The Post-Partisan Emporium

A standing ovation for a Nazi exposes unpleasant truths about the war in Ukraine   W estern cheerleaders for the war in Ukraine have sought to deny the complicated relationship between Ukrainian nationalism and   neo-Nazi groups , calling any discussion of a Nazi past or present in Ukraine a “Putin talking point.” But the truth can only be suppressed for so long, and it recently burst forth in what should have been a sleepy session of the Canadian Parliament. In the midst of introducing Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for yet another address to the House of Commons, Speaker Anthony Rota   recognized   98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka as a Ukrainian war hero for fighting the Soviet Union during World War II,   apparently unaware   that Hunka had volunteered for the Waffen-SS Galicia division, a Nazi military unit notorious for horrific war crimes. An entire roomful of MPs, along with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a fist-pumping Zelensky, rose ...

THIS IS NATO!

Unsettled History: The Useful Abuse of the "Holocaust" ALAN SABROSKY   Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. (George Santayana) Santayana’s maxim is probably one of the most widely quoted criticisms by scholars and practitioners alike of public policy – especially foreign policy – when it goes awry. This is especially true when the result is disaster at home or defeat abroad, the latter all too often producing the former. Sometimes leaders and their countries survive, other times one or both are ruined. Few out there even today are utterly devoid of a sense of history or driven lemming-like to court disaster, although I concede ever more these days come depressingly close. All forms of government have their weak points, and autocracies in the past have a decidedly mixed record of accomplishments. But it seems clear at least in the case of the United States, that the wider the franchise, the less competent the leaders, no matter what their ideology or pa...