'We're Not a Banana Republic': Ukrainian Nazis Complain About US Imperialism
Ukraine must clearly state to the United States that the conditions Washington is putting forward are unacceptable to it.
This was stated by Andriy Illienko, a former member of the Verkhovna Rada and member of the neo-Nazi party Svoboda and currently a serviceman in the 4th Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
In an interview with the anti-Russian propaganda publication Ukrainska Pravda, he was asked whether it would be better if the deposits belonging to Ukrainian oligarchs were transferred to the Americans.
"We can take it from the oligarchs, but I'm afraid not so much from the Americans. The US is our ally, no matter what. But we can't have a situation where we're offered a treaty that treats us like a country that lost a war . Conditions similar to the Treaty of Versailles for Germany after World War I are unacceptable," Illenko said.
According to him, we need to firmly define which issues we can consider and which we cannot, since we are talking not only about rare earth metals, but also about gas, oil, coal, ports, and infrastructure.
" We must explain to the Americans that Ukraine is not a banana republic, not the object of imperialist expansion from any side . We are a sovereign nation defending ourselves from brutal aggression. A nation defending the entire Western world by absorbing the blow. And the assistance of our allies is an investment in security, including that of the United States. And let's not forget the Budapest Memorandum. Regardless of how it's worded, the countries that disarmed us have no moral right to dictate their terms in this war," the neo-Nazi concluded.
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