andyh wrote:
Actually we don't know that the nazis in Ukraine are EU or US sponsored.
In fact, they could be something that both the Russians and the EU and/or US are simply capitalizing on.
After all, the BNP and EDL are quite a natural emergence over here and supposedly in opposition to the EU and the nazis in the Ukraine are leaning towards the Russians not the EU.
I think there is some confusion about who the anti-Russian elements are, politically. Some say the nationalist "rebels" are a right wing Neo-Nazis. Others, the EU/US want to label them as a freedom loving democratic peoples uprising. There doesn't seem to be any real clarity.
The EDL has a deep, deep history. In it's early days it was a US, Neo-Con sponsored anti-Islamist - non-racist protest/lobby group. It underwent a radical change after its original leader was ousted in a cou d'etat and saw the rise of it's new leader, Robinson. In its earlier incarnation its membership were very anti-BNP and any association with BNP was rigorously rooted out.
After the coup - its position changed radically and the BNP became the ones who considered EDL a pariah organisation and tried, unsuccessfully, to keep its distance.
EDL was co-opted and used as a pawn to discredit the anti-EU lobby .....and ultimately collapsed as was planned once it was no longer a useful tool of....whoever?
There is a lot more to the EDL story - and it is fair to say they were nothing more than a tool, and Robinson was a placeman controlled by puppet masters with an agenda of....
I watched the shenanigans for a long time. And MSM exploited them mercilessly - as was intended.
Smoke and Mirrors at work.