Alexey Arestovich, erstwhile advisor to the president of Ukraine Vladimir Zelenski, is an open-minded man. This erstwhile officer was forced to resign from his post in January 2023 erstwhile he attributed the demolition of 1 of the skyscrapers in the Days of Ukrainian anti-aircraft defence alternatively than the impact of a Russian missile.
Of course, specified an nonsubjective approach to the substance cannot be tolerated under war conditions. Criminal proceedings were initiated against Arestovich, and he himself was forced to flee abroad. He presently lives in Munich under police protection.
Nationalism with a nail to Ukrainian coffin
He late gave an crucial interview British portal UnHerd, where he powerfully criticized the Zelensk administration and all Ukrainian nationalism. He believes that this nationalism may have disastrous consequences from the point of view of Ukraine's survival, threatening the dissolution of the state. Ukraine is inhabited by representatives of more than a 100 different nationalities, but immediately after the dissolution of the russian Union in 1991, Kiev's policy began to decision towards converting the country into ‘monoethnic and single-cultural state’.
As Arestovich says, "The main reason for my criticism of what happened in Ukraine in the last year, during the emotional war trauma, is the doctrine of Ukrainian nationalism, which divides the Ukrainian nation into 2 groups: Ukrainian and Russian-speaking, which becomes a group of inferior categories. This concept is highly dangerous, even more dangerous than Russian armed aggression, due to the fact that no of this 80% population of the inferior category wants to die for specified a system".
He then stressed that Ukraine must stay a multi-cultural country and become a federation. It's a reasonable but late diagnosis. For Ukraine it is most likely besides late, and the failure of interest of the West can at most let Kiev to last in the form of a hulled, demilitarized state, which is no longer able to endanger anyone.
Nationalism has done its...
Arestowicz is right about “nationalism” – not only in the Ukrainian edition. He was erstwhile right. Franz GrillparzerWhen he said his way was leading “from humanity, through nationality, to brutality”. This is confirmed by the last 2 100 years of European history. Born in the circles of bourgeoisie and pursuing its financial interests, brought to the fore with the French Revolution, nationalism is liable for the unpleasant past of the sensibilities of any nations against others, which at the same time allowed the concealment of those who benefit from conflicts. Ukraine, whose West imposed hatred against everything Russian (and everything that involves another minorities), is only the last example of nationalistic illusions for which it pays specified a advanced price.
As he rightly points out Aleksandr Dugin in his book Eurasian Mission, "I cannot accept the thought of a nation due to the fact that it is an integral concept of modernity aimed at destroying conventional communities (imperias) and religions, while allowing them to be replaced by artificial pseudo-communities based on individualistic categories. In the meantime, it's a mistake. The thought of a nation is now being destroyed by the same forces that created it in the first phase of modern times. The nations have already done their occupation of destroying all their organic and spiritual identities, so now the capitalists are eliminating only the tool they have utilized so far, moving towards direct globalisation".
Of course, any “nationalists” will not be easy to accept. It seems that beginning your eyes to what will last can only be another large war. But let's not worry about that: NATO is doing everything to make it explode. As long as this alliance has a decisive voice in Europe, Germany and another Europeans will not be able to find themselves.
Karl Richter
Source: https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/the-misguided-path-of-nationalism
