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 ...

DIANA JOHNSTONE: The Specter of Germany Is Rising September 12, 2022 To meet the imaginary Russian threat to Western Europe, Germany will lead an expanded, militarized EU. Olaf Scholz, federal chancellor of Germany, meets Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, in Kiev, Feb. 14, 2022.  (President of Ukraine) By  Diana Johnstone in Paris  Special to Consortium News T he European Union is girding for a long war against Russia that appears clearly contrary to European economic interests and social stability. A war that is apparently irrational – as many are – has deep emotional roots and claims ideological justification. Such wars are hard to end because they extend outside the range of rationality. For decades after the Soviet Union entered Berlin and decisively defeated the Third Reich, Soviet leaders worried about the threat of “German revanchism.” Since World War II could be seen as German revenge for being deprived of victory in World War I, couldn’t aggressive Germa...