# Ukrainian Nationalism: A View on Maidan, War and Alliances - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2100102439353368806 - Source account: [@131omelia](https://x.com/131omelia) - Source language: Ukrainian - Target language: English - Duration: 1:55 - Published: 2026-09-16 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/en/ukrainian-nationalism-a-view-on-maidan-war-and-alliances - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/uk/%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%96%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B7%D0%BC-%D0%B2-%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%BD%D1%96-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%B4-%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD-%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%83-%D1%82%D0%B0-%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%8E%D0%B7%D0%B8.md ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/en/ukrainian-nationalism-a-view-on-maidan-war-and-alliances) Weapons not because we're good, as they tell us, help us the West because they want what's best for us, but because we carry out the West's tasks, because we're the only ones willing to carry them out, because we enjoy it, we think killing is fun, and fighting is fun. And they thought, wow, let's go ahead and see what comes of it. [0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/en/ukrainian-nationalism-a-view-on-maidan-war-and-alliances?t=15) That's why this new alliance emerged, the one they're talking about now: Turkey, Poland, Britain, Ukraine. That is, we're the flagship here, because we started a war unlike any there had been for the last 60 years. So, there's potential. [0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/en/ukrainian-nationalism-a-view-on-maidan-war-and-alliances?t=24) So what I'm saying in terms of geopolitics is, these 38 million aren't like even say, 60 million or so Germans or French, they're much stronger, because this is an energized public, and you're all energized. That is, you enjoy it when they say Putin, [0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/en/ukrainian-nationalism-a-view-on-maidan-war-and-alliances?t=38) Yes, when Putin attacks, we're having fun, it’s a blast, or maybe let’s attack him first. [0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/en/ukrainian-nationalism-a-view-on-maidan-war-and-alliances?t=42) This is an entirely different potential. And this is what the situation is about. [0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/en/ukrainian-nationalism-a-view-on-maidan-war-and-alliances?t=45) The Maidan, the Maidan was a victory for nationalist forces. [0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/en/ukrainian-nationalism-a-view-on-maidan-war-and-alliances?t=48) Unquestionably, because it was under our banners, under our slogans. [0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/en/ukrainian-nationalism-a-view-on-maidan-war-and-alliances?t=51) All that European integration and those flags, they somehow disappeared, just like that ridiculous, bald bunch of agents, this Rybachuk, all these clowns who… The Maidan. Nationalist ideas won. [1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/en/ukrainian-nationalism-a-view-on-maidan-war-and-alliances?t=63) Uh, nationalists were, like, the key factor, unquestionably, including at the front. [1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/en/ukrainian-nationalism-a-view-on-maidan-war-and-alliances?t=67) There’s a lot of speculation now. Well, there weren’t many Nazis, like, LGBT people, embassies say, how many Nazis were there? [1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/en/ukrainian-nationalism-a-view-on-maidan-war-and-alliances?t=73) Well, there were ten percent Nazis, hard-core, ideological ones. [1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/en/ukrainian-nationalism-a-view-on-maidan-war-and-alliances?t=75) Well, the point is, only yo… who hasn't been to war and doesn't know how much those ten percent— though there may have even been less, I think, there were maybe as few as eight percent of nationalists, how much, in terms of the effectiveness of their influence, this amounted to an exponentially, endlessly greater effectiveness. [1:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/en/ukrainian-nationalism-a-view-on-maidan-war-and-alliances?t=91) Without those eight percent, effectiveness would have dropped by ninety percent. [1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/en/ukrainian-nationalism-a-view-on-maidan-war-and-alliances?t=95) So it's not about the num-- number. Just like on the Maidan. [1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/en/ukrainian-nationalism-a-view-on-maidan-war-and-alliances?t=98) Now the leftists have started, the Böll foundations and so on, to count them up. [1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/en/ukrainian-nationalism-a-view-on-maidan-war-and-alliances?t=102) Well, there were nationalists there, yeah, they were influential. [1:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/en/ukrainian-nationalism-a-view-on-maidan-war-and-alliances?t=106) What do you mean, influential? Without nationalists, it all would have gone straight to a gay parade. [1:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EroKtsUiGYJH/en/ukrainian-nationalism-a-view-on-maidan-war-and-alliances?t=111) There. And accordingly, there is-