What follows is an interview with Ukrainian journalist and TV host Diana Panchenko. Panchenko graduated from Kiev Polytechnic Institute with a degree in publishing and editing, and then from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev with a law degree. She has been nominated for the UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize for her contributions to the cause of press freedom. Conversely, sanctions, including asset confiscation, have been imposed against Panchenko by President Volodymyr Zelensky. Several criminal cases have also been initiated against her, including a charge of treason for reporting honestly on the devastation inside Ukraine. For this, she faces a potential life sentence. This interview was conducted and translated by Sascha Roßmüller for the German print magazine Deutsche Stimme. An English version was edited for length by James Edwards for the American Free Press.

American Free Press: How have developments since 2022 impacted your career as a Ukrainian journalist?

Diana Panchenko: Being a journalist in Ukraine is a thankless job. Over my 15 years in the trade, I’ve been assaulted three times. Every day, I receive threats. [Volodymyr] Zelensky has imposed personal sanctions on me. I have a criminal trial launched against me and a life sentence is in the cards—all for a post on “Telegram” saying we need peace talks to save Ukraine. This is not a joke; it’s all in my case files.

When I hear them say Ukraine is fighting for its freedom in this war, it hurts. I know there’s no freedom there. My shows used to have the highest ratings of all Ukrainian news media. I won a Journalist of the Year award. When the war began, I was in Kiev. I’ve been to the demarcation line. I know what I’m talking about.

But let’s start from the beginning. During the Maidan events of 2014, I was a reporter. Every day, I went there. I saw the mob throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at the police. I saw people getting paid for provocations. You won’t hear this in the Western media.

After the success of the Maidan “uprising,” the government introduced strict censorship. The minority took over the majority. It was a death sentence to say that you were against Maidan and didn’t support the coup. Several high-profile journalist assassinations happened at that time in Ukraine, including the murder of Oles Buzina.

After Maidan, I worked at the News One channel. Our stance was honest and unbiased. We covered Zelensky and his team’s corruption. We provided a platform to the proponents of the Minsk Agreements and Ukraine’s neutral status. We advocated for peace.

For that, in February 2021, Zelensky closed our channel and two others for violation of the Ukrainian constitution. This happened a year before the war, another indication that back then, he already knew what was coming and tried to cancel all alternative information sources. I was immediately declared a public enemy, and the hunt started. There were several assaults against me.

Since the war began, the dictatorship in Ukraine has hardened. Now, all TV channels have been closed. There’s only one left, and it’s under Zelensky’s control. All popular journalists received visits from members of the SBU, Ukraine’s secret intelligence service. They threatened the safety of my loved ones.

Any criticism of the authorities is considered treason. Since the war began, the SBU has initiated over 2,500 criminal trials on political charges. Some of my colleagues have gone missing. Others were tortured. Many of them are in jail. Only thanks to my high profile did I survive and manage to leave the country and to stay in journalism. I kept my moral integrity.

For eight years, the government in Ukraine has manipulated public opinion claiming it planned to return Donbass. But nobody was going to do that. So I went to Donbass to talk to people there and made a documentary about that visit.

Today, my YouTube channel is the most popular Russian-language political channel. I have more than 70 million monthly views. But the government is doing everything in its power to cancel me.

AFP: Before 2014, Ukrainians and Russians were mostly considered as brethren people, not enemies. Due to the particular differences between Western and Eastern Ukraine, do you think the escalating development could have been avoided if Ukraine had been a less centralist and rather a more federalist structured state? Or did overwhelming non-governmental organizations influence the launch an inescapable direction of the development?

Panchenko: I had to write a book to answer that question. It’s called The Inevitable. It’s been translated into English and will soon be available in Europe. The Russia-Ukraine war was not a coincidence. They were preparing to sacrifice Ukraine—not just for the past 30 years, but since the end of World War II.

To understand where Ukraine’s path could lead, just take a look at the map. We only had to stay neutral—not pro-Russian, just neutral and away from trouble. Instead, NATO was building its infrastructure in Ukraine. There’s no secret about it. It’s all out there. They were building bases, bringing instructors, and portraying Russia as the enemy.

