Quote Originally Posted by mojo
You're acting like you can boil down a person's entire being into "Do they support Nazis?" without allowing for a nuanced answer.
I'm sorry but it feels like we're forgetting that Nazis were responsible for the worst genocide in history.

Anyone who supports Nazis supports genocide. That's an unavoidable fact. There's no nuance there.

Is the moral position to not support Ukraine because of the existence of Azov so important to you that you can turn a blind eye to the actual torture and execution of people - including children - and the bombing of civilian infrastructure to deliberately cause people to freeze to death in the winter and the kidnapping and deportation of thousands of Ukrainian children?
If we can prove Russia are committing war crimes, then we take that through the correct legal channels, which means sanctions and international arrest warrants. Oh and precisely the same is true of Ukraine, who are also reportedly torturing people - including children - and attempting to drive Russian speaking people out of Eastern Ukraine, with no regard for how cold they are this winter.

This isn't good vs evil.

Is your stance against Nazism so strong that you can ignore the actual harm being done based on your fear of the potential harm that a couple hundred Nazis can do?
We have an opportunity here to put massive pressure on Ukraine to rid their institutions of Nazis. If they won't, then we sit by and do nothing, they are not allies. If they do, then we can call them allies and maybe even talk about NATO.

We're not taking this opportunity. Instead we're turning a blind eye and even sending them money and weapons. That tells the world that the West considers Russia to be a more serious threat than Nazis. This is contrary to what history has taught us.

There are more than a couple of hundred Nazis in Ukraine. There's probably more than that in the UK.