Briahna Joy Gray has the podcast WAR IN UKRAINE. What – If Anything – Should the US Do? BJG Interviews Bernie’s Foreign Policy Wonk.

This week, Briahna Joy Gray spoke to Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy advisor, Matt Duss, about the escalating conflict in Ukraine.

Toward the end of this interview Matt Duss admits that his family background is from Ukrainian speaking Ukraines. It would have been very helpful if he had said that earlier. He thinks that our focus on Nazi elements in Ukraine is over done. As someone from a Jewish family, I disagree. Perhaps our family backgrounds have something to do with this disparity. In fact the situation of Jews in the Ukraine, never entered the discussion.

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy “is a Ukrainian politician, actor, and comedian who is the sixth and current president of Ukraine, serving since May 2019”.

Zelenskyy grew up in Kryvyi Rih, a Russian-speaking region in south-east Ukraine.
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Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy was born to Jewish parents.

I wonder what Zelenskyy feels about the Nazi elements of Ukrainian politics. I wonder if the Russian “invasion” actually makes him feel more secure about speaking out against the Nazi influence in the Ukraine.