Holocaust itself means “whole burnt offering.”
I knew the Nazi’s were into quite the occult practices and all so I cannot say that would shock me.
What your post alludes to strikes me not only as pagan in origin, but Celtic in particular without even having to follow the link.
Are the “advisors” so secret and special that they get to have their faces sharpied?
Special Ops out of Colorado. Been there training since the Maidan.
I hate Nazi’s.
The Socialist Democrats are a scourge to the human race. DC, supported AntiFa a brown shirt organization, which was created by the DC Socialist Democrats.
We are heading down that same road taken over 70 plus years ago. That saying, ‘history repeats’ applies.
God, how stupid are we?
Evidently, we’re slow to catch on. But we’re catching up fast.
This will not end well for the Nazi class.
not “we” — “they” — a good- sized segment of the US is too dangerous to live around now. Through a combination of hate, gullibility, stupidity, and belief in propaganda, they are the enablers. I’m more concerned about those who were talking of putting US in camps a month ago than anyone in Europe, and sorry if that sounds cold, but since it’s all just heads on the same hydra…
Australian fascist government has suspended a constitutional clause that normally would stop a citizen from joining the Nazi ukies, but still no to joining the Russians fighting the Nazis !!!!!
Surely no brave Diggers would ever join N@ZIs? My American countrymen? Unfortunately, yes.
It just occurred to me though . . .
Jeff Zuckerberg and Facebook are actually HELPING Russia by announcing that Facebook is OKAY about Nazis in Ukraine –
because that’s why Putin was talking about, “De-Nazifying” Ukraine
and thus they are actually buttressing the WHY and WHEREFORE of the Russian mission
A good time to remember and educate others who do not know about Babi Yar and other Nazi atrocities.
In California, I understand there is a plan to release 2 million mosquitoes into our skies in an effort to combat the virulent, harmful diseases known to be carried by mosquitoes – so we are not to worry, these particular 2 million guys are not going to bite us and make us sick, they are going to mate with the biting females and somehow help eradicate rhe mosquitoes that bite and cause illnesses. I certainly hope they have that figured out.
That’s mosquitoes.
But I don’t think they have managed to do anything like that with Nazis – they are forever and always as dangerous and nasty as they have ever been and I daresay the Azov Nazis in Ukraine are probably just as bad as the Nazis at Babi Yar.
Hate to have to say this . . . But the government that has been benign enough to run a J6 gulag, steal an election, and fund worldwide biowarfare labs is not releasing those mosquitoes for any good purpose.
Remember the puppies in Tunisia with the sand fleas? The Ukraine labs are alleged to have been working on insects as disease vectors for the gain of function enhanced pathogens.
Feel sick yet?
Whatever they’ve been hiding in the Ukraine they are desperate to cover up. Add in Durham going after the DNC email and uncovering the truth there. . .
Newsome, one of the members of the four or five families that “own” CA, letting them release insects that bite humans.
Think they couldn’t bioengineer plague carrying mosquitoes?
Gates has been releasing his mosquitoes in Florida and other countries too.
I just think back on the African Bees.
Wasn’t that long ago…..
From what I’ve read those mosquitoes have vaxes in them so there is no need to go get vaxed anymore.
What??
Funny thing. Up until the release of the mosquito’s, there were none of that species in CA, nor the pathogens they carry. LOL, not lol.
refund the pro niece.
I’m actually glad to hear about a plan to eradicate the biting mosquitoes.
Here in Long Beach, CA and the surrounding area, the tiny Aedes mosquitos showed up about 3 or 4 years ago ( probably by a container ship). We called them ankle biters and they’re capable of carrying dangerous diseases- Denge fever, Zika virus, yellow fever to name a few. We always have had the regular mosquito that carries West Nile disease. So anything that might eradicate them will be appreciated.
Operation Barbarossa 2. This time will side with the Nazis in Ukraine. You can’t make this s—- up.
So hate speech and advocacy for previously, dare I say verboten ideological/political positions is okee doke… IF it is approved, for the moment, by Big Bro and downstream social sycophants along with the Mockingbird Media.
Looks like Winston Smith is going to be logging overtime hours by the gross.
This is so f’ed up.
Obviously there is no more pretense of objectivity anymore. The entire MSM and social media world have shown who they are, and could care less about any criticism.
And the brainless masses simply drift along uncritically in their mass hypnotic trance.
Bill Bennett wrote a book years ago called ‘The Death of Outrage.’ The world since then has become exponentially more apathetic and easily manipulated. And the tyranny and hate of the ruling class out in the open with cunning use of semantics and censorship. .
And we ain’t see nothin’ yet.
Speaking of semantics, they could not care less,indeed!
Firm in their knowledge that the masses will follow along to the next outrage, picking a side of least resistance, like a townie picks his favorite soccer team. Never questioning and loyal to their dying breath.
How are national socialists … right wing?
They aren’t.
NAZI = Socialism with goofier flags.
The Marxists who control academia can’t allow the national socialism to represent socialism.
