By Dimitris Scarpalezos (*)
Nov 13, 2025
The memory of a goldfish has always been the weapon of regime propaganda, and often distinguished progressive commentators settle into this stunted memory to be pleasing both to progressives and to their overlords.
The war in Ukraine is a case where this stunted memory leads to dangerous situations for the survival of humanity.
When we have two nuclear superpowers, each one fears the possibility of a “first strike,” meaning a strike that would be carried out in such a way as to destroy the country and prevent retaliation.
This was the main reason why America could not allow Soviet missiles in Cuba, and Russia cannot tolerate NATO armies in Ukraine and Georgia.
This should be understood by those who claim to care about peace!
At the time of German reunification, the US promised that NATO would not move “one inch” eastward. A promise they soon violated. The continuous eastward expansion of NATO was a provocation to Russia’s security.
NATO’s decision in 2008 to open the possibility of Ukraine and Georgia joining NATO was on the verge of a declaration of war.
Since the end of the twentieth century, US neoconservative intellectuals have imagined a Ukraine-Russia conflict in order to dismantle or control the latter.
I have no sympathy for Putin’s conservative authoritarian governance, but Putin at least does not accept the colonization of his country.
In the last democratic elections in Ukraine, without “decommunization,” without nationalist assault battalions, and without the abolition of opposition parties, the multi-ethnic people of Ukraine elected Yanukovych, whose program promised neutrality between NATO and Russia and protection of ethnic and linguistic minorities. The majority of the Ukrainian people chose Neutrality.
The US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland invested, according to her own words, five billion dollars to ensure the success of the overthrow in 2014 of the elected president by the Maidan “movement” and with the help of armed neo-Nazis, despite the fact that the opposition and the government had agreed to early elections.
The two provocative measures of the interim government formed under Nuland’s supervision were the elevation of the Nazi collaborator and anti-Semitic murderer Stepan Bandera to a national hero and the de-legitimization of the Russian language, which alienated the Russian-speaking provinces from Kyiv (think of the reaction in Geneva, Switzerland, if a German-speaking nationalist government de-legitimized French).
These two fascist measures ignited the civil war, and the “politically correct” commentators lock them away so as not to challenge their narrative.
The reconquest of the Russian provinces was carried out mainly by neo-fascist battalions like “AZOV,” with thousands of victims among the disorganized Russian speakers (Former French Minister of Education Luc Ferry spoke of six thousand victims, mainly unarmed civilians, in addition to the more than ten thousand victims of the bombings of the cities of the rebellious Donbas).
The West sabotaged the Minsk 2 agreements, which provided for the country’s neutrality and autonomy for the rebellious people’s republics of Donbas, albeit within the framework of Ukraine, and Merkel and Hollande explained that they signed them as guarantors only to buy time for the arming of the Ukrainian regime.
When the Russian invasion began, Zelensky proposed in the spring of 2022 an agreement that would impose neutrality on the country, protection for the Russian-speaking minority, the cession of Crimea to Russia according to the decision of its people, and an autonomous status for the two “people’s republics” of Donbas.
The West intervened to prevent it, resulting in over six hundred thousand Ukrainian dead and over one hundred and fifty thousand Russians in the trenches, in a slaughter of soldiers reminiscent of the First World War.
Today, with the cover of the West, the heroization of Bandera and the de-legitimization of the Russian language continue in Ukraine.
Finally, regarding the improper analogy attempted between the victims of Russian bombings and the Israeli bombings in Gaza, we must look at some numbers.
In Ukraine, we have one unarmed civilian dead for every ten dead soldiers in the trenches.
While in Gaza, we have over ten dead unarmed civilians for every one combatant.
And in all the wars of the West (Serbia, Iraq, Libya, etc.), the dead civilians are far more numerous than the dead soldiers of the “enemy.”
The “politically correct” solidarity with the regime in Ukraine, with the concealment of major aspects of reality, can become a weapon for horror, because the continuation of the war with the active and open participation of the West could lead to a nuclear conflict!
(*) Former Professor of Mathematics, University of Paris XII (Diderot)
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