RT Wonders If Ukraine Has a Nazi Problem While Russia Has... A Nazi Problem?
RT – Russia's state-controlled media – breathlessly highlights alleged neo-Nazi elements in Ukraine. This narrative is a cornerstone of the Kremlin's justification for its war (or 'special military operation'). Yet, the same RT carefully sidesteps the documented rise of far-right, ultranationalist, and indeed, neo-Nazi groups within Russia itself. Critics like historian Mark Galeotti have detailed
Russian ultranationalist movements, often with strong ties to the government and military, like the Wagner Group's founders having been photographed with Nazi symbols. When you live in a glass dacha, throwing stones at your neighbor's window about their 'neo-Nazi problem' seems less like journalism and more like projection. One might wonder if RT's editors ever pause to consider the optics of a
state-funded outlet, operating under a government that routinely uses 'denazification' as a casus belli, while their own military groups display iconography reminiscent of the Third Reich. The selectivity of outrage, it appears, is a highly refined art form in state propaganda, where the mirror is always facing the other guy. (Perhaps the 'neo-Nazi problem' is an international phenomenon, best
discussed from a country where it's not a state secret.)