Posted on 06/03/2023 1:44:42 PM PDT by delta7
I asked the Washington hosts of Andriy Parubiy, the speaker of Ukraine’s parliament and founder of two neo-Nazi parties, why they were legitimizing an open fascist at the heart of the extremism plaguing his country.
By Max Blumenthal
While racist violence raged through Ukraine, punctuated by a wave of attacks on Roma encampments by the state-funded C14 neo-Nazi militia, Congress played host to an actual Ukrainian fascist. He was Andriy Parubiy, and besides being the proud founder of two Nazi-like parties — the Social-National Party and the Patriot of Ukraine — he was the speaker of Ukraine’s parliament.
During a meeting hosted by the American Foreign Policy Society inside the Senate, I seized the chance to ask Parubiy’s hosts why they were welcoming a figure who was so central to the extremism overtaking Ukrainian society. I also put the question to Michael Carpenter, a former Pentagon official who helped deepen the US relationship with post-coup Ukraine during the Obama administration.
The responses I received reflected a semi-official policy of denying the very existence of Ukraine’s far-right plague in order to turn the heat up on Moscow.
The Ukrainian lawmaker appeared on a panel alongside fellow speakers of Eastern European parliaments eager to join the US-NATO crusade against Russia in exchange for handsome aid packages. At the top of the agenda was stopping the Nord Stream 2 pipeline between Russia and Germany, a project viewed in Washington as an existential threat to US economic leverage over Europe.
Earlier in the day, Parubiy held private discussions with the Republican Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan and enjoyed what Under Secretary of State for Arms Control Andrea Thomson described as an “excellent meeting” with a “proactive” leader.
Parubiy’s first meeting with Ryan, which Ben Norton covered for the Grayzone last June, was also treated as business as usual, without a single protest or critical word from the Beltway press.
Watch my exchange in the video report below, which I co-produced with Thomas Hedges.
Be sure to watch the imbedded video.
Congress welcomes a kindred spirit.
For Democrats, it’s all about getting paid. Commie, Fascist, whatever? Do they play the game, that’s the only question.
But I thought Fascism is now GOOD, at least when the Fascists are beating up on Russia?
Hell, Fascists beating up on Russia and the people in this country taking the side of the Fascists - glad they weren’t in power during WW2.
Come to think of it, who would have guessed that the people who spent the past 50 years calling us Conservatives Fascists, would be the ones supporting REAL FASCISTS.
Isn’t Max the feral spawn of Sid Blumenthal?
I recall seeing video of him being really obnoxious and sparring with Andrew Breitbart.
This is rubbish.
Probably.
Hey, if we’re gonna post & endorse guys like *Max Blumenthal*, why not Chomsky and Zinn? Sanders? Or let’s go across the pond and resurrect the ghost of Eric Hobsbawm?
If you’re gonna go Left, go all the way.
This is rubbish.
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Oh, really? Our US Congress was aware of the Ukie Nazis back in 2018. Today, the US is spending billions on our pet Nazis.
“Congress bans arms to Ukraine militia linked to neo-Nazis”…. A little-noticed provision in the 2,232-page government spending bill passed last week bans U.S. arms from going to a controversial ultranationalist militia in Ukraine that has openly accepted neo-Nazis into its ranks…..”
Any comments?
Yawn. If you support Trump your are a “white supramacist”. If you oppose Putin and Russian supremacism you are “Nazi”. You play such juvenile and brain dead games.
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