"Karpatska Sich", Bashar Assad and the Kremlin - Nihilist

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Last week, the well-known Ukrainian neo-Nazi group “Carpathian Sich” distinguished itself by supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian conflict. The Facebook post was rather stupid, as it began with a story about Israel, continued with a fight against “globalism” and “liberalism,” and ended with the phrase “the witnesses of the genocide of Ukrainians in 1932-33 and those who are not destroying Syria are people of the same kind” (original spelling preserved). The anti-Semitic subtext was probably intended, but it turned out as if globalists and liberals were responsible for the Holodomor in Ukraine. The post did not provoke a positive reaction from readers, as many noted that Assad’s closest ally in the Syrian war is Vladimir Putin, which means that Ukrainian nationalists should not support a friend of Ukraine’s enemy. The logical question of who we are actually working for was repeatedly raised in the comments. However, it is known that "Carpathian Sich" is not lagging behind its European and American colleagues - what is stupidity for Ukrainians is a constant rhetorical figure for them.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the Holodomor monument in Kyiv, 2010

The reasons why the far right around the world supports Assad are obvious: an ideological commitment to authoritarianism, Islamophobia, and antipathy towards Israel, intersecting with anti-Semitism. Baathism, the official ideology of the ruling regime in Syria, rejects political pluralism and takes nationalist positions. The declared secularism combined with authoritarianism (and the most famous Baathist was, as we remember, Saddam Hussein) limits the freedom of Muslim religion. And although Assad’s standard justification is presented as “but Islamists force women to wear headscarves” (which is not without truth, of course — the “Islamic State” really does force women to wear headscarves), this is nothing more than a rhetorical figure for the gullible. The deeper thesis is that ISIS was created and sponsored by the US, which means that the fight against it is presented as anti-American, and we would be living well if the Americans did not bomb us and sponsor ISIS.

At the same time, Russia's interests are in the same plane - in the plane of an ideological authoritarian Islamophobic ideology, which, moreover, opposes the democratic countries of the first world. An example of the same rhetorical opposition can be found in the main ideologist of the current Russian regime, Alexander Dugin (emphasis mine):

"Assad asked us to help. Not just help. Assad asked us to save the Syrian people. This is our mission - to bring salvation to the peoples of the world. And there is someone to save from. If we do not stop this monstrous force, which, like a genie from a bottle, was released by American strategists, who, with the support of their Saudi and Qatari proxies, sow chaos and destruction everywhere - in Libya, Iraq, Yemen, then it will come to us."

Friends Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin

At the same time, Russia and the Western far right have reasons to cooperate: their cooperation destabilizes European integration and undermines European liberal and democratic values, legitimizes the regime in Russia by imitating “Western support” and broadcasts Russian propaganda theses aimed at a Western audience. Such cooperation has existed quite systematically in the last ten years, as experts have written a lot about . Following a similar pattern, cooperation between the European far right and Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Russia, began and continues after 2011. In the latter case, an additional bonus is Assad’s confrontation with Israel (and the fight is being waged not only against “globalism”, but also against “Zionism” ).

There are plenty of examples of the far right supporting Assad. In 2013, the leader of the British National Party, Nick Griffin, visited Syria and met with Prime Minister Waer Nadel al-Halqi in Damascus. The Greek autonomous far-right group, Black Lily, is fighting for hire on Assad’s side. In March of this year, a group of German far-right activists from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) visited Syria on a visit ostensibly to check on the ability of refugees to return home. A German delegation visited the state-controlled city of Homs. The Italian neo-fascists from the Casa Pound movement have also openly supported Assad – Simone di Stefano, the movement’s candidate for prime minister, has said that he likes the ideology of the Syrian state. Representatives of the party met with Syria’s first lady, Asma al-Assad, in 2016. There is an entire organization, the European Solidarity Front for Syria (ESFS), made up of representatives of far-right movements that organizes pro-Assad rallies in Europe.

The Italian delegation of the "European Solidarity Front with Syria" takes a photo with Syrian army soldiers in Damascus

All this, by the way, does not prevent (and perhaps even helps) the same political forces from opposing the influx of refugees from Syria - an objection of this kind is usually followed by the answer that they are supposedly running away from the rebels and ISIS, but if Assad wins, they will live well. Christian Bleks from AfD, the organizer of the aforementioned trip, directly calls the prospect of deporting refugees "more humane".

The American far right is not lagging behind its European counterparts. James Alex Fields Jr., known for the Charlottesville tragedy, has posted on his Facebook page not only the expected images of Pepe the Frog and Hitler as a child, but also a portrait of Assad in military uniform . Former (and most famous) leader of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke has also glorified Assad and admired him as a potential close ally. Another well-known American who has expressed sympathy for Assad is Richard Spencer, a leading figure in the alt-right movement . He deplored Donald Trump’s military strike against Assad’s forces and expressed hope that the two leaders would find common ground.

As we can see from all of the above, the KS statement rhetorically completely repeats the general line of defense of Assad among the pro-Russian far right in Europe - here is latent anti-Semitism, and the fight against "globalism", and the assertion of support for ISIS from the West. Can we consider that the KS's integration into this Kremlin international is a simple coincidence? As they say, I don't think so.

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