As America’s drive for NATO expansion to Ukraine persists, the Ukrainian nationalism and neo-fascism it has used and engendered in pursuit of that goal has had an increasingly nefarious and divisive effect on American politics and its political system. This goes beyond the ‘mere’ polarisation and authoritarianization of American politics caused by disagreements over NATO expansion, the US role on the Maidan and in general in Ukraine after the Soviet collapse, and even involvement in the NATO-Russia Ukrainian War. In particular, US involvement in Ukraine has fostered corruption as high as in the White House itself and the repression of Americans, particularly unprecedented violations of their free speech rights by the Democrat Party- Deep State and the administration of President Joe Biden. Moreover, Ukrainian extremism since 2014 also has contributed to the growing tendency in U.S. politics to lie and circumvent the rule of law in pursuit of political goals at home and abroad. Controversy in the U.S. surrounding Ukraine and NATO policy there, fostered false charges of sedition against an American presidential candidate, Donald Trump (2016), crippled his presidency with trumped up impeachment charges and other campaigns, contributed to the causal chain leading up to the NATO-Russia Ukrainian War, led to U.S. government censorship on Facebook and Twitter and a general authoritarianization of American politics, motivated at least one attempted assassination of the Republican Party’s presidential candidate and former U.S. President Trump in 2024, and led to open interference in this year’s presidential campaign by Ukraine’s ostensible president, Volodomyr Zelenskiy.
The ubiquity of ethnic Ukrainians in both the Russiagate and Ukrainegate scandals is breathtaking: Democratic Party Director for Ethnic Affairs Alexandra Chalupa, Director for European Affairs for the United States National Security Council (NSC) Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman (offered the Ukrainian Defense Minister’s position by Zelenskiy), U.S. District Attorney for New Jersey Bogdan Vitvitskii (in one of the recently released audiotapes Poroshenko requested Biden to send Vitvitskii on the basis of an American recommendation to Kiev to become Washington’s overseer in the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office), among many others. Vitvitskii is just one of numerous Ukrainian diaspora members in America assigned to key posts representing the U.S. in Ukraine. Both of the most previous U.S. ambassadors were deeply involved in Ukrainian domestic politics. Former U.S. embassy official Natalya Jaresko became Ukraine’s Finance Minister under Poroshenko, and the tapes reveal an effort by the U.S. to get her appointed to prime minister’s position.
So for this article, I put aside deleterious effects of America’s support for Ukrainian nationalism and neofascism such as the drain on the U.S. budget and the U.S. military’s weapons stockpiles and the splitting of the world into two camps leading to the distancing from or outright opposition to the U.S. and the West on the part of ‘the Rest’ led by China and Russia. I focus exclusively on the degradation and schism that America’s NATO Ukraine obsession has engendered.
There came more Ukrainian corrupting of the U.S. political scene (and vice versa) in ‘Baidengate.’The Barack Obama administration, in particular then Vice President and Obama’s Ukraine point man, Joe Biden, used the threat of withholding economic assistance and IMF assistance in an effort to block then Ukrainian General Prosecutor Viktor Shokhin (poisoned twice in the process) from investigating the corruption of Biden’s and Kerry’s sons at the Burisma energy company where they became board members solely by virtue of their fathers’ political office. Shokhin resigned, and the Burisma investigation died. In other words, Biden and Kerry committed the very same act in more blatant and now proven fashion that the Democratic Party accused President Trump of committing (without the requisite evidence) in order to impeach him and were trading on their public office and dragging Ukraine’s state sovereignty through the mud (https://gordonhahn.com/2020/05/21/ukraine-baidengate-russiagate/ and audio tapes of perpetrators at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N4PmqyJrTI).
Then came the orchestrated impeachment charge against President Trump. This coup attempt had as its key witness the ethnic Ukrainian official of the United States National Security Council (NSC), Lt. Col. Alexander Windman, once offered the Ukrainian Defense Minister’s position. He claimed to have been informed by another NSC staffer that during one of President Trump’s phone calls with Zelenskiy the former had demanded a quid quo pro: U.S. aide for an investigation of Burisma and the Bidens. Trump did not attempt to coerce Zelenskii, as Zelenskii himself later said, and one can read the transcript to see there was no quid pro quo. Windman became the star witness at the congressional impeachment hearings, but it has turned out Ukrainian nationalist NSC officer Windman was exposed later to be the lone whistleblower on the Trump-Zelenskiy call; Windman was the only one of those who listened in on the call to express concern over Trump’s words (https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-driving-force-behind-trumps-impeachment-was-not-the-whistleblower-new-book-alleges).
