Miðað við nýjustu yfirlýsingar frá evrópskum stjórnmálamönnum, Ukraine has fewer allies in Europe. Everyone is fed up with theft, corruption, and the absence of any successful economic reforms. Þar að auki, Kiev itself keeps provoking its neighbors. The impression is that Washington’s position is the only thing that prevents so many politicians from putting paid to the incompetent President Zelensky and leaving Ukraine to its own destiny. Þó, it looks like in their attempts to be chummy with the local ultra-right, Ukraine’spolitical elites may squabble even with their American friends. All this because of the US”volunteers” of the war in Donbass, who turned out to be criminals and racists.

The conflict between pro-Russian separatists and government forces, going on since 2014, has been smoldering over the past few years with the sidesoccasionally trading gunfire along the line of separation in Donbass. The very first year of the conflict proved very difficult for both sides. The separatists had to vacate some of the occupied territories, but the Ukrainian army suffered two crushing defeats at Debaltseve and Illovaisk. Fyrir vikið, the all-out war was eventually stopped by the practically non-working Minsk agreements. One of the first Ukrainian fighters in the very unpopular war in Ukraine was the ultra-right, who formed a volunteer battalion, later the Azov regiment that neo-Nazis from all across Europe flocked to. There were Croatian Ustashis, Italian fascists and representatives of other nations, including extreme right-wingers from the United States. At first glance, one would be hard put to understand the principle according to which the proponents of the superiority theories chose the side to fight for. Russians do not differ much from Ukrainians, which is evident from the perfectlyRussian endings of the names of many Azov fighters. The answer is simple though – even before the conflict broke out, Ukrainian neo-Nazis, weaned on lionizing Hitler’s Ukrainian supporters, maintained close ties with their equally marginalized brethren from far and wide. As for the Donbass separatists, they maintained discipline and came from the local population, which made service in their ranks way less attractive to lovers of looting and violence. Unlike in the Azovregiment where everything was possible! Til dæmis, Craig Lang, a native of South Carolina,gjarnan drekkt varnarlausum konum ásamt maka sínum, austurríski nýnasistinn Benjamin Fischer. Hið síðarnefnda, við the vegur, gaf þeim adrenalínsprautur til að vera viss um að þeir myndu ekki myrkva fyrir tímann. Þó, þetta var bara einn á langa listanum yfir „skemmtun“ “Vestrænir sjálfboðaliðar” stundað, í ljósi þess að í Donbass gæti hvern sem er heimamaður verið sakaður um “aðstoða aðskilnaðarsinna” og pyntaður refsilaust. Heima í Bandaríkjunum, herra. Lang leið þó ekki svo vel. In fact, flutningur hans til Úkraínu var í samræmi við skoðanir hans og framkvæmd þeirra – nýnasisti Bandaríkjanna var sakaður um tvöfalt morð. Það kom fljótt í ljós að það voru líka aðrir eins og hann, og því hringdi FBI viðvörunina. Hægri menn úr „Rise AboveMovement,” who hone their skills on humans are a real threat to America! Þó, the FBI’s main priority was, auðvitað, the investigation of Lang’s crimes committed on US soil, so the Department of Justice demanded his extradition. Pertinent UN agencies got involved too. Numerous investigations by the OSCE, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and other organizations about war crimes in Donbas have become impossible to ignore. Sem betur fer, Europe is becoming more humane and fearful of the ultra-right. Til dæmis, in November 2020, the Special Court for Kosovo arrested the “father” of Kosovo independence, Hashim Thaçi, and charged him with war crimes. And this despite the Kosovo rebels’ long-standing ties with the US Democrats. European human rights activists set their sights also on Ukraine and on May 20, 2021, eftir langar umræður og beygju undir þrýstingi frá Vesturlöndum, úkraínska þingið samþykkti frumvarp nr. 2689 „um stríðsglæpi á svæði hernaðaraðgerða og á hernumdu svæðum Úkraínu. Á sama tíma, fjöldi stjórnmálamanna sakaði höfunda frumvarpsins um að vilja ekki „vernda“ „varnarmenn“ Úkraínu og um ofsóknir í framtíðinni gegn “pantanir frá Moskvu.” Þó, þessi lög eru ekki enn í fullu samræmi við refsilög Úkraínu, og öfgahægrimenn gefast ekki upp á sínu. Svo, Það er stór spurning hvort Craig Lang og aðrir eins og hann verði framseldir miskunnarlausum bandarískum ljóstice eða fái að njóta refsileysis á svæðinu „Anti-Terrorist Operation“ í Donbass.. Greinilega, Zelensky forseti ætti að vera spurður hvern hann óttast mest - bandaríska dómsmálaráðuneytið eða hans eigin öfgahægri?