A Tale Of Two Tattoos
The article juxtaposes the circumstances of two individuals who have recently been in the international media for different reasons and are united only by their peculiar neonazi aesthetic tastes.
The article juxtaposes the circumstances of two individuals who have recently been in the international media for different reasons and are united only by their peculiar aesthetic tastes. One is a veteran of the Ukrainian Azov battalion, the other attempted to assassinate the Vice President of Argentina. Here is an analysis from the twilight zone of geopolitics of the New Cold War about two tattoos belonging to two individuals which are clearly unrelated except for the tattooed symbol and on both their elbows.
The first of these individuals goes by the name of Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel and was detained and arrested moments after attempting to assassinate the Vice President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The man in question is of Brazilian origin, is 35 years old and is of Argentine nationality. In the hours after the assassination attempt, an image of the tattoo on his elbow went viral. The tattoo symbol is called Black Sun, also known as Sonnenrad, and is directly associated with Nazism and notions of racial supremacy, represented by a 12-spoke sun wheel that is used by neo-Nazi movements.
For the moment it is not known if the assassin acted alone or if there are other members in his terrorist circle, nor is it known yet if Sabag Montiel designed and executed the plan or if he was following orders from higher spheres of power. In short, there is a lot of suspicion inside Argentina and outside of it in the neighboring countries of the Global South where it is thought which element of the pro-US right wing in Argentina is directly involved. It may still be too early to know for sure, although it certainly fits the modus operandi of the Cold War political violence that Latin America suffered in the 1980s. It is suspected that the country's right-wing opposition tried to kill the Vice President, because she was a possible candidate to win the presidency in 2023. There is another theory that blames mainly the hybrid war information was campaign driven by lawfare against the Vice President and her party in recent weeks, as well as police violence against sympathizers and other leaders of the Justicialist Party alike.
Currently there has been a documented intensification of the US Hybrid War against the South American nation with the US Department of Justice and the FBI co-opting Argentine state powers to execute acts of piracy, by hijacking a Venezuelan transport plane and its crew, as well as enabling lawfare against Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Certainly the information war and the media campaign have been instrumental in destabilizing the Argentine political scenario by systematically increasing the use of symbolic violence against the Vice President with the use of body bags in the opposition’s demonstrations as well as a guillotine, for example clearly setting the tone for violence.
The orders of last August 27 given by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, head of government of the City of Buenos Aires, to establish a fence surrounding the accesses to Cristina Fernández's residence establish the indications of lawfare, of political persecution against Cristina Fernández, as well as inconsistencies of the prosecutor Diego Luciani and of the Macrista judges have de facto destroyed the rule of law by raising legal proceedings in a politicized manner, without evidence or concrete proof. Likewise, political leaders such as Ricardo López Murphy have fostered a "them against us" mentality in an unprecedented political ultra-polarization in Argentina.
The truth is that the Lawfare and the infowar are designed to destroy the political dialogue and above all the legal processes in Argentina – and in the rest of the Global South -- as part of the hybrid war against the continent since what is sought is to discredit in the media enough to condemn multipolar regional leaders to prison without a legitimate judicial process. Prosecutor Luciani's plea formalizing the current Lawfare made a request for 12 years of imprisonment, a request for perpetual disqualification against the Vice President of the nation that many categorized as persecutory judicial practices towards opposing political leaders without any concrete evidence as part of a hybrid war against Argentina.
The denouement of Larreta's orders occurred when the city police repressed demonstrators who gathered to support the Vice President of the nation. Violence was documented against Máximo Kirchner as he was beaten and insulted by police while trying to enter his mother's house. Luana Volnovich the executive director of PAMI as well as Axel Kicillof the governor of the province of Buenos Aires and other leaders also suffered violence by the city police. Physical political violence is manifested after destabilizing the social fabric with symbolic violence and fake news in an infowar campaign through social networks and pro-US media. Citizens of countries in the Global South should likewise communicate their opposition to political violence in Argentina and in each of their countries in the Global South. What is not entirely certain is whether Fernando, the man arrested for attempting to shoot the Vice President, was part of a plot to assasinate the argentinian leader or whether he acted alone and is a useful idiot manipulated by the infowar deployed by the pro-US press and the US co-opted de facto judicial apparatus inside Argentina.
The second individual of concern goes by the name of Ihor Halushka and is a Ukrainian military veteran, and of course also bears the Black Sun tattoo on his left elbow. This member of Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion has made a name for himself by receiving an award from liberal comedian Jon Stewart who was hosting the Department of Defense-sponsored "Warrior Games" event at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, August 19-28. The award-winning ultra-nationalist wore a sleeve over his left arm as he accepted the award, presumably to cover his Sonnenrad, or Black Sun, tattoo. The U.S. press is trying to spin the news of a liberal comedian of Jewish descent awarding a Ukrainian military veteran who is a member of one of Ukraine's neo-Nazi battalions.
The Azov battalion was considered to be the most exclusive and elite unit of the entire Ukrainian military apparatus. Although Azov was part of the Ukrainian military might, it did not answer to the Ukrainian army branch as such but was part of a parallel power structure under the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs that was established as a kind of political support army similar to the SS in Germany during the 1930s. It is clear that the symbol of the Black Sun should be banned internationally, and yet throughout the post-World War II period, the West, led by the United States, has maintained relations with Ukrainian neo-Nazis as part of an ongoing project, lumping them together as one faction among others that had been recruited to fight against the enemies of NATO countries, be it the Soviet Union and its allies.
In 2014 the Maidan Color Revolution took place against Ukraine with a very aggressive and violent minority took power within the vast country of Ukraine with the support of the pro-US Ukrainian oligarchs. Since the Maidan we saw again a blunt execution of the anti-Soviet strategy by the same Western actors, but this time against the Russian Federation. Although Nazism is not exactly the same as Stepan Bandera's ideology, they are two inseparable strains of fascism that have even competed with each other as ideologies. Ihor Halushka was part of the revitalization that the US-led West provided to Bandera's fascism since the Maidan through the CIA and the US State Department which never really stopped inciting hatred against Russia using any fringe group they could instrumentalize for their hybrid war which since 2022 became a proxy war against Russia.
The Golden Billion countries are desperately applying defense mechanisms to try to resist the inexorable global systemic transition towards multipolarity driven by Russia and China. Yesterday's anti-communist networks at the infowar level, at the lawfare level and at the information flow level are now turned into anti-multipolarist networks, which means a continuation of historical, geo-economic tensions and conflicts globally as part of a New Cold War.
There is still much information to be uncovered in the case of the assassination attempt against the Argentine Vice President to explain whether the attack received direct support from pro-US political entities or whether the psycho-cognitive effects are responsible here, propitiated by lawfare driven by a media info-war on the population of the target country. In short, there is a symbiotic relationship between these two tattoos whose impact on cognition and therefore on human behavior has been successfully exploited and deployed either directly through recruitment and training or indirectly through zombification of useful idiots.