Fourth, there is the neo-Nazi element in Ukraine. This movement has gained momentum since 2014, a Reuters estimate shows that in 2020 out of 220,000 fighters in the Ukrainian army, 40% came from paramilitary groups. Probably in order not to draw attention to themselves, the neo-Nazis almost gave up being politically represented (they came from the far-right party Svoboda), but their force (of coercion, even) practically defines Kiev’s actions. The American-Ukrainian writer Lev Golinkin tells about the neo-Nazi battalions and the influence they have on the politics of Kiev, about the threats that Zelensky received from them over time, especially at the beginning of his career as president – not in series, but for real. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PrpPbW3XMI, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KBKPtqdAIM)
Let me summarize what I think about this conflict after looking at all these facts listed above, most of which you will not hear anything about on corporate television. This conflict was started in an extremely cynical and self-interested way by the US, which takes advantage of the fact that it has found in Ukraine some fanatical elements of a fascist-type ideology, able to provoke and continue a war that will make very problematic the very existence of the Ukrainian state and Ukraine as a country.
I don’t care about Russia, on the contrary, I got my Western-style education through the interface called English, which I know very well, I studied it and I have a degree in it. I have been to America and I want to go again, I like the people there, and my partner is American-Romanian. So I stick with the US, but unfortunately as I have learned in recent years, American politicians are not the good guys. Not even in this conflict, which in my opinion has no good guys.
I end with a quote from Henry Kissinger: “To be the enemy of the US is dangerous, to be the friend of the US is fatal.”