More than fifty US allies vote against UN resolution to ban the glorification of Nazism. Writes Lucas Leiroz
Nazism increasingly looks like an ally of the West in its war against Russia. More than fifty US allied countries voted against the Russia-submitted resolution at the UN to ban the “glorification” of Nazism and other discriminatory ideologies. In similar votes in the past, only the US and its closest proxy, Ukraine, had voted against such a ban, however, as the conflict in Eastern Europe worsens, the West seems to see Nazism as something “acceptable” in the face of the major goal of attacking Russia in every way possible.
Since 2012, every year the Russian Federation has submitted a resolution to the UN against the glorification of Nazism. If universally approved, the measure would represent a major step towards the eradication of racism and discriminatory ideologies, as countries would adopt harsher surveillance measures to prevent the proliferation of extremism. However, the Western stance has always been hesitant in this regard.
Washington and Kiev habitually vote against the resolution. Ukrainian nationalism, whose historical foundations go back precisely to the Nazism of Stepan Bandera, explains very clearly Kiev’s position in being against banning the glorification of the Nazi ideology. With the 2014 Maidan coup and the establishing of an explicit neo-Nazi regime, this stance in favor of racism and xenophobia was highly endorsed.
Also, in the American case, there are many reasons why the country votes against the resolution. The first one is that Russia is the author of the project and, at the same time, Washington’s biggest geopolitical rival, while Ukraine is an ally country with clear links to neo-Nazism. On the other hand, the US also has a distorted internal “freedom of speech” policy, which allows neo-Nazi groups to legally operate in the country in the name of liberal and democratic values - while hypocritically pro-Russian news outlets are censored.
The other US allies usually abstain from voting, thus avoiding generating frictions with the US and at the same time preserving their images by preventing complicity with Nazism. This is the case for almost all of the European Union and NATO allied nations. Israel, on the other hand, despite ties to the US, votes in favor of the ban, as it has a very significant history of problems with the Nazi ideology.
However, since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, Nazism seems to have ceased to be seen in the West as a nefarious ideology, being increasingly accepted as a kind of “ally” against Moscow. On November 4th, the resolution was voted once again at the UN Assembly and, shockingly, 52 countries voted against the measure, revealing a tendency of connivance with neo-Nazism on a global scale.
Among the countries that took a stand against the anti-Nazi struggle, are included developed democracy, where any extremist ideology should be rejected. Furthermore, nations that fought Nazism in the last century, such as France and the United Kingdom, seem to have simply “forgotten” their history. Germany itself voted against the measure, reversing decades of self-imposed anti-Nazi policy.
The case is a real scandal for Western history, since more than fifty countries are willing to accept Nazism – and apparently the decision was taken only with the aim of attacking Russia even further. However, despite being shameful, the attitude of these countries is not surprising, as collaboration with racist extremism has been a common practice in the West since the beginning of the special military operation against Kiev.
Anti-Russian xenophobia, racial supremacism and ethnic discrimination have been tolerated not only by states but also by social media private companies. For example, Meta – currently banned in Russia as a terrorist organization – reacted to the Russian operation by allowing publications with anti-Russian racial hate content and neo-Nazi symbols to be made freely, as well as death threats against Russian citizens. For the West, faced with the conflict in Ukraine, the correct attitude is to support all forms of anti-Russian opinion, including racism and neo-Nazism.
In fact, the future of this type of posture is alarming. The West will not be able to control the problems it is creating with this tolerance to Nazism. In order to target Russia, Western nations are encouraging extremist and racist thoughts that will soon generate serious problems in the “democratic” societies. Europe, for example, being a great destination for migrants from all over the world, tends to have serious social conflicts if it allows the growth of the glorification of Nazism among its citizens.
