Ukraine’s hyper-nationalists and extremists are supposedly not really there and yet they are strong enough to force the government’s hand Ukraine under the Zelensky regime is a place that is difficult to comprehend. It has a “democracy” but no functioning opposition. It features the usual “vibrant civil society” that every monoglot Western correspondent loves to hang out with in up-to-date coffeeshops, but it has no independent media to speak of. Last but not least, its far right is either