I think Trump ought to echo the plan of Clinton and NATO had back in the '90s, that stopped the genocide occurring in Yugoslavia. Just go in, separate the different cultures at war, and divide up the country, which they did.
In Ukraine we have a similar situation. With Western Ukraine, who supported the Nazis in WW2, and the mostly ethnic Eastern Ukrainians who fought the Nazis. Since the overthrow of the elected president in 2014, the Neo-Nazis in Western Ukraine started a war of genocide against the Eastern ethnic Russians. So split them up and stop the killing. If it was accepted by the leftists in the USA for Yugoslavia in the 90s, it should be accepted now by them.
To the degree that it’s even relevant in this discussion, your characterization of the Ukrainian population during WW2 is a gross mischaracterization of what actually happened.
First, Ukraine was occupied and subjugated by the Soviets, and Stalin intentionally starved millions of Ukrainians during the 1932-33 Holodomor. As such, there were some Ukrainian nationalists who embraced the Nazis primarily as a potential catalyst to end Soviet domination. But it’s not fair in any way to say the “western Ukraine supported the Nazis”.
Here’s more detail if you are interested, although I’ll say again that this has nominal impact on what’s happening today.
AI alert:
During World War II, Ukraine was not an independent country; it was part of the Soviet Union. The situation in Ukraine during the war was complex, with different groups taking different positions.
1. **Soviet Ukraine** – The majority of Ukrainians fought as part of the Soviet Red Army against Nazi Germany. Millions of Ukrainians served in the Soviet military, and Ukraine suffered immense destruction under Nazi occupation.
2. **Nazi Occupation** – When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, they occupied Ukraine, committing mass atrocities, including the Holocaust and the deliberate starvation of millions of people.
3. **Ukrainian Nationalist Movements** – Some Ukrainian nationalist groups, such as the **Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)** and the **Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)**, initially cooperated with the Nazis in hopes of gaining independence from the Soviet Union. However, their relationship with the Nazis was complicated. The Nazis did not support Ukrainian independence, and they later turned against these groups. The UPA eventually fought both the Nazis and the Soviets.
4. **Collaboration** – As in many occupied countries, some Ukrainians collaborated with the Nazis, joining auxiliary police forces and participating in war crimes, including the Holocaust. However, collaboration was not unique to Ukraine; similar events occurred in many occupied European nations.
5. **Resistance** – Many Ukrainians also actively resisted the Nazis, whether as part of Soviet partisan movements or other anti-German resistance efforts.
In short, Ukraine as a nation did not "support the Nazis" during World War II. While some nationalist factions initially sought an alliance with Germany against the Soviet Union, Ukraine was primarily a victim of both Nazi and Soviet oppression, and most Ukrainians fought against Nazi Germany as part of the Soviet Union.
