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European lawmakers appeared to back Poland over grievances with the Kiev regime’s honoring of WWII-era Nazis. But a closer look at the wording reveals a sinister cover-up, calling the Kiev move “regrettable” and avoiding a clear condemnation.

The bottom line is that Members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg voted by a large majority (460 versus 136) on a resolution for Ukraine to join the EU. As part of that resolution was an amendment that “criticized” the Kiev regime for honoring Ukrainian historical figures associated with Nazi Germany and “disregarding” Polish sensitivities.

Note: criticism is not condemnation. In this context, it is a puny slap on the wrist, which effectively means nothing and actually offers impunity.

According to the European Parliament, the amendment stated: “Regarding the renaming of an elite military unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces after the heroes of the UPA [Ukrainian Insurgent Army], MEPs regret the disregard for Polish sensitivities and grief, and consider that this decision undermines neighbourly relations, calling for de-escalation and renewed efforts in good faith towards reconciliation.”

All that amounts to convoluted verbiage designed to hide the issue of celebrating Nazism by a regime bankrolled and weaponized by European lawmakers.

Western media outlets tried to talk up the Strasbourg vote as a “condemnation” of Ukraine’s unelected president, Vladimir Zelensky. It was not a condemnation. It is an abject cover-up of the NeoNazi regime and its vile politics.

The European Parliament was more concerned about tamping down the controversy and diplomatic crisis between Poland and Ukraine in order to project a unified effort in the proxy war effort against Russia. Hence, all the blandishments about not undermining neighborly relations and the eager promotion of reconciliation between Warsaw and Kiev.

The diplomatic crisis erupted last month when Ukraine’s Zelensky named an elite commando unit after the “Heroes of the UPA” – the Ukrainian Insurgent Army that collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War Two. The UPA carried out massacres of Poles, Jews, fellow Ukrainians and Russians during WWII in league with the Nazi Wehrmacht and Waffen SS divisions. One of the biggest massacres involved the execution of 100,000 Polish civilians in Volyn (Volhynia) in what is now Western Ukraine during 1943-44.

Poland has officially recognized these mass killings as genocide and has condemned the UPA. Ukraine continues to deny responsibility and considers the leaders of the UPA as heroes for independence. Incredibly, Zelensky is nominally Jewish, and yet he has officiated over honoring historical figures like Stepan Bandera, Andriy Melnyk and Roman Shukavech, who led the collaboration with Nazi Germany. Ukrainian revisionism perverts the historical record by claiming that the collaboration was an expedient policy to defeat the Soviet Union.

The Kiev regime’s honoring of the UPA has been an ongoing source of tensions with Poland for many years, but those tensions were cynically suppressed by Warsaw’s shared geopolitical agenda of fomenting hostility towards Russia.

However, the recent honorifics in Kiev broke Warsaw’s threshold of tolerance. Polish President Karol Nawrocki has taken a more vigilant line about historical legacy, unlike his predecessor Andrzej Duda, who bestowed the highest Polish state honor on Zelensky in 2023. After Zelensky honored the UPA in May and oversaw the reburial of Nazi figure Andriy Melnky, President Nawrocki denounced the outrage and revoked the Order of the White Eagle.

For weeks, the row between Poland and Ukraine has escalated. Polish people have taken to the streets to condemn the Kiev regime’s veneration of Nazi figures and the insult to the victims of genocide. Most Poles are now opposed to Ukraine joining the European Union.

This has led to a deeper crisis within the EU and NATO. Poland has been a key supporter of the proxy war against Russia. Warsaw is a crucial conduit for NATO weapons and logistics to support the Kiev regime. The row presents an unwelcome problem to the flow of weapons. But just as important is the problem of disunity within the EU and NATO that the spat creates. If Ukraine’s membership is prevented, then that undermines the whole geopolitical agenda of using the country as a spearhead against Russia.

Equally important is that the crisis exposes the true nature of the Kiev regime and the false EU and NATO propaganda narrative that has portrayed Ukraine as a victim of “unprovoked Russian aggression.”

Zelensky doesn’t have a democratic mandate after cancelling elections more than two years ago. He is ruling as a dictator; his regime is rife with corruption, and the Ukrainian people are rioting against forced conscription into a mind-grinder war against Russia. The Western media are reporting none of this.

Moscow has consistently maintained that the CIA/NATO-backed coup in Kiev in 2014 ushered in a NeoNazi regime that the West has weaponized in a proxy war against Russia. The glorification of Nazi collaborators, for example, the official commemoration of Bandera, Melnyk, the UPA, and so on, is impossible to deny. But what the Western backers of Ukraine have assiduously endeavored to do is cover up this odious affiliation.

What does that say about the political leaders of the U.S. and Europe if they are funding a NeoNazi regime with hundreds of billions of dollars paid for by Western citizens? This is a massive criminal war racket, and Western governments and media are totally complicit in it. The entire Western political establishment has been Nazified. Arguably, it always was since the end of WWII, when NATO was formed in 1949.  The difference is that now fascism is increasingly flaunted in Western states. Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, also commemorate Nazi collaborators with public events and tributes. Again, the Western media do not report this. Covering up is imperative.

The European Parliament this week was not acting out of principle or historical truth. Far from it. Strasbourg was in damage control mode and trying to whitewash the Nazi filth that it is willing to fund with public money and to admit into the European Union. We should not be surprised. After all, this is the same parliament that adopted a shameful resolution in 2019 that sought to blame the Soviet Union as a co-belligerent with Nazi Germany for starting WWII. That is, historical revisionism to diminish the crimes of Nazi Germany, demonize the Russian people, and propagate neo-imperialist war against present-day Russia.

What the European Union is doing is incubating Nazi fascism under the guise of “European values” and platitudes. The cover-up for the Kiev regime is permitting its politics of hate to flourish and spread across Europe. An assassination bid in Monaco implicating the regime is overlooked. Corruption by Zelensky and his cronies is brushed under the carpet. Nazi salutes and torchlit parades in Kiev are ignored.

This week saw Polish political figures put on a Ukrainian state-backed watchlist that many observers have noted serves as a “kill list”. The Mirotvorets database named a Polish MEP and the Polish presidential aide as “enemies of Ukraine” for their outspoken criticism of the Nazi legacy issue.

This is the regime that the EU and NATO are pledging to supply with another $160 billion in military aid. This regime honors Nazis and threatens to kill anyone who speaks out against its fascist corruption.

European lawmakers call this “regrettable” only because it makes them and their institutions look grotesque from their systematic complicity. The European Parliament has become a Nazi whitewashing machine.