It all started even before 1991. Even before World War II ended, UK and U.S. intelligence services were working with Ukrainian nationalists against the USSR. In the spring of 1945, the Galicia Division signed an agreement with British intelligence.

In 1951, the U.S. military command and OUN, a nationalist organization, held talks about inciting an uprising on the Soviet home front.

Ukrainian nationalists have been a traditional tool for the West to undermine the USSR. In 1950, Ukrainian nationalist ideologue Petr Poltava published an article titled “Preparation for World War III and the Objectives of the Ukrainian People.”

This might sound pretentious, but mark my words: Ukraine’s hostility toward Russia is enough to ignite a war in Eurasia by definition. I don’t think the world truly understands that yet.

Ukraine had two options. Option one: neutrality and good relations with Russia. Option two: a buffer zone and war—war to the last man. Ukraine chose the second. Or rather, it was chosen for Ukraine. I’m not going to list the funds the West spent to turn Ukrainians against Russians. Enough has been said on this topic already.

But, as someone as old as modern Ukraine, I have to say that we are part of a grand experiment. Through propaganda, they turned kin people into enemies. This all starts in school. In literature and history classes, they keep saying Russia is the cause of all our problems. All who called for peace and warned us have been canceled, killed, or jailed.

The example of my homeland, Ukraine, teaches us that war always catches us by surprise. One day, you wake up to sirens and your life will never be the same.

AFP: How do you assess the Minsk Agreements?

Panchenko: Panchenko: Even if we don’t question whether anyone actually intended to implement them, it’s a matter of Ukraine and NATO. It’s a matter of life and death for Russia; a matter of turning Ukraine into an “anti-Russia.” Truth be told, the Ukrainian government never cared about Donbass or Crimea, for that matter. Neither Zelensky nor Petro Poroshenko [Ukraine’s fifth president, 2014-2019] wanted to reclaim the unloyal population that would never vote for them. The Minsk Agreements allowed Ukraine to reclaim Donbass, and the government had a chance to do what it took to return it. But they didn’t want to. The issue with modern Ukraine is that we’re not allowed to call a spade a spade.

Everybody knew that Donbass and Crimea were gone for good, yet they still bombarded the audience with propaganda slogans, and continue to do so, even now. Neither Zelensky nor the people believe in returning to the 1991 borders, but it’s forbidden to say it out loud.

Recently, Ukrainian influencers recorded a call for negotiations. And the SBU summoned them for interrogation. It’s hard to build a state on lies. Ukraine doesn’t even have a political language to describe the reality around us.

AFP: What is your perspective on Zelensky personally, his regime in general, and the overall situation in Ukraine regarding the accusation of corruption?

Panchenko: I know Zelensky a little. I know his team. He’s addicted to glory and hates criticism, first and foremost. This isn’t necessarily bad for an actor, but absolutely unacceptable for a politician, let alone a president.

Presently, Zelensky isn’t making any decisions. The U.S. State Department is making them for him, with Jake Sullivan as his supervisor. In Ukraine, power is executed by the head of the President’s Office Andrei Yermak. And my sources say he’s ready to dump Zelensky.

Ukraine has always been fertile soil for corruption, and today, it’s in full bloom. A few weeks before the war, ex- Zelensky advisor Sergei Shefir was moving enormous sums of cash out of the country and transferring funds to offshore accounts.

Ex-Minister of Defense Reznikov transferred $1 billion to offshore accounts. But that is just a drop in the ocean. Recently, I released a video on “X” about some embezzlement cases known to the media. The total amount in these cases reaches $60 billion. That’s why people aren’t eager to go to the frontlines. They don’t want to die only to make Zelensky and his team even richer. Does the White House know this? Certainly. They’re covering up for each other.

For years, the West has been hooking Ukrainian elites. Corrupted officials are easier to control; it’s leverage. When the United States decides to dump Zelensky, you’ll see it immediately by the number of reports about his corruption in the global media.

AFP: The ongoing geopolitical proxy war in Ukraine is a terrible meat grinder where young men are being sacrificed for primarily non-continental interests. What‘s your knowledge regarding the failed peace negotiations back in March 2022?

