Politicians and media supporters of Ukraine have repeatedly dismissed reports of Ukrainian troops wearing Nazi insignia and monuments to Nazi collaborator Stefan Bandera as Russian propaganda. Now the facade is beginning to crack. Even the New York Times admits that far-right Nazis are commonplace in the Ukrainian military, which is a problem because it appears to confirm Russia’s “narrative.” The thing about narratives is, sometimes they’re true.
Ukraine’s Narrative Is Beginning to Crack
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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Since the end of WWII, it has been myriad execrable institutions, lead by the likes of the NYT, that have conferred upon various “Jewish” leaders, and the Jewish state of Israel, “reparations” for the horror of the WWII holocaust … consisting of the right, without criticism from any quarter allowed, to repeat such atrocities upon perceived threatening ethnic groups.
In the case of the state of Israel, it is waged against the “other” Semites,*** i.e. the Palestinians. In Ukraine, since the 2014 coup, it has been waged in collaboration with real “professionals” (ideological and biological descendants of the original NAZIs) against Russians.
Note: some 25-30 million persons, 15% of the population, of the then USSR/Russia, died defeating NAZI-ism in WWII … only to have the West claim the victory and virtually immediately begin a campaign to finish the job Hitler started but failed to successfully conclude.
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*** those who did NOT … take a millenium-long hiatus from their homeland only for their successors to have the nerve to decree the right to return to violently expel the successors of those who had remained.
One of the most pernicious aspects of racism and the other assorted -isms is that those who are members of those groups are continuously confronted with “overreactionitis.” If you’re black or gay or fat or whatever, thanks to the current batch of crazies running social media and dictating the totality of what is correct and what is unforgivable, you are almost forced to react, not with a “Hmm. Did I just screw up royally” but with a “This was racism, homophobia, fatphobia, etc.” You are conditioned to overreact to every little thing. “Microaggressions”? My whole life is a series of “microaggressions.” Shall we play the Four Yorkshiremen sketch about it?
All the various forms of discrimination are doing fine and dandy without normal social intercourse being brought into the fold. “Can you imagine? Right to my face, he asked if I wanted my coffee black. How racist can you be? I taught him. Threw that cup of coffee right in his face. And of course, of course, I’m the one who gets arrested for inflicting second-degree burns on the little so-and-so. How was I to know he was blind?”
Then, to cycle up the perversity of this methodology, the cases where, clearly it IS a case of someone screwing up because THEY are the screw up (i.e., the shop teacher who “had to” wear size Z prosthetic breasts) are defended fanatically as heroes being discriminated against when it’s clearly a case of someone pushing the envelope as a sign of some sort of behavioral issue. Sometimes, bald people who look male but identify as female and who wear lipstick and dresses and steal luggage from airports aren’t heroes, they’re just people who steal luggage from airports. They don’t deserve a parade.
Thanks for bringing this up. Good to see that you’re still up for bringing up unpopular views.