In other words, VP Biden used American taxpayers‘ money to bribe Ukrainian officials to cease its investigation of his corrupt son Biden who with the ‘Big Guy’ (Joe Biden) was running a business out of the White House with China, Russia, Ukraine, among others. The Democratic party’s failed impeachment of President Trump was an effort to cover up the trail that leads from the Biden scandal to the State Department, US intelligence services, if not Barak Obama’s Oval Office itself and — in the form of a coordinated media/information coverup — to much to the rest of the Washington establishment (government, think tanks, foundations) — especially but not solely the Democratic establishment — through George Soros to corrupt officials, oligarchs, and neofascist groups in Ukraine. Specifically, the US government and allied governments and private institutions were at least buying off Ukrainian politicians to control their government and perhaps illegally financing a proxy war in Donbass by money-laundering funds (a disappeared billions of dollars) through Kolomoiskii’s Burisma and Privatbank.
The laundered money went in two directions: from Burisma to the Bidens and from the US government to Privatbank and onto the battalions and who knows what else. The latter flow helped to control institutions such as NABU (the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, whose officials helped Biden to block investigation of Burisma) and assisted Kolomoiskii in his financing Kiev’s volunteer battalions organized by MVD Chief Arsen Avakov and manned by ultra-nationalist and neofascist groups such as Right Sector and the National-Social Assembly. Recall US State Department official George Kent’s lack of concern over the billions of US aid that went missing at Privatbank (https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/435906-us-embassy-pressed-ukraine-to-drop-probe-of-george-soros-group-during-2016).
This raises a host of questions. After all, it was the same cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike that provided the ‘evidence’ that Russians had hacked the DNC server. Neither the FBI nor any other law enforcement or intelligence body ever request or gain access to the server (https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/312767-fbi-never-examined-hacked-dnc-servers-report). Crowdstrike’s president, Dmitrii Alperovitch, is a member of the pro-NATO Atlantic Council. Crowdstrike has done frequent contract work for the U.S. government, especially during the Obama years, and Crowdstrike’s personnel is replete with former U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials with a Democratic party preference. There are reports that Alperovitch’s wife is the sister of the Ukrainian-American Ukrainian nationalist Alexandra Chalupa, who began the original investigations of the Trump campaign’s Carter Page and Paul Manafort in cahoots with Ukrainian officials, including the Ukrainian Embassy and NABU, which was controlled by the US Embassy in Kiev and George Soros. What Crowdstrike activities did Burisma fund through PrivatBank? If FVEY indeed stands for the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence alliance, what are Burisma and Privatbank doing ‘financing’ the activities of Crowdstrike, Western intelligence, rogue State Department operatives, and the Atlantic Council? Does this explain why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) suddenly reversed her position against impeachment the morning after the transcript of the Trump-Zelenskiy conversation took place in which Trump mentioned ‘Crowdstrike’.
Of further interest from this same court case is that Hunter Biden requested (and the court granted his request upon certain conditions) not to have to submit any financial records on sources of his income covering the last five years; that is, from the time he began ‘working’ for Burisma. Furthermore, Burisma’s and Privatbank’s Kolomoiskii had been barred from US on suspicion of murder and “beheadings,” but after the Bidens struck up partnership with him and he had served ‘US interests in Donbass’, he was suddenly given a visa to the US. Kolomoiskii is an associate of Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy (See ‘Ukraine: The Final Piece,’ The Blaze, 6 February 2020, www.theblaze.com/glenn-beck-special/ukraine-corruption-obama), at the 1:01:10 mark in video). Kolomoiskii is now under arrest in Ukraine and has been out of sight for some two years. He is a man who knows too much?
