I class myself as fairly ambivalent to this conflict… I just know it needs to stop and stop now. Having no previous knowledge of the tensions that have existed between these two countries before this conflict, I’ve read a lot about it since. My personal view is that both sides have a real problem with right wing extremism and the civil war that has been waged in the Donbas since 2014 was/is a war of contrition between two very right wing (Nazi) elements… the Ukrainian Azov Battalion and the Russian groups like the Wolves’ Hundred.

But ultimately, Putin has used this “Nazi” excuse to perform a very right wing and imperialist landgrab…. he won’t succeed and I can see in the months ahead that this conflict is going to become bogged down on both fronts and will go on for years.

I think we need to read through the lines of this conflict and to a degree and unemotionally see it from both sides. Here’s a very good article from Cato on the ins and outs of this “Nazi” problem.

https://www.cato.org/commentary/smea...-anti-semitism