From de Veer Magazine

Alexandr Maksimenko A small contingent of the Azov Regiment in Kiev, Ukraine. Courtesy:

By Ann-Marie de Veer

Saturday 6 February 2016

On 18 December 2015 the Obama regime signed off on House Resolution 2029 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, an omnibus spending bill that authorises the military voyeurs in the Pentagon to spend US$ 250 million in Ukraine:

US Bill 2029, Page 154, SEC. 9014: to provide assistance, including training; equipment; lethal weapons of a defensive nature; logistics support, supplies and services; sustainment; and intelligence support to the military and national security forces of Ukraine, and for the replacement of any weapons or defensive articles provided to the Government of Ukraine from the inventory of the United States:.

The Azov Regiment in Ukraine, formerly known as the Azov Battalion until it gained National Guard status in January 2015 and subsequently became mechanised with soviet era T-64 and T-72 tanks in early June the same year, were eventually withdrawn from the front line of the Ukrainian conflict in August 2015: the US puppet regime of Poroshenko in Kiev moved most of the neo-Nazi and neo-fascist elements of the military forces that were on the front line in the Southeast of the country to the rear echelons, including the Azov Regiment who were relocated to a base in Urzuf near Mariupol. The relocation of the neo-Nazi and neo-fascist front line forces in Ukraine was not out of respect for the Minsk I & Minsk II Protocols, two quadlateral agreements aimed at curtailing hostilities and fostering peace in the region that are continually being flouted by the Poroshenko Junta, but were in preparation for the start of Operation Fearless Guardian II which began on the 23 November 2015.

Operation Fearless Guardian I & II (OFG) is a US regime sponsored training and arming mission of the Ukrainian Junta's neo-Nazi and neo-fascist military forces, aka. US terrorist training, scheduled to run from April 2015 through to November 2016.

While the US House of Representatives are known to have passed an amendment in June 2015 to the Defense Appropriations Act, 2015, which barred any aid, including training and the supply of weapons, to the Azov Battalion as well as any other neo-Nazi and neo-fascist sympathisers among the Ukrainian forces, the House Resolution 2029 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 is noted for not precluding the funding of any of these entities. The facts are: the funding, training and arming of these neo-Nazi's and neo-fascists entities in Ukraine, aka. domestic terrorists, who were previously nurtured and widely supported by the CIA, are now officially sanctioned and can rely on the open support of the Obama regime via its incompetent and sycophantic military apparatchiks in the Pentagon.

It is worth noting that the creation of the Azov Battalion is rooted in the Ukrainian Social-National Assembly (SNA) party: the SNA of Ukraine is known to have emerged from an amalgamation of four right-wing extremist organisations in 2008 which included the Patriot of Ukraine, a paramilitary national socialist group created and led by Andriy Biletsky. Biletsky's particular brand of national socialism, not too dissimilar to that of the Nazi's in the German Third Reich, is based on the notions of white supremacy, racial purity, intolerance of sexual and gender diversity, authoritarian rule and a centralised national economy. The SNA subsequently merged with the Ukrainian Right Sector in November 2013 who have mysteriously disappeared from the political radar, as of November 2015, claiming their work is done. Biletsky is the current commander of the Azov Regiment.

In other words: the Poroshenko Junta in Ukraine is in the process of legitimising its neo-fascists and neo-Nazi's, by formerly changing their military status, and then sanitising their provenance, by removing all links and references to their right-wing extremist past. Similarly, the Obama regime, in openly and directly funding, training and supplying these extremist groups within the country is not only assisting the Junta in legitimising their quasi-military status but, more importantly, it is now instrumental in the formalisation and growth of an extremist right-wing fascist military force whose ideology and modus operandi mirrors the Nazi's of the German Third Reich, aka. the Shutzstaffel, who are more commonly known as the SS.

Clearly, there can be no doubt whatsoever about the intentions of the Obama regime in Ukraine: Obama is funding, training and arming a neo-fascist and neo-Nazi paramilitary force who will go on to commit atrocities and acts of terrorism at some point in the future.

The question is not if, but when.

If it looks like a terrorist, it is acts likes a terrorist, if it walks likes a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist ... it's a terrorist, right?