Introduction In the last article, we introduced the idea that the liberal Ukrainian elite was opposed to the Minsk agreements on Eurocentric grounds. They feared that implementation of Minsk would end Ukraine’s chances of joining the EU and NATO. This article will explore the logic of this argument.
This is very enlightening. Thank you. In the future, could you explain what "UP" refers to? Also, I hope you'll write one article about, very concretely, who makes up the Ukraine ruling class, which you refer to in this article. A discussion of the structure and membership of the Ukrainian ruling class would give us insight into why this class is so ferociously racist, Russophobic, and against neutrality and exclusively for integration into the EU. Is this a matter of Ukrainian big business leaders and financiers showing class solidarity with the neoliberal EU leadership? Or are the US, UK, etc., deep states putting pressure on the Ukraine ruling class to become the compliant comprador leaders of the post-2014 fake independent state of Ukraine, which is more and more becoming a vassal state of the US that has lost its sovereignty?
My impression after reading this essay is that neo-OUN (neo-Banderite) Ukrainians and Ukrainian liberals both look at Russian-speaking Ukrainians, especially the working-class people of the Donbass, the way many American white people in the post-Civil War south looked at African Americans. The many laws forbidding the expression of Russian, Hungarian, and Roma language and culture are similar to the terrible Jim Crow laws that were passed in the south that turned African Americans into second- or third-class citizens. Why is this not being condemned by the UN? The German Nazis are said to have studied the Jim Crow laws, so I wonder whether the Jim Crow laws are still influential in some circles in Ukraine.
Sorry for the lack of explanations, I added a glossary at the start now for terms; As the other commenter said, UP = Ukrainska Pravda, Ukraine's leading liberal newspaper. This series of articles bases its research on think pieces published in that paper.
I had your same thoughts regrading post Civil War south as well as the land grab from the many Native American tribes and their resettlement in various reservations
Thank you for pointing this out. I agree completely. When people cite Zelensky's Jewishness as a refutation of fascist ethnic cleansing, one has to point out that in Ukraine the Untermenschen are the Russians.
This is very enlightening. Thank you. In the future, could you explain what "UP" refers to? Also, I hope you'll write one article about, very concretely, who makes up the Ukraine ruling class, which you refer to in this article. A discussion of the structure and membership of the Ukrainian ruling class would give us insight into why this class is so ferociously racist, Russophobic, and against neutrality and exclusively for integration into the EU. Is this a matter of Ukrainian big business leaders and financiers showing class solidarity with the neoliberal EU leadership? Or are the US, UK, etc., deep states putting pressure on the Ukraine ruling class to become the compliant comprador leaders of the post-2014 fake independent state of Ukraine, which is more and more becoming a vassal state of the US that has lost its sovereignty?
My impression after reading this essay is that neo-OUN (neo-Banderite) Ukrainians and Ukrainian liberals both look at Russian-speaking Ukrainians, especially the working-class people of the Donbass, the way many American white people in the post-Civil War south looked at African Americans. The many laws forbidding the expression of Russian, Hungarian, and Roma language and culture are similar to the terrible Jim Crow laws that were passed in the south that turned African Americans into second- or third-class citizens. Why is this not being condemned by the UN? The German Nazis are said to have studied the Jim Crow laws, so I wonder whether the Jim Crow laws are still influential in some circles in Ukraine.
Sorry for the lack of explanations, I added a glossary at the start now for terms; As the other commenter said, UP = Ukrainska Pravda, Ukraine's leading liberal newspaper. This series of articles bases its research on think pieces published in that paper.
UP = Ukrainian Pravda, a leading newspaper, I believe.
I had your same thoughts regrading post Civil War south as well as the land grab from the many Native American tribes and their resettlement in various reservations
Thank you for pointing this out. I agree completely. When people cite Zelensky's Jewishness as a refutation of fascist ethnic cleansing, one has to point out that in Ukraine the Untermenschen are the Russians.
Excellent stuff that explains so much. It's the context and nuance missing from the western propaganda narrative.
I am glad you enjoy it! I am very excited to release the next installments.