The Conyers-Soho Amendment
Last week Congressmen John Conyers and Soho’s stance against
providing weapons to Ukrainian nazi battalions should have been lauded
by Americans because they stood up for our American values. The
Ukrainian reaction to the amendment they attached on the support bill
denying money to neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine provides the most telling
look into Ukrainian nationalist politics the west has seen so far.
Kiev is “cleaning up” a few of the neo-nazi punisher groups many
journalists including myself have been writing about over the 1 ½ years.
This small admission that the torture, rape, sodomy, and murder of
innocent civilians is geared to show their “democratic values.” In true
Ukrainian nationalist fashion, they still give medals to the most
egregious perpetrators and make examples that give photo ops for the
press service.
The truth is that the crimes have been lauded across the spectrum of
the Ukrainian government and as over the top as some of the stories
coming out of Donbas seemed; they only scratch the surface. Ukrainian nationalism demands that its followers act without thinking, and heroism is doing the unthinkable and unspeakable.
A real Ukrainian hero doesn’t need to sacrifice himself. A true hero
according to this ideology will sacrifice everybody or anybody around
them first (You really can’t make this stuff up!).
“I am grateful that the House of Representatives unanimously passed my amendments last night to ensure that our military does not train members of the repulsive neo-Nazi Azov Battalion…
Responding to this Andrei Bilitsky, Ukrainian Senate MP and founder of Azov Battalion stated that “American’s have no right to judge Ukrainian law enforcing structures.”
He said this despite the fact that Ukraine is surviving on American
handouts. Instead of building the