THE conflict in Ukraine is in microcosm a continuation of World War II, in that it has exposed the extent to which Western ideologues are willing to collude with open Nazis and fascists in service to the rabid Russophobia that has over generations developed deep cultural roots in the corridors of power west of the Vistula.

It should not be forgotten that right up until Hitler’s annexation of Czechoslovakia, Hitler and Mussolini were viewed by a section of the ruling classes in France, Britain and the United States not as adversaries but as allies in the “noble struggle” being waged by big business and their political bag carriers against the rising tide of communism and its growing traction among their own workers.

In Britain sympathy with the Nazis and their barbarous ideology extended all the way into Buckingham Palace, where Hitler enjoyed the support of King Edward VIII and his US wife, Wallis Simpson, prior to and after the former was forced to abdicate the throne over the fact that Simpson was a divorcee and thereby, following the tradition of the day, deemed unsuitable as a king’s consort.