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They are, but while wicked problems (what Bostonians call "math") are very difficult to resolve to the satisfaction of everyone, some approaches are far worse than others.
Ukraine's approach -- failing to control the neo-Nazi paramilitaries in their midst, then allowing those paramilitaries to violate the Minsk agreements while running away from your largest neighbor and in to the arms of the U.S. empire, then skipping offramps in the lead up to the war and in its first months -- was a particularly bad one.
can you hint me to some further reading?
On what, in particular?
This. The later parts I have read about.
OSCE had a mission through the entire period 2014-2022 as observers and released daily reports of the region together with ceasefire violations so we can find it for pretty much any day online like this one from 2022-02-03, and you can look up others here.
I can't find it anymore but there was a video floating around of Zelensky inspecting the troops and telling them to stop attacking the DNR and the soldiers telling him straight up no. Although I can't find that video you can look at the election results from 2019, Zelensky ran on a platform of brokering a peace calming tensions with ethnic russians and general prosperity which is why Poroshenko accused Zelenski of selling out to Russia. A ton of people in eastern ukraine wanted things to calm down and that's why he got the most votes there, but the military and the neo-nazi paramilitaries kept on doing their thing and here we are.
For me this sounds not too (in relative terms) bad, on Zelensky's part. I live in the EU and many (possibly all) of our member states are rather bad at handling Neo-nazis (This is actually one of our most pressing issues, but broadly ignored by the public).
Usually those Nazis in Germany, Finland, etc. are not continuously shelling a section of their country for 8 years
Ahh. Here's a good start:
That's a pretty good overview of the character of Ukraine's neo-Nazis, as well as some on the scale of the problem. It mentions they sent "volunteer battalions" to the separatist regions, but does not have tons of detail on what they were doing there. This one has more detail on that:
In this next section, note how the neo-Nazis are declaring they'll do whatever they want, and see themselves as held back by the actual military:
And of course:
Sorry I only looked at the pictures and did not read the text jet. I will read it on some commute tomorrow. But the pictures are frightening as the recent global rise of fascism is. I'm worried of the times to come.
Just read about what Azov was doing from 2014 to the invasion