Can the US Please Stop Supporting Genocidal Nazis?

The conflicts in Ukraine and Palestine reveal how the US ends up on the wrong side of history.

Many people are seeking to find common threads between the conflicts in Ukraine and in Israel-Palestine. People are comparing Ukraine to Palestine; others are comparing Ukraine to Israel. Discussions are proliferating about a people’s right to resist occupation, or a country’s right to defend itself.

I have been struck by a similarity that focuses more on the United States, and on which entities (sides) the US chooses to support — or perhaps as a result of history, finds itself supporting.

Unfortunately, all too often, the US ends up supporting fascist, ultranationalist and genocidal regimes.

Ukraine and Israel are two examples of this.

Why the US supports Israel and Ukraine

The US supports Israel and Ukraine for the same outdated Cold War reason: to oppose the Soviet Union, and now Russia.

The US and Ukraine

In the case of Ukraine, the US CIA has been cultivating anti-Russian elements since 1947. That anti-Soviet covert campaign never really went away. The US always saw Russia as a…