"Ukraine Nazi"

MAX PARRY—The crisis between western and eastern Ukraine and that between Russia and the United States and Europe is not new. It has endured for the past century and its current manifestation originated following the restoration of capitalism in Eastern Europe. Known as the ‘breadbasket of Europe’, the Ukraine with its 46 million people produced industrial goods and a quarter of the entire food in the Soviet Union prior to its independence.

The war in Ukraine is entering a new phase. NATO leaders are meeting and are clearly worried that the Zelenskyy government might agree to a negotiated end to the war. Brian Becker and Dr. Gabriel Rockhill discuss the internal politics in Ukraine with a focus on the role of the far right, fascists and neo-Nazis. Brian is joined by Dr. Gabriel Rockhill, Founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop and Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. You can check out his latest article on today’s subject at LiberationNews.org, titled, “Nazis in Ukraine: Seeing through the fog of the information war” CORRECTION: The far-right Ukrainian militant shown at 17:15 in this episode is actually Evgeney Karas, not Andriy Biletsky.

CYNTHIA CHUNG—The people of Donbass have understandably asked for independence from Ukraine, yet the Ukrainian government has refused to allow this nor intervene for a peaceful resolution. What does this mean? The war can only end when one side is fully dead.

Not only is it publicly known that the US and NATO have been funding and training neo-Nazis, but they have also been supplying a massive supply of arms (as previously mentioned). It got to such a point where in 2018, Congress had to ban the United States from sending further arms to Ukraine militia linked to neo-Nazis, specifically mentioning the Azov Battalion. For some reason this ban was to only last for three years thus it is apparently fair game now? But you may say, what about Russia’s crimes against the Ukrainian people, aren’t they far worse than even vicious neo-Nazis? Namely the bombing of the Mariupol theater and the Bucha massacre. Thorough journalistic investigations have already been done on the former, which can be found here, that conclusively shows the bombing of the Mariupol theater was a false-flag. Ditto for the Bucha “massacre”.

When Russian forces entered Ukraine this February 24, encircling the Ukrainian military in the east and driving towards Kiev, President Zelensky announced a national mobilization that included the release of criminals from prison, among them accused murderers wanted in Russia. He also blessed the distribution of arms to average citizens, and their training by battle-hardened paramilitaries like the Azov Battalion.

With fighting underway, Azov’s National Corps gathered hundreds of ordinary civilians, including grandmothers and children, to train in public squares and warehouses from Kharviv to Kiev to Lviv. (This was probably a publicity stunt suggested by US/UK advisors, who specialise in such devious tricks.—Ed)

This situation is difficult to explain from the point of view of not only diplomacy and politics, but also generally recognized ethics. German citizens ardently support Ukraine, suffer significant losses and, as they see it, violate their own certain principles: in Germany it is really not customary to supply not only heavy weapons, but any offensive weapons to hot spots.

But the same Scholz intends to spend another two billion euros on the purchase of new equipment in order to transfer it to Kiev later. Apparently, foreign equipment, because there is already not enough of their own – the Bundeswehr stated that the stocks were close to exhaustion, and if something was sent to Ukraine in excess of that sent, this would damage the combat capability of the German army.

However, the Ukrainian side does not appreciate this at all, periodically insulting Germany both at the level of the first person and at the level of the ambassador – Andriy Melnyk.

Melnyk is unique even by the standards of Ukraine’s degenerate diplomacy.