Ukraine's problem is not Nazis but Russians. Ukraine's Nazis hate Russians for the same reason that Germany's Nazis hated Jews, and Zionist Jews hate Arabs: they hate the presence in their society of people of alien race, religion and culture.
And for Ukrainians the problem with Russians, not only their presence but also their frequent domination, has existed intermittently for over a thousand years. The first Russians in what is now the Ukraine were Vikings. These were people from Finland and other places to the North, who traversed Eastern Europe in light wooden boats that they portaged from river to river. In this, way Russians crossed the Eurasian continent from the Baltic to the Black sea, the final leg of their journey via the Dniepr River. It was on the banks of the Dniepr that they established, at a place called Kiev, the capital of the Russian state.
From the mouth of the Dniepr, the early Russian adventurers sailed the Black Sea to the Dardanelles, bringing honey, wax, fur and slaves from the forests of the North to exchange for cloth, porcelain, ironware, gold and silver in the markets of the Roman capital of Constantinople.
Over the course of time, the Ukrainian portion of the Russian domain was overrun by other groups including the Kazars, who converted to Judaism (hence the blonde blue-eyed Jews of the Ukraine), and the Tatars, a branch of Gengis Kahn's Golden Horde. But the Russians returned, first to the territory East of the Dniepr, which they acquired at the expense of the Polish-Lithuanian Empire in 1667. Subsequently Russia gained control of territory to the West of Dniepr through an agreement with the Cossacks. Then, in 1783, they conquered Crimea whence Tatars had made a practice of invading Southern Russia to kidnap tens of thousands of peasants each year to sell in the slave market at Constantinople.
Thus, prior to the Russian Revolution, the Russian Tsar ruled the three Russias: Great Russia, which was more or less coextensive with Russia today, including Crimea, White Russia, now an independent Belarus, and Little Russia, aka the Ukraine.
Following the Russian Revolution, the Ukraine became independent, experienced a civil war, after which it was conquered by the Soviet Union, becoming independent once again following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In light of that history, the ambivalence of feeling of Russians and Ukrainians for one another is understandable. However, since the break-up of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainians foolishly antagonized Russia and Ukraine's ethnic Russian population by threatening a genocide of ethnic Russians comprising a majority of the population of the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine: an antagonism leading to the formation of the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Separation, however, was not acceptable to the Ukrainian nationalists who wish to possess an Eastern Ukraine minus ethnic Russians. Thus, as former Ukrainian Prime Minister Julia Tymoshenko avowed, the Donbas Russians, or cockroaches as the Ukrainian Nazis contend, should be nuked, or as other more humane Kievites contend, expelled from the territory of the Ukraine. Pending any other solution, the Ukrainians have shelled and sniped at the people of Donetsk and Luhansk, killing, so it is reported, around 15,000 of them, including hundreds of children.
Most recently, according to US Colonel Douglas McGregor, Ukraine assembled in Eastern Ukraine an army of 60,000, including the notorious Nazi Azov Battalion, with the apparent intention of wiping out the breakaway republics. This action compelled a response from Moscow, which culminated in the current invasion.
How the conflict will be resolved remains to be seen, but the obvious, humane solution would be a region by region referendum to determine how the people in each part of the Ukraine wish to be governed. Do they want inclusion within the Ukrainian state -- with its avowed intention to eliminate Russian culture and the use of the Russian language for all official purposes including education; independence as separate states; or union with one of the states adjacent to the Ukraine, these being Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Belarus, and Russia.
A referendum in Crimea in 2014 which indicated overwhelming popular support for union with Russia, was followed by an essentially peaceful Russian annexation. However, no such decent solution to ethnic division in the remaining Russian-dominated regions of the Ukraine is acceptable to the Ukrainian leadership in Kiev. Furthermore, any such democratic solution, which would almost certainly result in further territory being annexed by Russia, would certainly be condemned by the self-declared global hegemon, the United States of Aggression and the leaders of America's NATO side kicks, including Bojo the Concuspicient, Trudeau the Maple Leaf Fuhrer, plus the zero Covid crackpots of Australasia.
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