Jaw-dropper.
KR: Samantha Power, US ambassador to the UN, arrived in Kiev for a two day visit. She charmed the audience at her appearance with the Ukrainian ultra-nationalist slogan "Ukraine above all" (above what? - family, neighbors, decency, Russians? Ukraine certainly lives by its slogans), which was modeled after the Third Reich's "Germany uber alles!"
TSN video transcript:
A graduate of Harvard and Yale, and a Pulitzer prize winner, Samantha Power is called in the US "a humanitarian hawk of president Obama and a voice of conscience of the USA".
Samantha Power: "Ukraine above all! You have not been broken. All who where against you on Maidan had lost. You did not give up after Crimea's occupation. You have persevered. The will to fight against a foreign aggressor is in your DNA."
This person is representing the United States?
She can't possibly fail to understand what she just said and the message it sends to the world about the United States.
This would be bad enough it Ukraine were not filled with neo-Nazis. But it is. Congress just said so.
If she tries to walk it back, she'll look like a fool. If she doesn't, it will stand as a message about the America of Barack Obama.
Fort Russ
Samantha Power in Kiev: "Ukraine - above all!" (interview, video)
Kristina Rus
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