Anti-Putin Russian Militia Has Ties to Neo-Nazi and Anti-Trans Figures / Ben Makuch
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🗓️ 26 July 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, This is hell. This is hell. Oh, duke. |
| 0:34.0 | Manufacturing descent since 1996. |
| 0:39.0 | This is hell. |
| 0:42.0 | The military general strategist philosopher writer Sun Sioux is |
| 0:46.6 | quoted saying the enemy of my enemy is my friend. That phrase is also believed to be an ancient Sanskrit saying. |
| 0:57.0 | However, it didn't really gain the popularity it has today until the Cold War and a misapplication of the phrase in a recent Star Trek movie. |
| 1:06.2 | But what happens when you apply that maxim in a situation where you are fighting an authoritarian |
| 1:11.7 | who just happens to be to have very very distasteful enemies. |
| 1:16.1 | Following that logic can geopolitically become very, very problematic as well. |
| 1:20.9 | Now what happens if the enemy of your enemy happens to be opposed to, let's say |
| 1:26.7 | Drag Queen's Story Hour, even protesting outside such events by using the Sieghile salute or is violent and into what are called |
| 1:37.6 | active clubs getting into fights at events across the United States. |
| 1:42.0 | Combine all that with an infatuation with mixed martial arts |
| 1:46.3 | and a desire to fight alongside ultra-nationalists |
| 1:49.2 | in Eastern Europe, |
| 1:50.6 | Nubi could be creating a toxic brew of far-right neo-Nazi anti-trans blowback. |
| 1:56.0 | Or the whole thing could just be goose-stepping online reactionaries trying to get clicks and street cred for their own neo-Nazi movement back home. |
| 2:05.0 | Who knows? |
| 2:07.0 | Well, in a few minutes we'll try to figure out who is fighting or hoping to fight, |
| 2:11.0 | alongside ultra-nationalists Russians against the government of Vladimir Putin |
| 2:15.7 | but unaffiliated with Ukraine's military and why they're fighting when we speak with national |
| 2:22.0 | security reporter Ben Mackich |
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