US lifts weapons ban on Ukraine's Azov brigade. Do you think this decision is correct?

[Alben Barkley]

Guess we shouldn’t have been providing Stalin with weapons in 1942 right? Since he was a bad guy?

You might say “Oh but this time THESE are the Nazis.” But they’re still not the bigger threat right now, by all accounts most of the genuine Nazi/far right element was purged, and they’ve even had Jewish leaders. They aren’t the same as the old Nazis, seems like it was more of a LARP than anything.

[Alben Barkley]

Anyone who supports this cannot cry about how the U.S. supported right wing paramilitaries in Central America during the 1980s. Especially since the ideology of Azov is much worse than the ideology of those paramilitaries.

What they were actually doing was far worse, regardless of who you want to argue has the worse ideology in the abstract sense. Going around assassinating and murdering their political opponents and executing and massacring civilians, selling cocaine and other drugs. They were essentially organized crime gangs suppressing the left in their countries. Not defending their nation from an imminent existential threat.