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So about Russia's SWIFT sanction, my bank has redeposited a recent gift I'd made to a Russian individual whom I'm friends with from their time as a college student in the U.S. (U of Minnesota). My bank is saying they no longer have a way to do business with Russian banks or bank accounts accessed by those within Russia.

It got me thinking about the 2 or 3 missionaries assigned to Russia in concert with my Dad's church and the IMB (International Missions Board based out of Richmond VA). Yes they would have American Bank accounts but the headache would be accessing those accounts while they are in Russia. By recommendation of our State Department, American citizens are advised to leave Russia, but missionaries usually ignore this. However, an inability to access their funds might force them back.

For anyone wondering why I send my Russian friend funds once in a while, it is because outside of Moscow and Saint Petersburg Russians live in Third World destitution and grow up in a surprisingly self-destructive culture that leaves too many broken beneath a very long and still active history of widespread corruption, bribery, alcoholism, inescapable poverty, and reinforced ignorance. $100 goes a long way.

If you 1) have 20 minutes to read and 2) don't mind weathering the disbelief over how depressing growing up and living in Russia is, check out this article:

https://medium.com/@meohoh/twelve-reasons-why-russia-sucks-9ceb0feddcd6

not sure why you posted this

it doesnt answer my question

where is the UN in all of this

the UN is a toothless, feckless, useless organization that has no real power. They've done nothing about American or Israeli atrocities for decades, in large part because America has used it's veto power to block any UN resolutions or action as one of the permanent members of the UN security council. 

They can't do anything now either. Russia also has veto power as one of the five permanent members of the UN security council.

Putin uses the term "Nazi" to refer to enemies, he knows it arouses feelings in Russia.  It's simply a tactic to justify the invasion of Ukraine internally.

I am fairly sure the morale of the Russian soldier is pitiful and they have to be given some justification for shooting other Russian speaking folks who look like them.

It reminds me in some few respects of the US Civil War.

this. +1.

Yeah, so they aren't supposed neo-nazis, they are neo-nazis. And the Ukraine gov't has given political cover and made concessions to some of these neo-nazi groups and actually incorporated some of them into their official armed forces. I can link you article after article from news source after news source, even ones from Bellingcat (who have been accused of just being a CIA front) - that prove this beyond a shadow of a doubt.

I think this is just Putin using a small kernel of truth- and stretching it out massively to fit his narrative in his justification of this war. Every country has to come up with bullsh*t reasons and propaganda to start an invasion of another country. US are experts at this. There is a small, but dangerous neo-nazi element in Ukraine- with hooks into the gov't and armed forces- and Putin has tried to use this as propaganda to say the entire population is full of neo-nazis (even though the neo-nazi political parties got less than 3% of the vote in their last elections)  and the entire gov't are neo-nazis- which is obviously ridiculous and not true.

What asking is when Russians use the term "nazi" do they think of Nazis less as anti-Jew and more as anti-Russia.

I still don't know what anyone expects the UN to be able to do here, even if Russia is not on the SC.  The main body voted against the invasion recently, and?

Nada.

I don't know what anyone expects NATO to do about this either beyond being on alert and trying to send stuff to Ukraine.  There must be an open link from Kyiv west that is still open, I expect that to get closed soon, if not already.

Take away the Holocaust, and Hitler and the Nazis still started by far the most destructive war in history.  I don't think they'd be any also ran in history.  

WW II led to the most casualties in any US war as well, save the Civil.  The Nazis probably would have had a more effective war machine had they more or less tolerated the Jews.  Many German Jews fought effectively in WW One, and a couple were influential in technical matters.

Haber comes to mind, though he tried to act like he wasn't Jewish.  Think of the "Einsteins" who left Germany because of Hitler.