I don’t want to be all conspiracy theory girl but sometimes one just wonders.
Zelensky went to Canada, and Justin Trudeau handed him the worst PR defeat of the century. It’s beyond humiliating, and I want to think there’s no intent behind it but even for the mega incompetent Trudeau this is too much.
So Zelensky is in the Canadian Parliament, right? Suddenly, it’s announced, “And now let’s honor a Ukrainian hero of World War II who’s 98 years old and living here in Canada!” Of course, it’s a World War II hero, so everybody is happy and applauds.
But then guess what? It turns out that the old dude did fight heroically in WWII. A small detail, though. He fought on Hitler’s side. “The hero” was part of the infamous Waffen SS “Galizien” consisting of Ukrainians who supported Hitler. There were very few of those bastards. Every nation has its baddies, and these are ours. They are constantly thrown in our faces when, for example, nobody wants to mention the Russians who fought for Hitler under the leadership of General Vlasov. And nobody drags out any Russian Nazis (past or present) when Russian dignitaries visit (or used to).
“Ukrainians are all Nazis” is our blood libel. It’s like asking Netanyahu on a state visit if he enjoyed the Christian baby he ate for breakfast. It’s like decorating the room with swastikas for Olaf Scholz’s visit. It’s hard to find another nation that suffered from Hitler more than Ukraine but we have to be not only insulted but currently genocided for our utterly imaginary Nazism.
And then comes Trudeau and confirms everything that Russian propaganda has been saying about Ukraine. The squeals of delight coming from Russia and from every useful moron it bought itself here in the US are deafening. “Ukrainian Nazis! We told you!”
Trudeau, as always, blamed somebody else, took no responsibility, and waved away questions in a manner that the propagandists found mega useful. I know he’s a loser who’s so incompetent he probably has 5 people helping him pee in the morning. He can mess up anything. Still, there are so few of these Ukrainian Hitler collaborators and so many Ukrainians who fought against Hitler (even though they are all dying of old age now) that one wonders how easy it is to make such a mistake.
We were all so happy when Zelensky went to Canada. Ukrainian Canadians were all touched to tears, and there are many of us. But that’s how Trudeau treats one of the largest historical communities in Canada. He spits at us during one of our harshest times in history, and then he wouldn’t even apologize normally to put an end to rumors.
It’s an absolute disgrace but Trudeau won’t pay. Ukrainians will.