Yes, “appealing to the public” is a thing. Like surely even trump would have had at least an excuse on paper for choosing to favor Russia over Ukraine - and azov battalion is a good one, because hey, there really are Nazis. Absolutely “but what about azov” would have been a thing and you’d have to be uninformed to think otherwise.

The bizarre part here is you imagining Nazi logic has to make sense, when it notably does not, ever, have to make sense. Otherwise all the internal contradictions would fall apart - the only true tenent is strength and dominance.

> Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Like… never heard of “the night of the long knives” I guess. Fascists are only buddies up until they’re not.

In short: no, I don’t think a Russian-aligned fascist group would care in the least about stepping on a Ukrainian fascist group on the way to the top in their conquest of Ukraine.