Reprimanding Himmler, or How America Fights Nazism in Ukraine

The Hillary Syndrome

In recent years, the United States has caused surprise and even alarm in the foreign policy arena. I am not speaking now about military invasions and bombings — everyone got used to that a long time ago.

But American politicians and diplomats have suddenly forgotten how to save face and have indulged in actions and statements that make one question their sanity.

You can talk all you want about what a dictator and a villain Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was, but his brutal murder, involving gruesome torture, does not fit whatsoever into notions about a “struggle for the lofty ideals of democracy.”

And just how did U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton react to it? Having received a text message, Mrs. Clinton exclaimed, “Wow!” started laughing gleefully and blurted out, “We came, we saw, he died.”

Of course, it’s possible to find an excuse for Mrs. Clinton’s behavior. Perhaps her mind has not fully recovered following the shock caused by her president-husband’s history of relations with intern Monica Lewinsky.

But it turns out that the situation with the employees at the U.S. embassy in Ukraine isn’t any better.

Disciplining along the Party Line

As is well known, U.S. officials refused to notice the presence of Nazis at the Euromaidan even when these same Nazis chanted their slogans directly into their ears and waved their flags right in front of their faces. Moreover, American diplomats came to the Maidan in order to feed the Nazis various tasty morsels by hand.

At that point, it was not just Russians, but also Western Europeans who were shouting at the top of their lungs, “Take a look at who’s running the show! These are real fascists!”

Journalists from Germany, Britain and France began to use the word “Nazis” in their stories in reference to Kiev’s militants, but the Americans continued not to notice them.

But after three members from the Nazi party Svoboda beat up the head of Ukraine’s National Television Company, which shocked even many of Kiev’s staunch Euromaidan supporters, it became simply impossible to remain silent.

And then the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine issued a statement that said, in part, “We urge the Svoboda party to discipline Svoboda MP Ihor Miroshnychenko and other party members involved in the incident.”

A statement such as this by American diplomats in Ukraine is perhaps even more striking than Hillary Clinton’s revelations.

The West knows full well what the Svoboda party is all about. In December 2012, the European Parliament adopted a resolution that declared that racist and xenophobic views completely contradict the values and principles of the European Union. Oleh Tyahnybok, the party’s leader, landed on a list of the world’s most influential anti-Semites compiled by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, known for its many years of hunting down Nazi war criminals.

Appearing on the very same list is Ihor Miroshnychenko, a participant in the beating of the head of the National Television Company, who gained notoriety in the U.S. for having called Ukraine-born Hollywood star Mila Kunis a “Jewess.”

In other words, employees of the U.S. embassy in Kiev cannot be under any illusions regarding whom they face.

Call the Men in White Coats!

And now, imagine that during World War II, American diplomats appealed to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) to discipline Heinrich Himmler and other party members intent on the “final solution of the Jewish question.”

Total nonsense? Excuse me, but how does it differ from the current statements by the U.S. Embassy in Kiev? Only in that Mr. Miroshnychenko has not yet begun to whisk away Kiev’s Jews to Babi Yar? But it’s only a matter of time: Neither the actions nor slogans of Svoboda’s activists leave any doubt that they are quite ready for it.

Fighting Nazis along the party line — now that’s something new. Instead of the decisive and hard-line position of demanding a ban on Nazi organizations in Ukraine, American diplomats propose wagging a finger at them. And not even their own finger, but the finger of their brothers-in-arms.

There are only two possible explanations here. Either the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has taken on patients from a psychiatric hospital somewhere in Texas, or the U.S. administration has seriously decided to create a Nazi state in Ukraine, intending to use it to put pressure on Russia.

And if the second scenario is correct, there will also be plenty of work for the men in white coats with their straitjacket, only at a different address — the White House, Washington, D.C.