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Anyway, so he talked about Andrew Beletsky who's called the White Führer. He was born in 79 and emerged from the radical fringes of Ukrainian nationalism and is now one of the most powerful military figures in the country. In 99 he attended a trial with Serbia to fight alongside the Serb forces against the Muslims, where the genocide happened. And in the early 2000s he led a local cell at the Social Nationalist Party of Ukraine, which is a national socialist party. No, no, social nationalism is this different. Neo Nazi organization that openly embraces Hitlerism and in 2004 he split from the Social National SNPU, there we go, which he deemed too liberal founding his own organization, which is called Patriot of Ukraine. And those fucking Nazis are too liberal. Between 2000 and 2014 Patriot of Ukraine conducted violent raids against Vietnamese migrant
workers and other non-noin immigrants. And he published numerous tracks condemning race-mixing immigration and what he termed as turning Ukraine into the third world. He transformed the Patriot of Ukraine into the as-off paramilitary movement, initially as a volunteer battalion to fight against Russian-backed separatists in the Donbass. And now he commands the third Army Corps, which alongside the first Army Corps control about 100,000 troops. Both the first and the third Army Corps are the as-off former as-off brigade, now as-off corps. He, Zelensky has promoted Biletsky and his network. He recently promoted him or not recently. He was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in order to receive command of the Corps. The third Corps controls the entire Donbass front line, which is the most strategically critical sector. He's been awarded the Hero of Ukraine Medal, which is the highest military honor, it's
like the Medal of Honor. And recently, Biletsky's ally, General Mikhail Drapati, who has long been a cool cooperative with him, been an ally of Biletsky. He was recently made head of the Army, which means that allows as-off to command the first Corps, the third Corps, and have one of its major backers and allies in command of the entire military. So Biletsky is among the most trusted figures in Ukraine right now. His followers refer to him as the Providnik, which is a rough translation, it means furor in Ukrainian. His youth paramilitary organization, Centuria, openly glorifies neo-Nazi mass murderers, like Britain, Terrant, the Australian terrorists who massacred 51 Muslims in Christchurch. Other notable figures, neo-Nazi figures that are part of the as-off constellation that
are prominent in Ukraine are Denis Prokopenko, who is the commander of the first as-off Corps. And he's famously rubbed shoulders with Zilensky kind of regularly. And Evan Katas, who's the commander of the 413th separate battalion of unmanned systems, meaning he's one of the drone commanders. And he was recently hosted in London at Chatham House in 2025 to advise Europe's future. And he is also a big proponent of not having elections. Artem Krasnolutsky, who's the commander of hatred battalion, which is a neo-Nazi volunteer unit that has been absorbed into the as-off, he's got giants, that's a hell of a name, hatred at the time. He's got a giant swastika tattooed on his torso. And Oleg Shirov, who's the commander of the 225th assault regiment, has got connections,
I mean, all of these people do, but he's got explicit connections to organized crime and spends most of his time in Dubai. And he's accused of executing deserters and he planted marijuana on a critic of his to get him arrested. Then there's Denis or White Rex Kapustin, who is the leader of the Russian volunteer corps. We talked about him pretty extensively. He's the neo-Nazi satanist guy who loves Hitler and Gerbels and he left Russia for Germany on a visa for Jews because he is Jewish. And he is a public supporter of Israel and subscribes to IDF babes on Twitter and he's constantly posts pro-Israel content. Wait, he subscribes to IDF babes? Yeah, Twitter's. Does that follow? It just sounds like a joke. It just sounds like that's something you made up to throw in there, but no. So Kapustin illustrates Ukrainian neo-Nazi's peculiar relationship with Zionism,
despite it being, like, as of being the most influential neo-Nazi group in the world, and Kapustin being the most influential neo-Nazi in the post-Soviet world, he, as I mentioned, entered Germany on a Jewish visa program and he loves Israel. His R.D.K fighters are described as fanatically pro-Israel. And it's funny, what's his name? Peter Kuergethiew, the guy who runs this substax, he quotes a joke and it's in the joke is a Russian nationalist can kill Muslims any day of the week except Saturdays. Yeah. That ties us into the Laura Lumer's journey from Antiochkraine to Pro-Ukraine. She recently did an interview with Baletsky. And she's a prominent MAGA influencer and I just listen to Max Blumenthal talk about Laura Lumer
for a while. It turns out that she probably doesn't really believe in anything. Like, she's a right-winger, but mostly likes the grifter. Yeah. Like, she seems like a person who actually has a belief of any kind. She's taken money from several different competing sources and I think she took money to be pro-lifting sanctions on Venezuela. At the same time, the Trump administration was getting ready to crack down on Venezuela because she took money from some oil executive who wanted to get the United States back into Venezuela developing oil extraction there. But anyway, so that's one example of it. Blumenthal listed a bunch of them and I suggest you go check out his journalism on the subject. But anyway, so she herself has a Jewish father who's from Ukraine, but her mother isn't Jewish. So that means by halakiklah, she's not a Jew.