I noticed that bit of media switcheroo, too.
It takes an Ivy League Journalism degree to understand that connection.
Thankfully, I don’t have that affliction.
The world claims Russia is Gog – the chief prince that will come against Israel… but what if it’s Ukraine…
“The interpretation is based on the perceived similarity of sound and spelling between the Hebrew term ‘rosh’ and ‘Rus,’ the ancient name of the principality based in the city of Kyiv. ”
https://www.endtime-insights.org/2022/01/is-russia-rosh.html?m=1
It is possible, sure. Ukraine is north of Israel too.
My question would be, what is the the hook in the jaw of Gog? Perhaps Ukrainian nazis plays a part.
Gog and Magog are the “guardian” Nephilim of the City of London. https://lordmayorsshow.london/history/gog-and-magog
Those “guardian” Nephilim did not prevent London from burning down numerous times in the past did they?
The burning of London only harmed the Anglo-Saxon peasants and artisans. The overlords got rid of the excess English by transporting them as children in chains to slave in the colonies. Kidnapped. Kid nabbed. Same-same. Evil foreign City overlords were all Norman/French/German scum!
Beo gesund.
So, reports that the Azoz militias were nazis, was Russian propoganda and disinfo.
Reports the U.S. had Bioweopons research facilities in Ukraine,..was Russian Propoganda disinfo.
Reports of Hunters laptop, was Russian disinfo.
Seems like this Russian disinfo is pretty darn accurate,..gonna have to renew my subscription to RT, and Pravda so I can get accurate news!
These people are EVIL, I don’t contest. But SMART? ” Following a plan” and “this is ALL intentional”?
Don’t make me laugh!
These people are insane, idiodic mediocrities, masking their massive inferiority complexes, with gross displays of hubris.
They have CONTROL, yes,…but thats ALL they have and its FAR from absolute, and they only have control, so long as WE delegate it to them.
ISIS, Nazis, Taliban, Mexican Drug Lords, ANTIFA, BLM, there’s not an extremist group they don’t use.
Yes.
And any nationalist, domestic movement is Nazi, white supremacist and racist.
I think you are getting the hang of this.
Have you watched Ukraine on Fire!
What other news sources in the West will expose this latest idiocy by Big Tech?
The Ukraine region rivals the Mid East in the sustained hate and malice various factions have had for each other. Nazism has had deep roots in the Western region including as far back as Hitler. Before that they went by other names. Many western Ukrainians thought Hitler was a favorable alternative to Stalin and many in the East thought Stalin or Communist Russia was a favorable alternative to Hitler. This has fluctuated over time. The 3rd choice was probably always a dime a dozen self enriching corrupt authoritarian.
I have no idea how many factions still hate each other and wish to kill the other faction. But recent history proves there were many attempts to annihilate each other. The West’s decision to enter the madness of this region is unwise and reckless. Who is on the good side and the bad side of these conflicts is often difficult to determine and it varies over time.
Putin has decided to jump head first into the boiling Ukraine cauldron and some in the West seem determined to dive in after him. Let Lindsey take the first plunge into the madness that he and McCain, Nuland, Biden etc. helped to sustain.
They will soon allow for the advocacy of “DEATH TO ALL WHITE MEN”, what’s left of us. FB along with others are the tools of indoctrination and a road to a means. White Men, they know will not submit and comply. They easily have their way with the weakest amongst us i.e. minority Women of all color, Blacks and illegal aliens
but need to eliminate the White rhino in order to achieve the future global plantation of their dreams.
I’m not sure if Americans are permitted to use hate speech against Putin or Russian soldiers. I think you may have to be from certain countries to be permitted. Maybe Biden will let us?
What an exciting time to be alive! Permitted and encouraged dehumanization!
I can’t wait to see what group is next!
From here on, I’ll stay in the government’s, and thereby, social media’s good graces so I can continue to use my car, credit cards, get cash out of banks, eat McDonalds, watch Netflix and avoid fellow citizens from being able to publicly call for my death.
I want to deserve these things. I don’t want to be an animal like “the Russians”.
Hmmm,
Wants to drive car, Minus 50 Social Credit Points
Eats meat, Minus 30 SCP
Uses Cash, Minus 100 SCP.
_________________
Too late, You are over the limit.
It is all in plain sight. The OUNB against Russia maneuvering any one it can for over 80 years.
I think this proof positive that Putin went into Ukraine to denazify it.
What do you call “fluid” ethics? Liberalism.
leftism
I believe they allowed death to our President Trump to be said, no?
I don’t know about training Nazis but President Trump sent javelin missiles there also.
Are we sure this group are actual Neo-Nazis? Because they call anything right wing Nazis.
They call anyone they are against at the moment “nazis.” I still want to know what the Nazi activity is and against what groups. Nothing stirs people up like hearing one side is “fighting nazis.” Almost like being “anti-fascist.”
Just watch Ukraine on Fire
Look up info on Azov.
