A Friend Asked Me a Question Yesterday

A friend of mine posed a question to me yesterday. They asked: “I know you’re philosophically against war and all, but aren’t you at least rooting for Ukraine to win against Russia?” The person asked nicely, with no hint of snark in their tone. I answered, “The first time I was asked that question I got very offended and didn’t even bother to answer. Since then I’ve been able to formulate my thoughts though and I can answer the question precisely: Imagine that you were informed that I had signed on for a real fighting match with a world class MMA fighter and that the match was just about to begin. What would be your response? Would you grab some popcorn and start ‘rooting’ for me? Or would you do everything you possibly could to stop the fight, knowing that my chances of making it out of that ring alive and without serious brain damage would be extremely minimal? I would hope you would choose the latter.”

The Formidable Neo-Nazi Presence in the Current Ukrainian Military and its effect on Government Policy as the War Drags On

Firstly, Ukraine has absolutely no chance of winning the war against Russia. A war that actually started in 2014 and that has been going on ever since. I’ve written a dozen articles about this and the situation has gotten worse with each passing month for at least 2 years now. All of the articles I’ve written are available under my name above. Secondly, Ukraine’s current government is suiciding what’s left of its draftable population. Well over a million Ukrainian soldiers have died and another million will die in the next year if the war isn’t somehow stopped.(1) Whatever the Western “mainstream” news media has told you about the casualty counts for both sides, flip it around and you’ll be about 75% closer to the truth than what they’re saying.

As the current 40 month phase in the 11 year long war in Ukraine has dragged on, a significant portion of the Ukrainian military has become increasingly dominated by a faction of ultra-right wing fascists known as the Azov Battalion. One of this neo-Nazi group’s main mechanisms of building their power base between 2014 and 2022 was to create contacts, to build bridges and to bring in recruits from white supremacist groups all around the world. There were hundreds of articles and dozens of documentaries made by mainstream news sources (NBC, TIME Magazine, BBC, etc.) about this fascist military cult in the mid to late 2010s, which almost all mysteriously stopped being produced around late 2019. (1A) Interestingly, it was in late 2019 that massive amounts of US/NATO weapons began flowing into Ukraine. Could it have been this that caused the mainstream Western media reports about the growing Azov Nazi Battalion to stop? Could the reports also have been stopped because it was in 2019 that Ukrainian TV actor Volodymyr Zelensky, the then new US chosen neocon puppet, was elected president on a “peace making” platform? Of course it could have. As a side note, many of the mainstream media made documentaries mentioned above are still watchable on youtube.(1B)

This neo-Nazi faction within the Ukrainian military has been abducting young men, many of them teenagers, off of the streets in Ukrainian cities and throwing them into trucks to bring them to the front lines for almost 2 years now. These kidnappings have increased after the mass desertion of close to 150,000 Ukrainian soldiers over the course of the last 3 years. There have also been cases of older men who’ve been abducted, some of whom were in their 40s and 50s.(2),(3),(4),(5) These abducted men get 2 to 4 weeks of military training, then they’re pushed onto the battlefield to fight and die. Under no conditions will this Azov faction in Ukraine allow anything resembling capitulation with Russia, even if it ends up meaning the death of their country’s entire draftable population. Here’s one of 100s of video clip examples of this phenomenon that Western media doesn’t report about: 1) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7Q3dvUMO1EE 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXhC8WREVKM&t=85s I included another one in the citations section of this article.

It’s unknown exactly how much sway this faction has over Volodymyr Zelensky’s already limited decision making process at this point, although many feel their influence is quite significant.(5A) EVERYONE in the upper tiers of European government (as well as the US govt) is well aware of this problem. It’s also common knowledge in Washington that Ukraine has absolutely no chance of victory. Yet these politicians continue to push for the war to continue in order to please their donors and to prolong what’s left of their political careers. All of these politicians’ eggs have been thrown into “Project Ukraine” over the course of the past 3-plus years (at least). When the war ends, so will their careers.

