🇺🇦🇨🇦 Is there a civil war that has been going on in Ukraine not just these past weeks, but these past eight years?

In the history of civilization, Politics has more often than not, been a matter reduceable to the question of “whose side are you on?”

Granted it is not an easy affair to discern what most-nearly approaches truth in the fog of “the present.” Hindsight is 20/20 they say, although that is also not entirely true, for the interpretation of history is just another battlefield, albeit in much slower motion.

In a world of increased division, where we are told there is only black or white, the best we mere “civilians” can hope for is to not get hit by the crossfire. However, that is becoming increasingly harder to do.

It is not a matter of holding “opinion” any longer, it is about upholding a “conviction,” not earned with your own personal scrutiny and research, but by your “faith” in such a conviction and the authorities who shape it.

Increasingly, it does not truly matter what the “facts” are, but the question of “whose side are you on?”

If that is what “reality” has been reduced to by those forces controlling the state, then any enemy to those forces controlling that state will be a villain, regardless of their actions, regardless of their ideology; and any ally to those forces controlling that state will be a hero, regardless of their actions, regardless of their ideology.

And thus, in our shaped reality of today, what makes a “Hero” or a “Villain” will be determined by the simple question “whose side are you on?”

Let us dare to discern the “facts” for ourselves. Only then, will we cease being mere cheerleaders for a team; only then, can we qualify ourselves to ask in all honest sincerity, “whose side are we truly on?”

✍️ By Cynthia Chung: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/03/22/fact-checking-the-fact-checkers-why-does-ukraine-seem-to-have-so-many-nazis-nowadays/

#Canada #ChrystiaFreeland #Maidan #Nationalism #Ukraine

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🇺🇦 Since the onset of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine in February this year, there has been an upsurge of interest in Ukrainian history.

And in the midst of a conflict over national sovereignty, there has been an upsurge of interest in simplistic versions of Ukrainian history. But the history here is very complicated.

Ukrainian nationalists have presented a distorted history of Ukraine ✂️

💬 By Katya Sedgwik

#Ukraine #History #Nationalism

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💢 Few people even know the name ‘Gehlen’, yet Reinhart Gehlen and his SS men not only shaped politically the newborn OSS and CIA, but also, to a significant extent, determined post-war American attitudes toward Russia. A zeitgeist that has remained largely intact to this day, Gehlen – ‘man of light and dark’; both Führer loyalist and traitor – long before Hitler finally fired him.

Sometimes it is necessary to look into deep history to identify the roots of contemporary issues.

This Ukrainian identitarian ‘play’ has a crucial part in the story of why sustained peace with Russia is foreclosed 🛑

💬 Read more by Alastair Crooke

#ColdWar #Gehlen #Germany #Nationalism #NATO #Nazism #Ukraine

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🇵🇱 El partido polaco, que obtuvo casi el 7% de los votos hace cuatro años, obtuvo alrededor del 15% en las encuestas en el verano, amenazando las posiciones del gobernante partido conservador nacional Ley y Justicia, y la Coalición Cívica, encabezada por el ex primer ministro Donald Tusk.

💬 via elobservador.com.uy

#elections #nationalism #Poland #politics

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