If the Americans were aware of all the stories of neo-Nazi behavior in
Ukraine, they might start to wonder why their government was so closely
allied with such people.
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Ukraine and Russian on the eastern end of Europe.(Photo BBC) |
Remember Arseniy Yatsenuk? The Ukrainian whom US State Department
officials adopted as one of their own in early 2014 and guided into the
position of Prime Minister so he could lead the Ukrainian Forces of Good against Russia in the new Cold War?
In
an interview on German television on January 7, 2015 Yatsenuk allowed
the following words to cross his lips: “We all remember well the Soviet
invasion of Ukraine and Germany. We will not allow that, and nobody has
the right to rewrite the results of World War Two”.
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Ukraine -- map showing language distribution; red area predominantly Russian speaking; dark red almost exclusively Russian speaking.(Photo CNN) |
The Ukrainian
Forces of Good, it should be kept in mind, also include several
neo-Nazis in high government positions and many more partaking in the
fight against Ukrainian pro-Russians in the south-east of the country.
Last June, Yatsenuk referred to these pro-Russians as “sub-humans”,
directly equivalent to the Nazi term “Untermenschen”.
So the next time you shake your head at some stupid remark made by a member of the US government, try to find some consolation in the thought that high American
officials are not necessarily the dumbest, except, of course, in their
choice of who is worthy of being one of the empire’s partners.
The type of rally held in Paris this month to condemn an act of terror by jihadists could
as well have been held for the victims of Odessa in Ukraine last May.
The same neo-Nazi types referred to above took time off from parading
around with their swastika-like symbols and calling for the death of
Russians, Communists and Jews, and burned down a trade-union building in
Odessa, killing scores of people and sending hundreds to hospital; many
of the victims were beaten or shot when they tried to flee the flames
and smoke; ambulances were blocked from reaching the wounded … Try and
find a single American mainstream media entity that has made even a
slightly serious attempt to capture the horror. You would have to go to
the Russian station in Washington, DC, RT.com, search “Odessa fire” for many stories, images and videos. Also see the Wikipedia entry on the 2 May 2014 Odessa clashes.
If the American
people were forced to watch, listen, and read all the stories of
neo-Nazi behavior in Ukraine the past few years, I think they – yes,
even the American people and their less-than-intellectual Congressional
representatives – would start to wonder why their government was so
closely allied with such people. The United States may even go to war
with Russia on the side of such people.
L’Occident n’est pas Charlie pour Odessa. Il n’y a pas de défilé à Paris pour Odessa. Source: Foreign Affairs
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