Not P.....but Seymour Hersh admitting his self-blocked blindness....

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Martin Dietze <pynchon at the-little-red-haired-girl.org> schrieb am Freitag, 2. Januar 2026 um 22:01:

> I had sincerely hoped that you’d come to your senses about this “Ukraine = fascist” thing, in particular after having seen what has been happening since February 2022.

I have never said anything that amounted to "Ukraine = Nazi". I am well aware that the Nazis, to the credit of the Ukrainian people, failed to clear the five percent hurdle in the 2019 elections. Please, don't put words in my mouth or notions in my head.

> Unfortunately you don’t seem to have to, and as before you are still sticking to anecdotes. These may demonstrate cases of which a good part surely deserves criticism, but it cannot prove what you really want to show.

"Anecdotes"? "Regrettable"? "Surely deserves criticism"? Yes, Nazis surely "deserve criticism" in my view. 

What is it that I "really want to show"?

> While you’ll find the far-right in every country, in Russia you have a de facto fascist state.

Every country has an army corps commanded by a Nazi, every country has a Nazi as the Head of the Institute of National Memory, every country celebrates the birthday of a Nazi collaborator and mass murderer with the "Blut und Boden" flag of the UPA, every country allows their service members to use the patches of the SS-Sondereinheit "Dirlewanger". Is that what you are saying?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandr_Alfiorov

https://x.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/2007321756860854419

https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/crossed-grenades

-- The association of some Ukrainian combat units with the Nazi SS – in terms of their insignia, and in some cases, behavior – is by now well-documented. Even so, David Park, a retired US Army major, was dumbfounded to see the crossed grenade patch of the most notorious of all SS combat units adorning a Ukrainian sleeve. 

“For a unit to openly wear the Dirlewanger patch, knowing what it stands for, shows the level of Nazi inculcation and acculturation that has occurred in the Ukrainian Army up and down its chain of command,” said Park."

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A cult has arisen around the late Ukrainian wartime nationalist, anti-semite and Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera. And some paramilitary and military units have adopted far-right ideologies, as well as SS and other Nazi insignia. --

https://asiatimes.com/2022/12/wwiis-nazi-ghosts-haunt-and-torment-ukraine/

(Please note that this article also, and with good reason, criticizes the Wagner Group.)

Of course, we are not pouring billions and billions and billions of dollars and euros into Russia in order to defend "freedom and democracy", risking WW III in the process, we are pouring them into Ukraine.  

> In contrast, Ukraine is a democratic country with a parliament in which extremist groups from the right (or the left) have not played any significant role for many years. Your own (and my) country is much worse in this respect.

We do not have an extremist left-wing party in the German Bundestag. And while I have no sympathies for the AfD, comparing Weidel and Chrupalla to the likes of Biletsky and Yarosh is ridiculous.

It is perfectly possible to oppose both Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the resurgence of Banderism at the same time.

For general reference, I recommend:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/ukraine-us-war-russia-john-pilger

https://www.compactmag.com/article/how-decades-of-folly-led-to-war-in-ukraine/