Panchenko: First of all, this is a senseless war. At each stage, Ukraine could’ve stopped it. And the longer it rages, the more Ukraine loses. I met Zelensky’s advisor after the Istanbul talks. He was there and he boasted, “We played the Russians.” He said the Ukrainian army was going to enter Crimea, there would be a revolt in Russia, and they’d overthrow President Putin.

So I asked: “OK, but what if Russia retaliates with nuclear weapons?”

“Well, 60,000 people will die, but that’s the price we’re willing to pay,” he replied.

Zelensky’s entire “winning tactic” was based on a coup in Russia. Pretty short-sighted if you ask me, because Russians would rather go to the draft office than to protest in the streets.

Zelensky’s reputation in the first year of the war hung by the myth that Ukraine “repelled the attack on Kiev.” Except there was no fighting for Kiev. It’s Zelensky’s propaganda myth that presented Russia’s pullback as part of negotiations as a victory.

Not a single Russian official publicly mentioned plans to take Kiev. Instead, early on, Russia gained access to the Azov Sea in Mariupol and established a strategically important land corridor to Crimea.

AFP: Of what relevance is the question of who is sitting in the White House?

Panchenko: I’d be happy to be mistaken, but I think it’s a big over simplification to say Donald Trump is going to stop the war. Ukrainian politicians don’t shy away from brazen criticism and even insults toward him. My sources indicate Zelensky’s team has compromising information on both contenders. The release will depend on the political situation. This is going to be the third time Ukraine has interfered in the U.S. elections.

AFP: Are you concerned the increasing tension in multiple areas could escalate into a larger catastrophe, or do you also see some developments that could potentially contain the dangerous trends?

Panchenko: I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I don’t see any prospects for de-escalation. We’re living in a world where you cannot tell the truth. To put it simply—the warmongers won’t let it happen. The world is ruled by an aggressive minority. They oppress, cancel, or kill anyone who disagrees, and cover their crimes with nice-sounding progressive ideas and “democracy.” The Maidan events have basically spread across the world.

Three centuries ago, in his philosophical essay “Toward Perpetual Peace,” Immanuel Kant declared that humanity could achieve universal peace either through universal enlightenment or a devastating conflict. Sadly, it looks like only something terrible will make people give it some thought. That means more people are going to die.

I’d love to be wrong, but it looks like the next phase of escalation is an all-out war between Russia and NATO—in both Ukraine and throughout Europe.

AFP: What is the future of Ukraine and Europe?

Panchenko: Ukraine’s sovereignty is lost. Its economy has halted. The nation is living on a credit line. Ten million people have left, and more will follow the moment Ukraine opens its borders. Society is divided and full of hatred, which is now the official policy. The United Nations forecasts Ukraine’s population to shrink to 15 million by 2100. According to my sources, it’s already around just 20 million. In 1991, it was 52 million. So, who’s launched a genocide of Ukrainians, the Russians or our present government? Zelensky’s team is holding our people hostage and turning down any negotiation proposals, so the war will continue. And Ukraine will keep losing ground.

It pains me to say this, but today, Europe is following in Ukraine’s footsteps by making decisions that hurt its people.

AFP: How about your future?

Panchenko: My main goal is to help people understand one another. The root of all evil is ignorance. For years, they’ve been building a wall between Russians and Ukrainians, so they know close to nothing about each other. Now they’re building a similar wall between Russia and Europe. Today, I’m focusing on telling people the truth about the war in Ukraine to prevent an even bigger conflict. I’m publishing videos on my “X” account. My book will soon be published in Europe and the United States, and I’m also planning to adapt it for the screen.

I pray for peace for all of us, and hope that reason will prevail.

James Edwards is the outspoken host of The Political Cesspool, one of America’s most potent talk radio programs. He has made numerous television guest appearances and his work as a political commentator over the past two decades has been the subject of articles in hundreds of print publications and media broadcasts around the world.

Jews deserve our respect for at least one thing: no other people, no other race, has survived and dominated so successfully. Whether rich or poor, stupid or smart, believers or atheists, when things turn sour, the children of Abraham organize, defend their interests, and destroy those who threaten their racial vitality.

