“Slava Ukraini” is the slogan @AdamKinzinger, a former U.S. congressman, displays in his username.
As a Jewish scholar of the Holocaust and Ukrainian nationalism, I find that choice deeply troubling.
This slogan is inseparable from a historical tradition of the OUN and UPA whose members and affiliates were implicated in anti-Jewish violence during the Holocaust, in the mass killing of Polish civilians, and later in violence against Ukrainians deemed politically or nationally “wrong.”
As an American taxpayer, I have another objection: “Glory to Ukraine” is not America First.
American taxpayers’ money should work for Americans — for its veterans, its children, its seniors, its communities. It should be used to confront the fentanyl epidemic, energy insecurity, crumbling infrastructure, and all the problems Americans face at home.
And as someone who is well informed about Ukrainian corruption, I oppose pouring American taxpayers’ money into Zelensky's regime plagued by corruption and serious accountability concerns.
I also oppose treating war as an open-ended business model in which Western money keeps flowing, politically connected interests prosper, and ordinary Ukrainians pay the highest price — with their lives.
So yes, seeing “Slava Ukraini” emblazoned on the profile of an American politician strikes me as more than merely odd. It raises questions.
This is not what American patriotism looks like. American patriotism means putting America and Americans first — not turning distant, endless foreign proxy wars into permanent political projects intertwined with the interests of the arms industry.
The bill goes to the American taxpayer.
The bloodiest part of the bill goes to ordinary Ukrainians.
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Brutal forced mobilization in Lviv.
And now, my dear defenders of conscription, imagine that the man being treated this way is your husband, your brother, your son.
Would you still defend it? Would you want this to happen to him?
Most likely, he will end up in the infantry — where the shortage of manpower is now catastrophic and where soldiers may survive only a few months.
And all of this is happening while the highest echelons of Ukraine’s government have spent the past year being rocked by corruption scandals involving hundreds of millions of euros.
So before you preach to other people about their “duty” to be forcibly sent to war, ask yourself one simple question:
Would you demand the same sacrifice if the man being dragged away were someone you loved?
Draft officers smashed the car window, pepper-sprayed the driver, brutally dragged him out, and forced him into their vehicle.
This is “busification” in Zelenskyy’s own hometown of Kryvyi Rih. It’s no wonder he needs so much security when he walks the streets.