{"id":207176,"date":"2022-03-21T12:02:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T12:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=207176"},"modified":"2022-03-20T10:07:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T10:07:27","slug":"nato-is-arming-and-training-nazis-in-ukraine-as-us-floods-russias-neighbor-with-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/03\/nato-is-arming-and-training-nazis-in-ukraine-as-us-floods-russias-neighbor-with-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO Is Arming and Training Nazis in Ukraine, as US Floods Russia\u2019s Neighbor with Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"

NATO is sending weapons and trainers to help neo-Nazis in Ukraine\u2019s white-supremacist Azov movement fight Russia. This follows numerous reports of Western government support for Ukrainian far-right extremists.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ukrainian neo-Nazis from Azov receiving NATO weapons and training.<\/p><\/div>\n

11 Mar 2022 –\u00a0 <\/em>The US-led NATO military alliance is sending weapons to neo-Nazi extremists in Ukraine as they battle Russian soldiers.<\/p>\n

Since Russia invaded Ukraine<\/a> on February 24, the US government has flooded the country with arms, authorizing sending $350 million worth of military equipment<\/a> to Kiev.<\/p>\n

In less than a week in late February and early March, the United States and other NATO member states transported more than 17,000 anti-tank weapons<\/a>, including Javelin missiles, over the borders of Poland and Romania into Ukraine, the New York Times reported.<\/p>\n

Washington has also sent Kiev 2,000 stinger anti-aircraft missiles<\/a>. And the Joe Biden administration gave the \u201cgreen light\u201d to NATO countries to send fighter jets to Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Western governments have invited hardened right-wing militants from around the world to travel to Ukraine to join the fight against Russia \u2013 just as they did in Afghanistan in the 1980s, in a strategy that gave birth to al-Qaeda and the Taliban.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as NATO creates an insurgency in Ukraine, some of the fighters receiving these arms are white-supremacist fascists.<\/p>\n

The anti-Russian activist media platform NEXTA tweeted on March 8 that NATO countries had shipped Next Generation Light Anti-tank Weapon (NLAW) guided missiles and sent instructors to the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Azov regiment was the first to learn about new weaponry,\u201d admitted NEXTA, a Western-backed Belarusian opposition outlet.<\/p>\n

Azov is an explicitly neo-Nazi extremist group.<\/p>\n

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A shipment of NLAW grenade launchers and instructors from #NATO<\/a> countries arrived in #Kharkiv<\/a>. The Azov regiment was the first to learn about new weaponry pic.twitter.com\/CCzjN40rW7<\/a><\/p>\n

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n