Maajid Nawaz: Nazis in Ukraine Have Not Been Banned By Zelenskyy, Incorporated Them in the National Guard

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NAWAZ: “And Bandera, the man that they revere, was actually a Nazi and they made him into a national hero and icon. The Nazis in Ukraine have not been banned by Zelenskyy. And so, this is a very interesting point that you've got a man that we're hailing as a democratic icon, who is fighting for freedom and democracy and our way of life, banning all opposition parties, controlling through the state the media narrative, while refusing not only to ban Nazis, but having, after not banning them, incorporated them into his state, Azov as a battalion, formerly serfs in the Ukrainian National Guard. Now, people say to that in response, you know, 'Maajid, there are racists in every country.' No, the analogy here is, imagine, Tucker, in America, the KKK had a formal battalion in the U.S. Military. That’s what we’ve got with swastikas and Nazi insignia inside the Ukrainian army. And then people would say, 'Well, what do you want to do? Putin invaded their country, of course they have to fight.' I find this line of argument absolutely absurd, because the best analogy is with Syria. Now, allying with Nazis in Ukraine to beat Putin is as absurd as allying with ISIS in Syria to defeat Putin . You’ve got an extremist, an armed extremist terrorist militia known as ISIS, none of us had any moral difficulty in understanding that Assad was a dictator, that Putin's support for Assad was wrong, but the people opposing him, the jihadists, were also wrong. Why can’t we have that moral complexity when it comes to Ukraine?"