show me one neo-nazi brigade in the US military please.
Find out who the 3 percenters are. After that stunning revelation, I really did not care about the rest of your post.
While you are at it, you can tell us what is more dangerous, covert Neo-nazi's hidden within military battalions or overt Neo-nazi battalions. Here I will give you the answer, COVERT NEO-NAZIS hidden in the military which is what we have in the US.
As for the Azov unit in question, they number about 900. They are certainly zenophobic and very right wing and certainly have Neo-nazis in the ranks. As a battalion, the group fought on the front lines against pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, the eastern region of Ukraine.
A few months after recapturing the strategic port city of Mariupol from the Russian-backed separatists, the unit was officially integrated into the National Guard of Ukraine on November 12, 2014, and exacted high praise from then-President Petro Poroshenko who called them "the best fighters we have".
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Even Zelensky has seen fit to keep them together.
It should be understood by now that the entire separatist mess in the East was if anything a hoax designed as a pretext for a general invasion of Ukraine by Putin. Putin doesn't care about Donbas or the separatists. They are PAWNS. In effect those fighting for Ukraine in East Ukraine have already been fighting the war that is now broken out across Ukraine. When you are fighting Vladimir Putin, murderer, war criminal that he is, just about anybody can be your friend.
Before I forget, since Cawthorne found his way into the thread title, he is nothing more than another Putin boot licker. Hope your are proud North Carolina.