Why Russian President Putin Uses WWII To Justify War With Ukraine

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Feb. 1, 2022. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Tia Goldenberg, AP: EXPLAINER: Why Putin uses WWII to justify war with Ukraine

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Vladimir Putin on Friday again painted his enemies in Ukraine as “neo-Nazis,” even though the country has a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and who heads a Western-backed, democratically elected government.

The Holocaust, World War II and Nazism have been important tools for Putin in his bid to legitimize Russia’s war in Ukraine, but historians see their use as disinformation and a cynical ploy to further the Russian leader’s aims.

Israel has proceeded cautiously, seeking not to jeopardize its security ties with the Kremlin, despite what it considers the sacred memory of the 6 million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust.

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WNU Editor: Reading this AP article reminds me of the arguments that I had with my father during the Cold War. When President Reagan wanted to deploy Pershing nuclear missiles in West Germany in the early 1980s my father was incensed, he wanted/believed that Moscow should launch a first strike against these nuclear targets to wipe them out. And my father was not alone. Almost everyone who experienced first hand the atrocities of the Second World War at the hands of the Germans in the Soviet Union shared that same opinion, not caring at all that such a first strike would escalate into a nuclear war.

Fortunately the better angels persevered, and tensions between the West and the Soviet Union de-escalated. But this Russian mindset to protect Russia at all costs in order to not repeat what the Germans and their allies did to the Soviet Union/Russia in the Second World War is something that most Westerners do not understand or comprehend. And we are now seeing the consequences on what happens if the Kremlin's security concerns are not addressed in Ukraine, as this disastrous war grinds on.

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