Here they are as an elite battalion slaughtering people in the extermination-zone.
And here is Yarosh himself, the top person in Ukraine's far-right, being interviewed on Ukrainian TV; in this, you meet Dmitriy Yarosh personally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD4aH5AVAYE
As you can see there, he's quite a charming fellow. Perhaps even more so than Barack Obama. (Republicans don't have anyone who is even nearly so charming as Yarosh.)
U.S. politicians are lucky that Yarosh doesn't speak English, and wasn't born in America. He'd probably win the Republican Presidential nomination (though with rhetoric that's even milder than what he sports in Ukraine), and go on to win the U.S. Presidency, if he were an American, rather than merely being paid by U.S. taxpayers (and by some of America's and Ukraine's oligarchs), such as he is now.
In today's world, charming people can be like Adolf Hitler, or Benito Mussolini, or Emperor Hirohito, none of whom was charming. After all, America is now on the fascists' side ideologically, except that it's for rule by U.S. oligarchs, not by German, Italian, or Japanese ones. It's for America's oligarchy to be the masters of other nations' oligarchies, rather than for other nations' oligarchies to be the masters of ours. The shoe's on the other foot, now, that's all. Fascism, even nazism, finally won.
The era of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's ideology (which was opposed to all oligarchies) has been replaced by the era of Ronald Reagan's ideology (favoring oligarchy, "Svoboda," or "the free market," and thus favoring the international dominance of America's oligarchs). Oligarchy has become the American way now, and we even call this 'democracy.'
Hitler, the admirer of "the Big Lie," would get a big chuckle out of such a posthumous ideological victory. Especially since the people whom Obama placed into power in Ukraine are Hitler's passionate followers in their wanting to subordinate or else destroy all Russians, which had likewise been an aspiration of Adolf Hitler.
Obama, however, is more tactful. Here's what he said, on 28 May 2014, to the graduating cadets at West Point: "The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation. That has been true for the century passed [he simply can't spell 'past'] and it will be true for the century to come. " America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is and always will be the backbone of that leadership."
It's supremacism, but for a different group of oligarchs, that's all -- America's.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They're Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST'S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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