But it's now clear that far-right extremism is not limited to the militias sent to kill ethnic Russians in the east or to the presence of a few neo-Nazi officials who were rewarded for their roles in last February's coup. The fanaticism is present at the center of the Kiev regime, including its deputy foreign minister who speaks casually about a "full-scale war" with nuclear-armed Russia.
In a "normal world," U.S. and European journalists would explain to their readers how insane all this is; how a dispute over the pace for implementing a European association agreement while also maintaining some economic ties with Russia should have been worked out within the Ukrainian political system, that it was not grounds for a U.S.-backed "regime change" last February, let alone a civil war, and surely not nuclear war.
But these are clearly not normal times. To a degree that I have not seen in my 37 years covering Washington, there is a totalitarian quality to the West's current "group think" about Ukraine with virtually no one who "matters" deviating from the black-and-white depiction of good guys in Kiev vs. bad guys in Donetsk and Moscow.
Everyone is expected to march in lockstep behind this conventional wisdom while ignoring the madness of the Kiev regime and the dangers to the planet's future.
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