Aaron Nelson

February 14, 2015

(ANTIMEDIA ) For those of us already aware of Dmitry Yarosh and his coalition of neo-Nazi paramilitary groups operating in Ukraine called ‘Right Sector‘, their blatant rejection of peace comes as no surprise.

Just two days before the ceasefire was set to officially begin, Yarosh rejected the Minsk peace deal and announced his “own plans” to continue “active fighting“ with East Ukrainians, whom he continued to call “terrorists”. Boldly ignoring the German and French push for peace in the region after striking a February 15th ceasefire date agreed to by Poroshenko and a contact group in Donbass (Poroshenko would not attend meetings with “terrorists“) brokered by Putin, Yarosh argued that Ukraine’s government should have turned to the US for a solution because they “observe a consistent anti-Kremlin policy.”

Following the coup which Obama openly admits to “brokering the power transition“, Dmitry Yarosh was officially named the #2 Ukrainian national security official, working directly under Andreiy Paribuiy, the leader of Ukraine’s other neo-Nazi party called Svoboda. Groups like these were rewarded positions of power by the post-coup government of Ukraine for their efforts in leading the Maidan protesters to success in Kiev nearly one year ago.

Some of you are surely already thinking: “Neo-Nazi’s in Ukraine? Please, that is just Russian propaganda.”

My advice to you would be to stop believing corporate-owned US media outlets. Even the BBC admits the presence of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine. This is not a joke in Europe.

While many Americans laugh at the thought of present day Nazis in Ukraine, Germans were horrified by the evening news last September when public broadcaster ZDF played a video showing Ukrainian soldiers with Nazi symbols on their helmets. The emergence of Nazi ideology in Ukraine definitely helps explain why the Chancellor of Germany suddenly initiated emergency peace talks in Minsk, just as it appeared the US would begin arming Ukrainian soldiers.

Isn’t it a little bit odd that only the United States, Ukraine and Canada voted against the UN’s anti-Nazi resolution “condemning attempts to glorify Nazism ideology and denial of German Nazi war crimes“? This is out of 173 countries in total.

Unlike the fake photos of Russian tanks in Ukraine released by US senator Jim Inhofe this week, the video shot in Ukraine by a camera team from Norwegian broadcaster TV2 is legitimate. There are real Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi symbols on their helmets. This is no secret in Germany.

With so many Ukrainians refusing to join the military because they no longer believe in Poroshenko’s cause, the paramilitary groups glorifying Nazi ideology — such as Yarosh’s Right Sector — have led many of the “anti-terrorist” operations conducted on east Ukrainians. It was recently revealed by a German intelligence report that Ukraine’s civil war has caused at least 50,000 deaths.

It seems that questioning why half a million Ukrainians would flee to Russia for safety from Ukraine’s military (the ‘good guys‘), is expecting too much of the mainstream media.

In July of last year, Yarosh was placed upon Interpol’s most wanted list, answering Russia’s request to issue an arrest warrant for his “public incitement to terrorist and extremist activities involving the use of mass media.” Last month, a member of President Petro Poroshenko’s staff warned that paramilitary units of the Right Sector movement were refusing to follow the orders of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry.

“The (Minsk peace) talks were very difficult, we expect the process of implementation (of the agreement) will be difficult,” Poroshenko told a news conference yesterday.

Is Right Sector playing their own game and making up the rules as they see fit?

Are they still friendly with Ukraine’s government, or is Poroshenko at risk of being chased out of Kiev, like former President Yanukovych was, by new anti-government protesters supported by people like Dmitry Yarosh?

Why does the corporate-owned media continue to ignore the presence of these rogue paramilitary groups in Ukraine that apparently cannot be controlled by Ukraine’s Defense Ministry? Clearly, Right Sector and Svoboda are playing a critical role in Ukraine’s civil war.

It reminds me of when the mainstream media ignored the critical role al-Qaeda (and al-Nusra) played inside Syrian rebels groups (like the FSA) armed and supported for years by President Obama and the CIA. That is, silent until a massive army of terrorists using US weapons calling themselves the ‘Islamic State‘ magically appeared in Syria with ties to al-Qaeda in Iraq. Now the presence of these Jihadist militants across Syria is common knowledge. Oops.

In May of last year the world was horrified when dozens of Ukrainians were brutally murdered in what is commonly referred to as the ‘Odessa Massacre‘. Many witnesses of the attack immediately suspected the participation of Right Sector or Svoboda in the massacre, but the official investigation was abandoned last month after the judges were unable enter the courtroom because of fights outside between Right Sector members and relatives of the victims.

A full day before Ukrainian officials claimed a ‘cigarette butt‘ caused the massive explosion in Donetsk last weekend, none other than Dmitry Yarosh claimed on his Facebook that the blast killed about “200 terrorists”, causing many to wonder whether or not Right Sector could have been responsible.

If President Obama is at all serious about ending Ukraine’s civil war, there couldn’t be a better opportunity to show the world that the US supports peace in the region by “twisting the arms” of President Poroshenko to “do what we need him to do“.

It’s simple:

Internationally condemn the Right Sector coalition led by Dmitry Yarosh (wanted by Interpol) for threatening the safety of all Ukrainians by choosing to ignore the ceasefire agreed to in Minsk.

There are no more excuses. If Right Sector ignores the agreement and continues to wage war on Donbass without being condemned for their actions, the ceasefire will surely fail. Hopefully this is not the outcome desired by Poroshenko and Obama to provoke a response by the southeast Ukrainians or Russia, justifying the arming of Ukraine’s military because ‘peace failed‘.

The good news is that by the end of the month if Merkel or Hollande have not yet accused Putin of violating the Minsk peace deal, the US position of arming Ukraine’s military will likely cease to exist.

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