You will not succeed in stigmatizing them because they unabashedly claim to belong to the Jewish race. Nor will you succeed in demonizing them because they insist on having a country where they can live among themselves as they please. We racially inhibited Whites should follow their example: it’s not a terrible crime to act in the interests of your race.

Oddly, no one calls them “racist” because in their Promised Land, race mixing is verboten. No one calls them “homophobic” or “sexist” because the Israeli Supreme Court has banned pornography (except in Palestinian areas), gay marriage and adoption, and restricted abortion. No one calls them “xenophobes” because only full-blooded Jews have the right to immigrate freely to Israel. No one calls them “Nazis” because Arabs (20%), Christians, and other minorities do not have the same rights as the majority.[1] No one calls them “macho” because it is the men, not the women, as in the West, who wear the pants. No one calls them “evil supremacists” because they are all armed to the teeth and are guilt-free practitioners of genocide. Finally, no one calls them “fascists” because their country practices economic nationalism and refuses to sign the UN Migration Compact on the basis that it would undermine their sovereignty.[2]^,[3]

In Israel, anti-immigration protesters don’t mind chanting in the streets, “niggers go home, niggers to Africa.” Such a lack of inclusion here in the US and elsewhere in the West would be severely punished, to say the least. But as Israel’s former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked says in the February 13, 2018, issue of Haaretz: “if not for the fence erected some years ago on the Egyptian border, ‘We would be seeing here a kind of creeping conquest from Africa.’ […] There is place to maintain the Jewish majority even if it violates rights.” … Israel is a Jewish state. It isn’t a state of all its nations. That is, equal rights to all citizens but not equal national rights.” … [T]he argument over whether it’s all right for a Jewish community to, by definition, be only Jewish, I want the answer to be ‘yes, it’s all right.’”

Thus, Israel not only refuses to welcome the illegals (refugees) who invade it, but incarcerates them in concentration camps, before deporting them to their countries of origin, or even to Western countries with the blessing of their leaders and the media, which hides this astonishing reality from us while making us poor Westerners believe that nationalism is a sin and that diversity will take us straight to heaven without going to purgatory.

Beware, the men and women of the Jewish race are not choirboys; the rugged individualism, pathological empathy, and suicidal altruism that plague our race are foreign to their culture; at the slightest misstep, the soldiers of the Israeli Defense Force will slaughter, assassinate, torture, or rape anything that moves, without the slightest hesitation.

Ultimately, unabashed love of their race is one of the core strengths of the chosen people. They are Jewish and proud of it … deep in their DNA. They know, without a doubt, that the unity, strength and cohesion of a nation are rooted in its racial and ethnic homogeneity; they know for sure that racial and cultural diversity in the same country is not a strength, but a Trojan horse used to divide, fragment, and weaken those who succumb to its charms; they know, finally, that the ethno-nation is the only model of society capable of ensuring the security and happiness of men.

True democracy is only possible, said Aristotle, in ethnically homogeneous societies. Despots and tyrants have always ruled over highly fragmented societies such as today’s Western societies. A multi-ethnic society is therefore necessarily chaotic, because it is totally devoid of philia, a fundamental concept defined by Aristotle as a brotherhood of identity rooted in the blood and flesh of citizens. Thus, ethnic chaos prevents any expression of philia, the indispensable condition for the cohesion and sovereignty of a people.

To put it in a way that the self-righteous refuse to hear, race is indeed a biological reality, supported scientifically by numerous high-level genetic studies.[4] While we are theoretically equal before the law, we are not equal in talent, intelligence, merit, beauty, and physical ability. Women and men do not have the same capabilities. Racial, ethnic, sexual, individual, and cultural egalitarianism doesn’t exist in the real world. Those who claim otherwise are leading us to racial suicide.

