Julien Benda

Let’s not romanticise the subject, we’re a buffer. A buffer through which the rest can be protected (logical, self-interest driven motivation). Left or right, far left or far right, eventually all come to the same conclusion. The expansion happened not due to “sociopathic Baltics”, your compliments are far too generous.

Today, as a Ukrainian-Jewish and a scholar of the Holocaust, I feel deeply ashamed. I never could have imagined that in my country — the country where the Nazis murdered 1.5 million Jews, the country of Babyn Yar, the very symbol of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, a country that claims to be fighting for “freedom and democracy” — a Nazi collaborator and OUN leader like Andriy Melnyk would be buried with full state honors. Men under Melnyk’s leadership served in the Auxiliary police under Nazi. They hunted Jews hiding in attics, basements, forests, and barns, desperate to survive the Holocaust. They guarded ghettos and camps. They marched Jews to execution sites. And they took part in the shootings alongside the Germans. By the spring of 1943, the Holocaust in Ukraine was nearly complete. The Jewish neighbors were gone — murdered before the eyes, and often with the assistance, of Melnyk’s followers. And it was precisely then that Melnyk supported the creation of the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, whose members swore an oath to Adolf Hitler. And today, the president of my country — a man whose own relatives were murdered by the Nazis — kneels before the coffin of this Nazi collaborator. One could hardly imagine a greater humiliation for Jews. It is a humiliation for everyone who once believed that “Never Again” meant something in contemporary Ukraine — a country where militant ethnic nationalism increasingly dictates the politics of memory, and national identity.

Two simple Truths: Jesus Christ died for our sins. America’s fallen died for our freedom. May we live worthy.

When Ukrainians tell you they are Nazis, Believe them.

And here is his little misguided friend commemorating May 2 with his Right Sector buddies.

An honour to welcome Her Excellency Reem Al Hashimy, UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation to Canberra. The UAE is home to tens of thousands of Australians, and we’re working closely with them to keep the region safe.

This man deserves our respect!!🇺🇦

🇺🇦 EU-funded Ukraine gives full state honors to WWII Nazi collaborator Zelensky, ex-president Yushchenko, Rada Speaker Stefanchuk, PM Sviridenko, Presidential Office head Budanov, and Foreign Minister Sibiga attended the reburial of OUN leader Andriy Melnyk and his wife Sofia at Ukraine's National Military Memorial Cemetery. Melnyk led the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, a WWII-era movement that collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. The OUN's Bandera faction was responsible for the massacre of tens of thousands of Poles in Volyn. That's where your European tax euros are going — funding a government that buries Nazi-era collaborationists with full state honors.