Ukraine’s military has a real Nazi problem | Nazi-era specter haunts Kyiv: Poland and Israel turning against Zelensky

By Marta Havryshko, Responsible Statecraft, 6/2/26

When Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he claimed one of his goals was the country’s “denazification.” The Kremlin still uses this narrative as a cornerstone of its war propaganda.

Ukraine’s military has a real Nazi problem | Nazi-era specter haunts Kyiv: Poland and Israel turning against Zelensky

The UK’s New Multinational Naval Initiative Aims To Contain Russia In The Arctic & Baltic

The risk of a hot NATO-Russian war breaking out at sea as opposed to NATO’s Eastern Flank in Central & Eastern Europe is growing.

General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, head of the British Royal Navy, announced that his counterparts from the 10-nation Joint Expeditionary Taskforce comprised of the UK, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Netherlands agreed to create “a family of allied fleets”. Officially known as the “Northern Navies Initiative” (NNI), it’s explicitly aimed at containing Russia in the Arctic and Baltic. This represents the evolution of the UK’s Arctic-Baltic policy that was elaborated on last summer here.

The UK’s New Multinational Naval Initiative Aims To Contain Russia In The Arctic & Baltic

[1997] The fourth world war has begun

The fourth world war has begun

All the cultures which nations have forged – the noble past of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, the brilliance of European civilisation, the cultured history of the Asian nations and the ancestral wealth of Africa and Oceania – all these are under attack from the American way of life. Neoliberalism thus imposes the destruction of nations and of groups of nations in order to fuse them into one single model. The war which neoliberalism is conducting against humanity is thus a planetary war, and is the worst and most cruel ever seen.

“Justice, freedom and democracy” for some

“We would like to contribute to unblocking the Strait of Hormuz; however, the United States has not yet made such a request,” Zelensky insisted this week, a further reference to Ukraine’s unsurpassed military capabilities, which he claimed would achieve what neither the United States nor NATO had been able to accomplish militarily. Reopening the strait, which had been wide open until Donald Trump opted for war, clearly required negotiation, and only Zelensky insisted on a military approach to achieve what was ultimately accomplished through dialogue. In its plan to militarize everything, especially industry, Ukraine also plans to “produce air defense systems.” “This is a strategic undertaking that we are pursuing together with our partners,” the Ukrainian president declared yesterday. These two statements reveal Ukraine’s objectives: to offer itself as a military tool for the United States and as cheap labor for the military production of the continental rearmament at a time when Washington no longer seems to be the infallible shield against all kinds of threats, real or imagined.

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