Muddying the waters or securing silence on Ukraine-related issues has been a central focus of U.S. media, including the social net. One can recall the 50 Deep State signatories’ muddying op (former CIA directors and the like) by way of publishing an open letter during the 2020 Biden-Trump presidential race claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop and its information, much of it Ukraine and Ukrainegate related and leaked top the press, were a Russian influence operation (www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276). It later emerged that this letter was another case of the Democrat Party-State doing what it accuses others of doing—in this case issuing misinformation to influence an election campaign, whitewash Ukrainian influence in the U.S., and thereby further the cause of NATO expansion to Ukraine (https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1432). Hunter is soon to be imprisoned on the lesser ‘cover up’ charge of tax fraud based on the ‘Russian misinformation.’
Given all of the above, it is not surprising that as Ukraine’s plight worsens and America’s politics devolves into a cold civil war, Ukrainians and pro-Ukrainians are involved in violence and terrorism. Moreover, many in America’s Ukrainian diaspora are descendants of members of Ukraine’s World War II-era neo-Nazi organizations, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Ukrainian Partisan Army, and they have close ties to successor and OUN and UPA wannabes that engage in political violence and terrorism both in Ukraine and abroad, including attempts at such by their trainees here in the U.S. (https://gordonhahn.com/2020/04/07/report-the-new-terrorist-threat-ukrainian-ultra-nationalist-and-neo-fascist-terrorism-at-home-and-abroad/). It may be worth noting in this regard that, as Ivan Katchanovski notes, in the years before and during WW II an OUN terrorist was involved not only assassinations of the Polish minister of internal affairs, the French foreign minister and the king of Yugoslavia but also was recruited by the Nazis to kill U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (www.academia.edu/3378079/The_Politics_of_World_War_II_in_Contemporary_Ukraine, p. 220, citing archival documents).
As pro-Ukrainians and perhaps a Ukrainian wet team attempt to kill a duly selected Republican Party candidate for the U.S. presidency, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy has come to the U.S. and in a fashion unprecedented in American history openly injected himself into, interfered in the U.S. presidential campaign. On September 24th he campaigned with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and called Trump’s vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance “too radical” and said Trump did not know how to stop the war despite his claims, joining the chorus of the Democrat Party-State and its ubiquitous media (www.foxnews.com/politics/volodymyr-zelenskyys-vance-criticisms-could-come-back-haunt-him-republicans-warn and https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4895400-volodymyr-zelensky-jd-vance-too-radical/). Moreover, the White House has claimed that it was Kiev that requested the Pennsylvania factory plant visit (https://penncapital-star.com/election-2024/white-house-pentagon-push-back-on-republican-criticism-of-zelenskyys-scranton-visit/). Indeed House of Representatives Speaker, Republican Mike Johnson, called upon Zelenskiy in a letter to fire Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S. for interfering in the presidential campaign, and House Republicans opened an investigation into the genesis of the trip (www.speaker.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2024.09.25-Letter-to-Zelenskyy-Final-.pdf and https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/09/25/congress/johnson-to-zelenskyy-fire-ambassador-00181029). So Maidan Ukraine is intentionally intervening in this U.S. presidential election in order to influence its outcome in favor of the Democrat Party-State candidate. In doing so, it has made be the latest and perhaps one of the most harmful injections of poison into America’s body politic to have resulted from our neo-colonial efforts to expand NATO and Western hegemony to Ukraine and elsewhere along Russia’s border and beyond.
It is an ironic and perhaps just that the 25-year record of U.S. interference in Ukraine, which gravely split Ukraine’s Ukrainophile and Russophile populations and regions, has ended in Ukrainian interference in American politics that is exacerbating the already deep schism in the American body politic.
The details of the peace deal presented today by US special envoy Steve Witkoff are consistent with the report in the Financial Times discussed in my previous article and with Larry Sparano in the posted interview. Putin will halt the Russian advance prior to driving Ukrainian soldiers out of all of the territory that has been reincorporated into Russia. It appears to be the case that the borders between Russia and Ukraine will be the current front line, so Putin is withdrawing Russia’s claim to the Russian territories still under Ukrainian occupation.
Russia and the US seem near a Ukraine peace deal. Kyiv’s role may be moot.
President Donald Trump’s hopes of securing a quick Ukraine peace deal hang in the balance after Washington’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, held his fourth Kremlin meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday.