3 Important Notes:

1- If you find what I’ve written above hard to believe, being that I report from outside the “mainstream” Western news media’s narrative, then have a look at this report by The Guardian that was released in 2018: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2017/sep/04/i-want-to-bring-up-a-warrior-ukraines-far-right-childrens-camp-video  And here’s another report from outside the Western mainstream news bubble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0txqZUjAp3s Here’s one more from 2018, for those who prefer VICE to the so-called virtue of TIME Magazine, who also made documentaries about this subject that are on youtube.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMMXuKB0BoY&t=8s 

2- This subject, the significant Neo-Nazi presence in the Ukrainian military, is one that I’ve avoided writing about for 3 years now because I realize how perplexing it is to contemplate in contrast with how the Western media has portrayed the war up until this point. I myself doubted it when I first heard about it. It felt too far-out sounding to be plausible. When I investigated it though, sadly, it turned out to be all too true. 

I also previously never felt it was essential to mention it. I felt that all of the other information I was providing was enough to clearly get the picture across without talking about Azov. The horror show in Ukraine is at a point now though where I could no longer be silent about this factor. 

3- Although it might seem paradoxical to a mind that’s been indoctrinated in the Manichean (black and white/this or that/good versus evil) Western mindset of the 21st century, I do not, nor have I ever been in favor of the violence Russia has undertaken in Ukraine. I’ve made this clear in at least 4 of the articles I’ve written about the war and I feel no further need to go more deeply into the subject here, at this time.

If You Really Want to Stand With the People of Ukraine

I’ve been studying this conflict long enough to say that I can promise you that everything I’ve said here is true. Feel free to hold me to this promise. A large majority of Ukraine’s population now wants the war to end via a diplomatic solution, not by mass suicide of their population.(6) And the longer the war goes on, the more land they will lose. I’ve done my best for 3 years to alert people about this inevitability through my articles and posts. I don’t know what more I can do. If you (really) want to stand with the people of Ukraine, at this point, you have to stand for an end to this US/NATO proxy war and support a diplomatic solution. There’s no other option at this point. Otherwise hundreds of thousands more will die that do not have to die.

A Bridge To Sell You 

The war in Ukraine is, obviously, a US proxy war. The US doesn’t throw 250 Billion dollars into conflicts for “humanitarian purposes”. If you believe they do then I’ve got a bridge to sell you on Long island. This proxy war was intentionally generated by the US over a long period of time and made to look like it popped up out of nowhere by the corporate military industrial (bankers) complex-owned Western news media.(7) Billions of US tax dollars were spent to make the proxy war in Ukraine happen and 100s of Billions have been spent to keep it going, as you certainly know by now. To add irony to insult, believe it or not, Russia did not want this war to happen. I realize that to a thoroughly convinced, heavily propagandized mind, it might seem insane to say that Russia didn’t want this war and that they actually did all they could for 2 decades to prevent it from coming to pass. But this is the truth of the matter, which I’ve discussed in several of my articles at Pressenza: https://www.pressenza.com/2024/08/the-us-calculated-sacrifice-of-the-ukrainian-population/ (8),(9)

We were lied to, yet again, by our “mainstream” news media and our bipartisanly led neocon government. Seems to happen quite a lot when it comes to US wars and proxy wars in the 21st century, no? It’s like a skipping record at this point, don’t you think/feel?

Lastly, it’s very important to see how the war in Ukraine and the now burgeoning war between Iran and Israel are linked, strategically, economically, etc.. In a future article I’ll attempt to show how these wars are connected and how this became the case.

CITATIONS:

1-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpc8mBCzyPc

1A-https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2017/sep/04/i-want-to-bring-up-a-warrior-ukraines-far-right-childrens-camp-video

1B-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meWM4lChqy4

1C-https://www.pressenza.com/2024/08/the-us-calculated-sacrifice-of-the-ukrainian-population/

2-https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-10-2025-000972_EN.html

3-https://consortiumnews.com/2025/04/20/on-neo-nazi-influence-in-ukraine/

4-https://thedefensepost.com/2024/12/02/ukrainian-army-soldiers-deserted/

5-https://www.threads.com/@agencia_vn_/post/DH1-46bslGT/video-impactante-vea-como-ocho-militares-ucranianos-golpean-a-un-hombre-y-lo-meten-en-?hl=en

5A-https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/06/29/flzu-j29.html

6-https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/11/20/most-ukrainians-now-want-an-end-to-the-war

7-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYi5S81fKxI&t=3s

8-https://www.pressenza.com/2024/08/the-us-calculated-sacrifice-of-the-ukrainian-population/

9-https://www.pressenza.com/2023/06/summer-of-suicide-2023/