Below is my just-submitted article for this week’s edition of American Free Press. -KB
Azov Battalion: Why Mainstream Media Love Ukrainian Nazis
by Kevin Barrett, for American Free Press
The mainstream media insist that Azov Battalion fighters are heroes. Holed up inside the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Azov soldiers, we are told, have been bravely resisting the Russian invaders.
On April 24 The New York Times ran yet another pro-Azov story headlined: “Ukrainians in Mariupol’s steel mill are holding on despite intensifying attacks a commander tells The Times.” The Times nearly swooned over the courage and prowess of the Azov troopers: “The defense of the Azovstal factory in Mariupol is emblematic of the fierce and to many unexpected resistance of Ukrainian forces against their more powerful and more numerous adversaries. For nearly two months a relatively small band of fighters has withstood a relentless barrage of attacks from land sea and air ...”
The liberal media’s love affair with the Azov Battalion seems bizarre, given that same media’s ongoing demonization of “right-wing extremists” including Le Pen voters in France, Orban voters in Hungary, Trump voters in the US, and pretty much anyone who isn’t on board with the Biden presidency, internet censorship, COVID hysteria, transgender ideology, and various other fads, fallacies, and five thousand flavors of foolishness. If normal, sensible, tradition-minded people who happen to be somewhat immune to mass-formation psychosis are “right-wing extremists,” what does that make the Azov Battalion?