I think the Karas clip I posted earlier may shed some light on this...Low Down Low wrote:I find the whole thing very complex and difficult to understand. There's also the influence of Ihor Kolomoyskyi, one of Ukraine's chief oligarchs, who is on the FBI' s blacklist, but has been one of Zelenskys main financial backers while also funding the Azov, among other far right military battalions. It's all very murky and strange. And while it's easy to get why the ultra nationalist Ukrainian far right is standing up to Putin, i can't help wondering if all the far right groups pouring in from neighbouring countries (well, according to reports, anyway) understand that they are, nominally at least, fighting for a cause that is pro nato, pro EU integration, which doesn't seem a very neo nazi angle to be aligning yourself with. Maybe these folk are stuck in a cold war time warp and still imagine they are fighting the Russian red menace? I don't know really, while Putin is unquestionably the villain of the peace here, there's still a lot in the background I have a weak grasp of.
He mentions that the "European family" (by which I'd assume he at least partially means the EU) has "already collapsed" and that "this is about new political alliances on the global level." He also mentions having a "huge, ambitious task" and alludes to Russia falling apart "into five different Russias." Karas also enthusiastically referred to the current sitatution as a "holy war," so I'd say that he and the various neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine just see a lot of this as a means to an end.Also on the neo-Nazi front: here's a clip of Yevhen Karas, the leader of another neo-Nazi militia, C14, speaking on how his and the other militias were "given so much weaponry" to "perform the tasks set by the West."
It's also important to remember that there's a racial component to all this as well. To most in the West the situation in Donbass just looks like white people (Ukrainian nationalists) fighting with other white people (ethnically Russian Ukrainian citizens), but these groups don't see it that way—the Azov Battalion (and I'd assume most of these other militias) view Russians as an non-white, Asiatic peoples, and thus racially inferior.