The best analysis for what’s going on in the Ukraine War comes from The Duran on YouTube. Yesterday at the beginning they pointed out Ukraine President Zelensky appeared, via video, before the Greek parliament, something nobody else seems to have noticed. One of the Duran guys, Alex Christoforou, is an American of Greek background currently living in Athens. He pointed out next to Zelensky stood two members of the Neo-Nazi Azov Battallion.
These are not Neo-Nazis like in America, where 80% of members are FBI agents. These are actual Neo-Nazis that kill people and have integrated with Ukraine’s government. When Brett Baier asked Zelensky about Azov Battalion's shooting of Russian POWs, Zelensky's replied, "They are what they are."
Christoforou said the Azov appearance disturbed Greeks because Hitler brutally occupied their country from 1941-44. He thinks the Azov Neo-Nazis appeared with Zelensky to show who’s really running Ukraine. That means President Biden has hooked America and Europe up to Neo-Nazis.
Another analysis comes from Consortium News and two of our best journalists, Max Blumenthal and Alex Rubenstein, “How Zelensky Made Peace With Neo-Nazis.” Summary: “While Western media deploys Zelensky’s heritage to refute accusations of Neo-Nazis in Ukraine, the president now depends on them as front line fighters in the war with Russia.”
In his speech in Poland, Biden said, “Putin has the gall to say he’s ‘de-Nazifying’ Ukraine. It’s a lie. It’s just cynical. He knows that. And it’s also obscene. President Zelenskyy was democratically elected. He’s Jewish. His father’s family was wiped out in the Nazi Holocaust. And Putin has the audacity, like all autocrats before him, to believe that might will make right.”
Except what’s happening is what we in America call a “strange bedfellows” coalition. A good example came the other day when Sean Hannity had on his show actor Sean Penn. Hannity began by saying he and Penn probably don’t agree about anything except giving more arms and other aid to the Zelensky government.
Another example comes from World War II. In “Mein Kampf” and in almost every speech, Hitler railed against “Judeo-Bolshevism,” called Russians “untermenschen” and planned for “lebensraum” in the East by grabbing the land of the Soviet Union, enslaving its peoples. Yet in 1939, Hitler signed a “non-aggression” pact with Soviet dictator Stalin. It lasted until they had a lovers’ quarrel, Hitler invaded on June 22, 1941, then Stalin, with immense support from the United States and the British Empire, drove Hitler back to Berlin at the cost of 27 million Russians.
Which also explains why Russians hate Neo-Nazis, and didn’t like the Azov Battallion massacring around 14,000 Russians in the Donbas in Eastern Ukraine.
In World War II, my father, three uncles, a great-uncle and a cousin fought in the U.S. military against Hitler and the other Axis powers. So it disturbs me that the U.S. government now is siding with Neo-Nazis.
This all could have been avoided if Biden had worked out a deal with the Russians to keep Ukraine neutral and out of NATO, to give the Donbas autonomy and to cleanse Ukraine of Neo-Nazis. That same result still will be achieved with an inevitable Russian victory — but at the cost of tens of thousands of lives, the disruption of the global economic order and immense suffering everywhere, including in America because of inflation destroying family incomes.