In this respect, Israel and the Jews are leading the way. In order to protect the purity of the race, the Jewish state has the strictest race-mixing laws in the world. Israel does not allow civil marriage, even though a recent poll found the Zionist state to be the least religious country in the world. Marriages involving Jews can only take place in accordance with Jewish religious law and with the approval of the country’s rabbinical courts. Many Israelis considered Jewish by the civil authorities are not considered Jewish by the Chief Rabbinate. These “fake” Jews are not permitted to marry full-blooded “real” Jews.[5]

A Jewish person who wishes to marry a person who may be racially impure must submit that person to a DNA test in order to prove that he or she is a member of the Jewish race, thereby confirming that Jews are a race as Hitler correctly thought.[6]^,[7] Converts to Judaism such as Ethiopian Jews are banned from marriage. Moreover, 89% of Jews would refuse to allow their child to marry a gentile, and up to 97% if the partner in question is Muslim. While miscegenation is rare, the state nevertheless funds any initiative to prevent Jews from dating non-Jews. Lehava, an organization composed of Jewish men, patrols the most cosmopolitan neighborhoods in Jerusalem and physically attacks racially mixed couples.[8]

Al Jazeera journalist writes the following on Israel’s Nation-State Law:

More than 80 years after Nazi Germany enacted what came to be known as the Nuremberg Race Laws, Israeli legislators voted in favor of the so-called nation-state law. By doing so, they essentially codified “Jewish supremacy” into law, which effectively mirrors the Nazi-era legislation of ethno-religious stratification of German citizenry.

Israel’s “nation-state law” stipulates in its first clause that “actualization of the right of national self-determination in the state of Israel is unique to the Jewish people.”

In similar fashion, the first of the Nuremberg Laws, the Reich Citizenship Law, deemed citizenship a privilege exclusive to people of “German or kindred blood.” The remainder were classed as state subjects, without citizenship rights.

This brings us to the second Nuremberg Law: Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour, which sought to prevent mixing of Aryan blood, dubbed “race defilement.”

The new “nation-state law” may not mention “race defilement” but in Israel, anti-miscegenation laws are already in place, masquerading as legislation meant to protect traditional values. Only religious officials can perform marriage, and the Orthodox rabbinate has exclusive purview over Jewish marriages. The law strictly forbids interreligious marriage within Israel.[9]

After reading the above, the reader will want to know why Jews outside of Israel are at the forefront of replacement immigration, multiculturalism, and forced race-mixing by deceitful propaganda?

Why are Jews living in Western countries constantly inflaming Blacks and minorities against Whites?

Why are Jews in the diaspora constantly promoting egalitarianism, feminism, pornography, race denial, homosexuality, gay marriage, abortion, anti-gun laws, and open borders?

Why are all leading Western politicians and media completely supportive of ethnic nationalism in Israel and totally against it in their own country?

By UN standards on human rights, Israel should be invaded by NATO for humanitarian reasons. Don’t Jews in Israel practice racism, apartheid, suprematism, terrorism, torture, rape, ethnic cleansing of the local indigenous population of Arabs and Christians, as well as slavery.[10]

Why this double standard?

Is it because Jews are the real leaders of the West?

Is it because Western leaders are mere puppets of the Jews?

In the end, is it because Jews are destined to rule over humanity as Mark Kogan states in the following tweet?

To all you racists and anti-Semites out there, consider this.

In 50 or 100 years, Israel will still be Jewish.

Your countries will NOT, however. Europe will be browner and blacker, and so will Asia. Chances are your grandchildren will not look like you and if they do, your great-grandchildren won’t. My descendants will rule your descendants who will learn to hate their own heritage and there is NOTHING you can do about it.

For Mark Kogan’s dream of a Jewish dominated world to come true, Jews must absolutely nip White ethnonationalism in the bud, in all White countries, Whites being their major obstacle. Any resurgence of nationalism and race consciousness, which they themselves shamelessly practice, is out of the question in countries they want to subjugate, as explained in the following quote taken from the great Hungarian journalist Louis Marschalko, a long forgotten credible individual whose views should be taken seriously:

