Mick Hall ☭ No country would sit easy if they had a hostile and powerful foreign military alliance hunkered down near their borders.

But that doesn't absolve those in the Kemlin who marched its military into the Ukraine recklessly, egotistically, and foolishly.

However what was Zelenskyy thinking when he tied his country's apron strings to the USA (and it's Nato allies) when historically their word is not worth a penny-farthing in old money as the Afghan people learnt only recently? 

What he has done is cut the umbilical cord from one satrap dictator and to put it crudely, tied it to another shower of shit. Still we shouldn't be that surprised as he is quite happy to tolerate having Azov fascists embedded within the Ukrainian military, security services and police. 

It's worth remembering if it marched like a fascist, talks like a fascist, barks like a fascist, it's a fascist!

James Meek who should know better, writing in The Observer has clearly got with the MSM programe when he wrote this:

The beauty of the EU, for Ukraine, is the capaciousness of its model for both liberals and nationalists. In some ways, the aims of European-era Ukraine closely resemble those of the Scottish National Party and the Irish republic.

Oh really? So if the SNP were to gain independence they would have a fascist Battalion/Regiment, of well over a thousand plus men and women in their military? As to the Republic of Ireland I'm not going there, in the modern era it's to ridiculous to even imagine.

Meek continues:

For Ukraine’s more conservative nationalists,* it’s Poland and Hungary that offer the more appealing EU models – stridently patriotic, subordinating media, courts and education to national ideals and social conservatism, all while getting subsidies and trading freely within the EU.
 
It wasn't that long ago when Meek's paper was trashing the record of the government's of Poland and Hungary and rightly so, not any more it seems, to use a fake slogan "there're all in this together."
Meek then quotes an unnamed Ukrainian friend:

I am a liberal, defending the independence of Ukraine. Part of Ukrainian society supports conservative values, linking them to security. If we’re really only going to preach universal, classical, liberal values … we promote discord in the country.

This is classic bourgeois arrogance. It reminds me of the man with the black moustache who the German ruling class thought they could tame by bringing him in from the cold. Whilst Ukraine is not like Germany in 1932, however what has not changed is the fascists' overall strategy and the naivety of the bourgeoisie to believe they can coexist with armed fascists within the state apparatus.

* The Ukrainian National Defence and Security Council recently suspended the activities of a number of Ukrainian political parties. The list includes major opposition parties and less known ones that use words like 'progressive', 'left' or 'socialist' in their names. The Ukrainian fascists were not on the list.

⏩ Mick Hall is a veteran Left Wing activist and trade unionist.

Neither Washington Nor Moscow

Mick Hall ☭ No country would sit easy if they had a hostile and powerful foreign military alliance hunkered down near their borders.

But that doesn't absolve those in the Kemlin who marched its military into the Ukraine recklessly, egotistically, and foolishly.

However what was Zelenskyy thinking when he tied his country's apron strings to the USA (and it's Nato allies) when historically their word is not worth a penny-farthing in old money as the Afghan people learnt only recently? 

What he has done is cut the umbilical cord from one satrap dictator and to put it crudely, tied it to another shower of shit. Still we shouldn't be that surprised as he is quite happy to tolerate having Azov fascists embedded within the Ukrainian military, security services and police. 

It's worth remembering if it marched like a fascist, talks like a fascist, barks like a fascist, it's a fascist!

James Meek who should know better, writing in The Observer has clearly got with the MSM programe when he wrote this:

The beauty of the EU, for Ukraine, is the capaciousness of its model for both liberals and nationalists. In some ways, the aims of European-era Ukraine closely resemble those of the Scottish National Party and the Irish republic.

Oh really? So if the SNP were to gain independence they would have a fascist Battalion/Regiment, of well over a thousand plus men and women in their military? As to the Republic of Ireland I'm not going there, in the modern era it's to ridiculous to even imagine.

Meek continues:

For Ukraine’s more conservative nationalists,* it’s Poland and Hungary that offer the more appealing EU models – stridently patriotic, subordinating media, courts and education to national ideals and social conservatism, all while getting subsidies and trading freely within the EU.
 
It wasn't that long ago when Meek's paper was trashing the record of the government's of Poland and Hungary and rightly so, not any more it seems, to use a fake slogan "there're all in this together."
Meek then quotes an unnamed Ukrainian friend:

I am a liberal, defending the independence of Ukraine. Part of Ukrainian society supports conservative values, linking them to security. If we’re really only going to preach universal, classical, liberal values … we promote discord in the country.

This is classic bourgeois arrogance. It reminds me of the man with the black moustache who the German ruling class thought they could tame by bringing him in from the cold. Whilst Ukraine is not like Germany in 1932, however what has not changed is the fascists' overall strategy and the naivety of the bourgeoisie to believe they can coexist with armed fascists within the state apparatus.

* The Ukrainian National Defence and Security Council recently suspended the activities of a number of Ukrainian political parties. The list includes major opposition parties and less known ones that use words like 'progressive', 'left' or 'socialist' in their names. The Ukrainian fascists were not on the list.

⏩ Mick Hall is a veteran Left Wing activist and trade unionist.

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