Italian police raid of neo-fascist militants finds air-to-air missile
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Re: Italian police raid of neo-fascist militants finds air-to-air missile
#2What's the yellow weapon that they showed in the haul?
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Scree...
Re: Italian police raid of neo-fascist militants finds air-to-air missile
#3What's the yellow weapon that they showed in the haul? https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Scree...
That's the receiver and stock group for a Steyr AUG. There are complete examples in the top right corner.
Re: Italian police raid of neo-fascist militants finds air-to-air missile
#4What's the yellow weapon that they showed in the haul? https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Scree...
Looks like a Steyr AUG
Re: Italian police raid of neo-fascist militants finds air-to-air missile
#5What's the yellow weapon that they showed in the haul? https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Scree...
That's the receiver and stock group for a Steyr AUG. There are complete examples in the top right corner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steyr_AUG
Ah thanks, I see, it's just missing it's barrel
Re: Italian police raid of neo-fascist militants finds air-to-air missile
#6Anyone with more insight into all of this than me who can explain why they went to fight on the Russian side? I mean, there surely were neo-nazis around on both sides of that conflict, right? Just different flavours? I wonder how you pick who to support if your core ideology is that "people different from us are bad".
Re: Italian police raid of neo-fascist militants finds air-to-air missile
#7Anyone with more insight into all of this than me who can explain why they went to fight on the Russian side? I mean, there surely were neo-nazis around on both sides of that conflict, right? Just different flavours? I wonder how you pick who to support if your core ideology is that "people different from us are bad".
Yeah! The Ukrainians had small but vocal numbers of fascist volunteers on _their_ side, and that got a lot of bad press and the Russian side went to great lengths to paint the whole of Ukraine as fascist. So its really surprising they'd have fascists going to the _Russian_ side.
Re: Italian police raid of neo-fascist militants finds air-to-air missile
#8Anyone with more insight into all of this than me who can explain why they went to fight on the Russian side? I mean, there surely were neo-nazis around on both sides of that conflict, right? Just different flavours? I wonder how you pick who to support if your core ideology is that "people different from us are bad".
That would be a Hollywood version of the ideology. Right extreme groups are quite a tangled mess. Many of these groups in Europe are looking up to Russia (and Poland, and Hungary, and Serbia) right now. Those eastern european countries are perceived as the possible source for a European nationalist renaissance, as they display a strong stance against both european federalism and mass immigration.
Obviously, that vision of Eastern European countries' politics is just as oversimplified as Hollywood's neonazism, but the war between Russia and Ukraine has been largely presented by western supporters as a war between nationalism and european blending.
Re: Italian police raid of neo-fascist militants finds air-to-air missile
#9Anyone with more insight into all of this than me who can explain why they went to fight on the Russian side? I mean, there surely were neo-nazis around on both sides of that conflict, right? Just different flavours? I wonder how you pick who to support if your core ideology is that "people different from us are bad".
I find it weird too, especially considering that Donbass and Luhansk declared themselves People's Soviets. I think it's just shoddy journalism and those people actually fought alongside Ukranian troops.
Re: Italian police raid of neo-fascist militants finds air-to-air missile
#10Anyone with more insight into all of this than me who can explain why they went to fight on the Russian side? I mean, there surely were neo-nazis around on both sides of that conflict, right? Just different flavours? I wonder how you pick who to support if your core ideology is that "people different from us are bad".
They didn‘t fight on the russian side. For some reason english media mistranslated original press release.
https://www.poliziadistato.it/articolo/225d2c47fb2c9ef299497... It says "avevano combattuto nella regione ucraina del Donbass contro gli indipendentisti". So they were fighting against separatists.