The concept of racial superiority with its religious and political cults are not Hitler’s inventions. The Jewish laws of race protection and Jewish tribal nationalism go back to the time of Moses in the Old Testament (Pentateuch). These laws have been in existence for 3000 to 4000 years. […] During the reign of the “Führer” Moses, everything was the same in the totalitarian regime of Jahve. The laws for the protection of the Jewish race and Jewish nationalism have survived to this day. They are not Hitler’s inventions. Hitler, Goebbels and Rosenberg only used the weapons of the Jewish community against the Jewish community. […] The Jews hanged themselves at Nuremberg. The laws of racial segregation and superiority were first published in the books of the prophets Ezra and Nehemiah and not in the Nuremberg Race Protection Act. The first concentration camps were established not by Himmler, but by King Solomon. The motto of total extermination and annihilation of the defeated enemy first appeared in the orders of Moses, the first “Führer” in history. [Hitler had only proclaimed that the Germans were superior to the Jews. Moses went much further by announcing that the Jews were of direct divine origin and God’s chosen people, and therefore sacred] The Jewish laws regard racial purity as a commandment of the highest importance. The consciousness of being the master race burns in the Old Testament with the fierce glow of the most fanatical nationalism of all time. The first law of Moses concerns the preservation of racial purity. […] The Jews feel entitled to subjugate foreigners and to treat as slaves all those who fall into their power. The plans for the Soviet torture chambers and the forced labour camps of the Kaganovich empire were conceived in the land of Solomon. … The prophet Samuel tells us how in the ecstatic atmosphere of victory, the most humanitarian race in the world treated its vanquished enemies: “He brought out the people who were there (in the Ammonite city of Rabba) and put them under saws and harrows, and iron axes, and put them through the brick kiln, and so he did to all the cities of the children of Ammon” (II Samuel XII, 31). The first concentration camp, the first gas chamber (brick oven) in the world was in the land of Israel. And the first ghetto was established in Jerusalem, not in Europe.

This Jewish tribal nationalism never died out. It continued to kill neighbouring peoples and races. Every time it was defeated, it resurfaced. The Jewish race had suffered, but after the liberation from Babylon, it continued to build the New Jerusalem with the vehemence of a revived nationalism. The Jewish race had suffered but was waiting for the new Messiah, the Jewish nationalist liberator and political leader, the new Führer, who would place world power over all nations in the hands of the Jewish community. The Jewish people never abandoned this grand national dream. At the Zionist Congress of 1897 in Basel, Dr. Mandelstein, professor at the University of Kiev, in his opening address to the conference, stated categorically that: “The Jews will use all their influence and power to prevent the rise and prosperity of all other nations and are resolved to adhere to their historic hopes, i.e., the conquest of world power” (Le Temps, September 3, 1897). German National Socialism was ready and willing to cooperate with other peoples. It was hostile to only one race: Jewry. Whereas Nazism of the Jewish type is hostile to all races and all non-Jewish social and ruling castes.[11]

 

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[1] Philip Weiss, “This Is What ‘Jewish Democracy’ Looks Like,” Mondoweiss, News about Palestine, Israel & the United States, March 26, 2021.

[2] Norman Dacey, “Democracy” in Israel, Noontide Press, 1976.

[3] Kerry R. Bolton, The Tyranny of Human Rights: From Jacobinism to the United Nations, Antelope Hill Publishing, 2022, p. 326.

[4] David Reich, Who We Are and How We Got There. Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past, Pantheon, 2018. See also David Reich, “How genetics is changing our understanding of ‘Race,’ The New York Times, March 28, 2018.

[5] Mark Weber, “Jews: A Religious Community, a People, or a Race?” The Journal of Historical Review, March-April 2000, vol. -19, N^o. 2, p. 63.

[6] Ibid.

[7] Jim Goad, “The Ultimate JQ: Religion or Race?” Taki’s Magazine, June 17, 2019.

[8] Eric Striker, “New Documentary Sheds Light on Israel’s Strict Prohibitions on Interracial Marriage,” National Justice, December 9, 2020.

[9] Susan Abulhawa, “Israel’s ‘Nation-State Law’ Parallels the Nazi Nuremberg Laws,” Al Jazeera, July 26, 2018.

[10] Kerry R. Bolton, book cited, p. 326.

[11] Louis Marschalko, The World Conquerors: The Real War Criminals, Britons Publishing Society, 1958, pp. 20-21.