I wouldn’t wear a wolfsangel. Would you? Azov are NAZIs.
That’s nice.
“Germany and Japan arenow both talking about develeloping their own militaries. Historically, this has not gone well, and there are some, myself included who are leery of this.”
paraphrasing PDJT.
Power abhors a vacuum.
These are the people who will write the rules that they want to force us to live under. Dig in people, not going down for this.
Western Communism is more insidious now than the Eastern version.
“We must stand with Ukraine, as they stand with ‘us’.”
George Soros
Yeah. Ukraine did its best to destroy PDJT in 2016. They sure stand with ‘us.’ Unless Schwartz has another ‘us’ in mind.
They don’t call it the culture of death for no reason. Non serviam has consequences, as they say. It will only get worse and worse for them from here on out. The best we can do is try to stay out of their way until they get done hanging each other and themselves.
“There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy… The thing that impressed Winston in looking back was that the speaker had switched from one line to the other actually in midsentence, not only without a pause, but without even breaking the syntax.”
Of all the many disturbing realizations I’ve had in the last two years, the worst of them has been the discovery that a huge proportion of people have no inner core. Their values are received from the culture around them, and can be changed at a whim.
From childhood, society has conditioned these people to reflexively hate Big Chemical (Dow, Monsanto, etc); yet when told to do so the same individuals not only willing inject experimental products from Big Pharma into their bodies, they became zealots who believed they had a moral obligation to make everyone do so.
I always knew there people like this, but I never realized there were so many. They will be believe what they are told, because they actually believe nothing. None of their opinions are the result of thought, self-reflection, introspection. They do not live by any code because they have no code.
Such people are extremely dangerous.
So be warned. Such people, whom from childhood society has conditioned to hate Nazis, are now being told Nazis are ok “temporarily” in “a narrow circumstance.”
Cancer culture had many roots, but the one I remember is the “It’s OK to Punch a Nazi.” That was five short years ago. We have evolved now to “It’s Ok to Praise a Nazi” because Russia must be cancelled.
Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once…
Don’t punch the good Nazis, though!
Exactly. A lot of us have come to that conclusion at the same time. They are masquerading as having strong ideology, but the truth is, they believe as they are told to believe, which is much more dangerous. Everything you said…yes…there have been many talks in this household (and prob many others) about that lately.
Liberalism. Critical thinkers need not apply.
The difference between good Nazis and bad Nazis?
Easy
We arm the good Nazis.
As of right now it’s the Russians fighting against Biden supporters.
Whose side are you on?
If you’re not for Nazis, you’re for Putin? Wait….what?
Wait a second, bub
I’m only for the good Nazis.
I don’t like all of em, just the good ones who fight that Nazi Putin.
He’s a bad Nazi
We have to take their power away! You would think ANTIFA hackers would be going after Facebook right now, but then I remembered. The “ANTIFA” are Fascists.
As for other Fascists
“High gas prices could accelerate the shift to electric cars, slashing emissions while also dealing a blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Congress could offer generous financial assistance to make sure that low-income families can afford to go electric and don’t get stuck paying for ever-pricier gasoline.”
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-09/high-gas-prices-time-to-talk-climate-action
Only way I see working to take their power away is to refuse to comply and to bypass them entirely in conducting our day to day lives.
so the middle-class, esp rural, gets skinned. naturally. they esp have it out for us.
It’s looking to me like Putin’s hat is a LOT more white than anyone in our government! What a bunch of treasonous bastards! What irks me more than anything is that they do this in OUR name and they use OUR money to do it with!
I used to wonder why we were so hated in other countries, and now I know. The US government may very well be the most corrupt criminal enterprise on the planet.
Just like when PDJT took office – he does not need to do anything but just exist, and the opposition simply can’t help exposing themselves for the fascists they are.
The SS symbol is bad optics. But I voted for Trump, so what Am I?
MAGA. Patriots. Americans. The good guys.
Too much propaganda swirling around. Don’t let them cause your (meaning all of us) head to whip around in all directions everytime they release a new bit of “news”…..
as someone purportedly said once,
“there are good people on both sides”
The Allies allied with Stalin to defeat Hitler.
Putin is not a great guy but Stalin was orders of magnitude worse.
I’m not telling a soul in my world but I be rootin’ for Putin.
When the war began, the Soviets and the Nazis had a pact to divide Poland and extensive trade agreements. The Axis invasion of the Soviet Union probably would not have been possible without Soviet trade, which continued up to the day Barbarossa began.
After the war, the Allies recruited Nazis to contain the Communism.
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the British and the German states allied against the French. In the twentieth century the British and the French allied against the Germans.
Two and half millennia ago, the Athenians and the Spartans allied to defeat the Persians. When the Persians were defeated, Athens and Sparta used Persian resources to fight one another.
I’ve always assumed there is a lost Biblical story about Cain and Abel’s third brother.
History is a messy story of imperfect peoples.
I be rootin’ for the people to overthrow their dodgy governments everywhere