Right. She had and Blumenthal calls her a Shabba-Sgoi. Basically, that Shabba-Sgoi. Yeah. That she does the dirty work for like the, like the Zionists who don't want to get their hands dirty by being as scummy as she is doing the openly racist dirty work on the internet and smearing people. She basically is a rat-fucker for hire, essentially. She had previously criticized Ukraine, talking about how they're basically gripping the United States and they don't deserve our support. And after this meeting with Androbaletsky, she says that she has satisfied that Azav is good for the Jews. And Baletsky told her that he ruthlessly punishes any support and is displaying Nazi symbolism, which I don't know if you've ever seen
pictures of Azav, any of the pictures of Azav that have been released from 2014 to now, but there's Nazi symbolism everywhere, including their official logos. Yeah, like including their helmets and their arm patches and their everything. All of the fucking SS symbolism that they use everywhere and like the swastika flags that they have, in their bases. But anyway, so Lumer praised Ukraine for not having a single Muslim supposedly, which means according to her that Ukraine does a better job at keeping a certain hostile threats out of their country. And she believes that Ukraine has less anti-Semitism than America, which is a wild fucking claim. Because not even Israel says that. In fact, Israel refuses to even though they're like their homies, they refuse to openly support Ukraine because of the blatant anti-Semitism. And that really should tell you a lot. That should tell you all you need to know.
So basically, Carl Tyev says that Lumer was likely paid by Akmetov, who's a, I don't remember the guy's first name, but he's a Tatar Muslim who is a big funder of Azam. So she was likely paid by Akmetov to come to Ukraine and interview Billetsky. That's what Carl Tyev says. I don't know if it's true or not, but he says that that's the suspicion. And then of course, Carl Tyev also says that she isn't even Jewish and has probably adopted the whole Judaism's stick for the political justification to hate anybody. She deems the third worlder. So, Billetsky and Lumer share a common enemy, third world people. So in, she said, and Israel is at the forefront of the struggle against the third world menace starting with women and children. Those are the Kortyas words. There's a pretty interesting,
he doesn't interesting bit on Zionism and Ukrainian nationalism having historic ties and that there is a kinship between the two. And he says that the Zionism, erotical Ukrainian nationalism are ideologically intertwined through four key similarities. There are a violent antidote to victimhood. Both movements present the cells as necessary violent responses to historic persecutions. They have a rejection of morality. The OUN's 1929 decalogue includes quote, you will not hesitate to commit the greatest crime if the good of the cause requires it. And you will receive the enemies of your nation with hatred and treachery. And Jabotinsky famously argued that morality is irrelevant when creating Israel. They have an anti-simulationist obsession. Both movements are deeply preoccupied with annihilating a simulationism and resurrecting a language that was more or less unused. So Ukrainian, as a language in the West, the Eastern portion of Ukraine was unused. Still is mostly Russian
speakers there. And both Zionism and Slavic ethno-nationalism emerged not from religious communities, but from secular intellectuals. So Jabotinsky was born in Odessa and he spearheaded the revision of Zionist movement in early 20th century, created paramilitary groups that would forge Israel during the 1948 knockback. And he hardly supported Ukrainian nationalist Simon Petlira, who was funnily enough assassinated by a Jewish assassin for the pogroms that he committed. He appreciated Petlira as a quote, a fellow against two assimilationist projects, the Russian Empire and the Socialist, particularly the Bolshevik plague. So Jabotinsky supported forced immigration of Jews and from Europe by the Third Reich, seeking help from Third Reich allied governments. And he changed his name from Vladimir to Zeev, so Zeev Jabotinsky, meaning wolf
and Hebrew, because he was trying to abandon the crucified lim- quote, crucified limperist-ed Yidd name. So today he's Israel's most commemorated historical figure, and the Ukrainian state has memorialized and awarded Jabotinsky numerous times since 2021. The parallel figure that he draws to Jabotinsky is Demetro Donsov, who he calls the Ukrainian Mussolini. He is the intellectual load star of the Nazi collaborationist OUN, organization of Ukrainian nationalists. He was originally a Russian speaking Molo-Ros, meaning a small Russian. He started off as a cosmopolitan socialist, but embraced an ethnocentric cult of violence that idealized European colonial projects and supported forced Jewish immigration from Europe. That's quite the jump from one to the other. Right. His 1929 book Nationalism is constantly reprinted by Azov, and Azov claims that their
