[Updated on 13 May 2026, 1:58 AM ET.]

Empire and its agencies engage in perpetual Supreme International criminality and continued impunity beneath the subterfuge of “plausible deniability.”

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During the war on Syria, plausible deniability was fabricated using the false dichotomy of “moderate terrorists” and so-called extremist terrorists. “Moderates” existed in name only, but in using this construct, Western propagandists created the false perception that U.S. Empire and its allies were somehow a benevolent force. Beneath the Big Lie, however, Empire supported all of the terrorists in Syria, including ISIS and al Qaeda, especially through Operation Timber Sycamore. In fact, once plausible deniability was established, terrorists on “terror lists” received even more support.(1)

Even when Empire successfully “changed the Regime” and installed a founder of al Qaeda/al Nusra front in Syria, (al-Jolani, now named al-Sharaa), the deception somehow survived. The fact that he was on a “terror list”, and that there was a bounty on his head, (even as the West supported and protected him all along) provided a convoluted “plausible deniability”.(2) The truth remains largely censored and whitewashed.

Whereas Empire seeks to conceal its support for al Qaeda and ISIS in Syria (and beyond), its challenge in Ukraine is to conceal its support for Nazism and genocidal ethnic nationalism.

Just as al-Jolani’s terrorist designation and the bounty on his head served to protect him by providing plausible deniability to his CIA/MI6 handlers and protectors, Nazism is concealed and protected by Ukrainian legislation that condemns it, even as it falsely conflates Nazism with communism.(3)

Prior to the Russian military intervention in 2022 and during the time period of the Maidan “Color” Revolution and the violent nazi-spearheaded coup against the elected Yanukovch government(4) Western media reported on the fact of Nazism in parts of Ukraine.

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But the truth soon became inconvenient and so the Western “mighty Wurlitzer” once again reprised its role as the war propaganda wing for Western “elites.”

Western support for the Azov Battalion in particular(5), and Nazism in general, in Ukraine, will continue to be only a whisper as long as the West’s criminal imperialism and propaganda apparatus remain ascendant.

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Mark Taliano is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) and the author of Voices from Syria, Global Research Publishers, 2017. He writes on his website where this article was originally published.

Notes

(1) Mark Taliano, “Terror Lists and Terrorists” Global Research, 23 September, 2025. (Terror Lists and Terrorists. Mark Taliano – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization) Accessed 11 May, 2026.

(2) “ ‘We got Mike Pompeo to issue a waiver to allow us to give aid to HTS’ / James Jeffrey.” David Miller on X, com, 15 May 2025. (“We got Mike Pompeo to issue a waiver to allow us to give aid to HTS” / James Jeffrey – Mark Taliano) Accessed 11 May, 2026.

(3) The law “On the Condemnation of the Communist and National Socialist (Nazi) Regimes, and Prohibition of Propaganda of their Symbols” 02 March, 2020. (The law “On the Condemnation of the Communist and National Socialist (Nazi) Regimes, and Prohibition of Propaganda of their Symbols”. Accessed 05 May, 2026.

(4) Robert Parry, “When Western Media Saw Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis” Orinoco Tribune, 10 August, 2014. (When Western Media Saw Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis – Orinoco Tribune) Accessed 11 May, 2026.

(5) The Patrick Henningsen Show/ TNT Live, Interview with Dan Kovalik, voicesfromsyria.com, “U.S. Openly Supports Nazism in Ukraine” 19 June, 2024. (S. Openly Supports Nazism in Ukraine – Mark Taliano) Accessed 11 May, 2026.

See also: Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, “Ukraine’s “Neo-Nazi Summer Camp”. Military Training for Young Children, Para-military Recruits” Global Research, 09 August 2025, 27 December, 2025. (Ukraine’s “Neo-Nazi Summer Camp”. Military Training for Young Children, Para-military Recruits – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization) Accessed 11 May, 2026

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