Nazis and Russia Redux

"Everybody thinks they're gonna get a chance to punch some Nazi in the face at Normandy, but those days are over. They're long gone."
--Lt Chris Burnett (Behind Enemy Lines)

Interesting discussion of the brand of Nazism endemic to Ukraine. WWI divided many eastern European countries into small, non-viable entities. Western Ukraine became an imperial intersection for intolerant ideologies. 

The environment fostered the development of strong Ukraine nationalist groups that were further shaped by Nazi Germany during WWII. The Nazis were able to manipulate these groups toward Russian hate, thus creating a destabilizing force in the Ukrainian USSR during the war.

This anti-Russian mindset has persisted, making these groups attractive to Western interventionists interested in influencing politics in the region. The West has been manipulating Ukraine nationalist groups for some time to instigate regime change as well as violence against Russian-speaking citizens in eastern Ukraine. Subversive activity has picked up pace over the past several years, highlighted by the Maidan protests and government overthrow of 2014, and the civil war in eastern Ukraine since then.

What is important to note is that it has been the West, and the United States in particular, that has nurtured neo-Nazi factions of Ukraine.

The author notes that Western support of Nazi groups is not new. Alongside England, the United States government supported Hitler in the 1930s for balance of power reasons. Anglo America lent Hitler billions to build up Germany as a bulwark against Russia. 

History has since been rewritten to temper the enthusiasm that the Anglos held for Nazi Germany as a resource on the geopolitical chessboard.

So here we go again. The West is once more funding Nazi-groups, this time in Ukraine, for similar purposes of combating Russia. 

History is rhyming.