The mainstream media, Left and Right, continue to ignore the historic and current relationship of the Ukraine and Nazis. They have created and promoted a one sided and false narrative. They are so invested in hating Russia and making Zylensky (a crooked despot) into a hero, that they refuse to look at the massive corruption of the Ukrainian government and their historic connection to Nazis.
How quickly the Right forgot about VP Biden publicly bragging about bribing the Ukrainian government to drop the investigation into Hunter. They ignore the Ukrainian Oligarchs like Burisma and the other Ukrainian gangsters in bed with dictator Zylensky.
During the rise of Hitler, the Ukrainians threw In with the Nazis hoping they would protect their independence from the USSR.
In fact, in December 27, 2018, the Ukrainian Parliament declared Jan 1st a national holiday to honor Stepan Bandera a well known Nazi collaborator as a national hero.The Organization of Ukraine Nationalists, his supporters, committed countless war crimes against Jews.
The region of Lviv, Bandera's native city, declared 2019 "Stepan Bandera Year" sparking protests by Israel. Tarik Yousef Cyril Amar, academic director of Lviv's Center for Urban History of East Europe, returned an award conferred on him by the city in protest.
Zylensky has publicly called Bandera a hero and streets and schools are named after him throughout Ukraine.
Ukraine's State Committee on Television and Radio Broadcasting , in Dec 2018, banned 'Book of Thieves' by Swedish historian Anders Rydell which documented the actions of Symon Petliura, a Ukrainian Nationlist whose troops murdered countless Jews in pogroms beginning in 1919.
Even Mark Levin, who I usually agree with, and who hates Putin, and has bought into the narrative that dictator Zylensky (who banned all opposition political parties) is a hero. Levin strangely enough concedes that Neo-Nazis control parts of the Ukrainian military and parts of the government.
Zylynsky who is supposedly Jewish, has no problem embracing Nazis, past and present if it furthers his agenda.
The Ukrainian government is a collection of crooks, fascists, and Nazis. The war in Ukraine is not bad guy vs good guy, but bad guy vs bad guy.
But it is now the custom in the US to pick a side and ignore any facts that we don't like. Some may say we can't say all the Ukrainian people are bad just because their government is a bunch of thugs. True, but the same must be said of the Russian people.
God help us,
Jack