wolf-songle symbol is actually a visualization of his quote, idea of the nation, which is a creative interpretation to deflect Nazi allegations. And we talked about this before. The eye in the end are those those aren't those those aren't Cyrillic characters, and Ukrainian still uses Cyrillic characters. Yeah. And in the 1983 historians meeting at a rare meeting of Ukrainian and Jewish nationalist historians, Israeli historians urged Ukrainian historians to emulate their precision regarding the Holocaust, saying that Ukrainian scholars need to document the holodomor with the the rigor that they document the Holocaust. Instead of simply crying about Ukrainians that have been persecuted or killed, they need to say how many were and by whom. And the and Cortiav notes that Ukrainian historians constantly attempt to exceed the six million figure of Holocaust victims to make it seem that the the holodomor was worst was worse than the holocaust. And which
this is particularly what leads the Israeli government to refuse recognition of the holodomor. Hmm. So both Zionism and Ukrainian nationalism obsess over combating assimilation. Maloros was the historical term for Ukrainians in the Russian Empire. Now it's a term used to abuse Ukrainians who listen to too much Russian music or insufficiently enthusiastic to wage another thousand year struggle against muskhovie. That that was a quote. And that parallels as early the early Zionist obsession with berating assimilated Jews as being quote, lipirist and yid's absent any sense of manly nationhood. According to Cortiav, Ukraine is the great unifier of opposites. Zionists and neo-Nazi, Republican and Democrat, the war is created a system where the dualities aren't so different after all. And really if you know anything about Republicans and Democrats and Zionists
and Nazis, you'll know that there's not a whole lot of difference there. There's actually not a very great difference at all. Two sides of them. Two sides of the same coin. Yeah. Yeah, like France different than back. You know, the front Scott, Franklin Roosevelt on it, the back Scott, like the Treasury Department or something. Yeah, that's right. Front is different than back. Yeah. All right. So let's talk about frontline analysis. So the fourth operational brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine has reported that Russian infiltration tactics are more effective than they've been giving credit for. And they, this essentially confirms what independent analysts have been saying for years, infiltration tactics are not nothing. They have a real military effect, effect and even when drones eliminate infiltrators, the tactics still achieve strategic objectives. The effects of infiltration are force mobilization. Ukrainian forces have to respond. They draw the
amount of secure positions. Reconnaissance provides intelligence on Ukrainian positions. Reconnaissance by fire, infiltrators can draw fire, revealing defensive positions, which can be hit by artillery, fab bombs, missile strikes or other drones. And of course, drawing them out of their positions allows drones to observe Ukrainian movements and reactions. Now, anytime Russians command a spot, anytime Russian command spots a high-value target, they get there as he 34s in the air and they launch glide bombs. And these glide bombs are approximately 200 kilogram explosive payloads. And that's a small, a small one, which are abundant, but they go all the way up to 1500 or 3000 kilogram variants. And they have a pretty decent range and they can't be shot down like drones or too fast and too numerous. The damage capabilities are there able to collapse fortified bridges, destroy bunkers, level entire city blocks, and they're more effective than traditional artillery.
So if you, if these little infiltration units draw fire, Russian drones can see where the fire is coming from and then launch a glide bomb into it. And there's videos of glide bombs taking out entire fortified tree lines with a single glide bomb. And SU-34 losses are remarkably low. Like I don't, I can't, I guess maybe one of them went down at the beginning of the war that I vaguely remember, but like the last loss was a couple of months ago and that was due to mechanical issues. And Russian units are pretty well trained according to the Ukrainians. Not the official Ukrainians, but Ukrainians that actually have to do the fighting on the battlefront with them. Russian units train in abandoned towns in northern Russia and artillery units conduct exercises first, flattening old Soviet towns that have been abandoned, infantry then move in to conduct urban warfare training in destroyed areas that had been recently destroyed by actual artillery fire.
And the reasoning is that real urban battlefields will be destroyed, not ready made with intact structures, which is actually kind of a brilliant way to train soldiers. Yeah, kind of is. A very Russian way to train soldiers. Like we've got an empty town, let's destroy it with our artillery fire and train our soldiers in it.
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