March 17, 2025 (EIRNS)—Former State Department advisor James Carden ("the only writer in America on the mastheads of the American Conservative and The Nation") issued a warning on his blog, the Realist Review, on March 13, that threats from Ukrainian “nationalists” against President Trump must be taken seriously. EIR concurs.
Carden cited the case of Alexander Motyl, a Ukrainian-American professor teaching in Newark, who, in the past month, “has published a number of pieces in The Hill which might fairly be, given the two assassination attempts on Trump during the 2024 campaign, characterized as incitement.” One of those pieces is sufficient for the the purposes of this note: Motyl’s Feb. 21 rant in The Hill, titled “Trump’s Revolution Will End Badly—for Himself, and for America”.
Motyl, spitting bile at the new heads of National Intelligence and the FBI, Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel, forecasts masses will be in the streets; guerrilla operations will begin, like “the Weather Underground, the Black Panthers … and like the Red Army Faction in Germany and the Red Brigades in Italy” (the latter two, take note, being credited with assassinating government leaders—ed.); “expect bank robberies and assassinations, campuses in turmoil”; “foreign terrorists” coming in. He threatens that “a repetition of 9/11 is no longer unthinkable.” Under such conditions of chaos and disorder, he hopes that a “palace coup … could rid the country of an illegitimate leader and usher in a transition … call it a Thermidor—that Vance would be unlikely to survive politically.”
Wild, but Carden knows what Motyl represents. “Galician nationalists specialize in these incitements to violence—as some of us who have been repeatedly placed on their enemies lists know only too well,” he wrote, naming the Ukrainian hitlists with which regular EIR News readers are familiar, since Schiller Institute leaders including Helga Zepp-LaRouche are also on those target lists: Myrotvorets, Molfar (where Carden and J.D. Vance are targeted) and Texty (which fingered President Trump, Vance, Tulsi Gabbard among the over 320 Americans targeted).
“Trump’s determination to force Zelenskyy to the negotiating table could well put him in the crosshairs of Ukrainian nationalists—like those in the diaspora such as Motyl and those the Biden administration spent the last three years arming to the teeth,” Carden warns. He adds that Col. Douglas Macgregor (ret.) recently issued a similar warning. Speaking of Ukrainian ultra nationalists, Macgregor told Tucker Carlson in a recent interview, “I would be very worried about our President. I think the President is very much at risk, these people seem to have no sense of limitation—they’re capable of anything, I hope the Secret Service is on its toes.”
EIR raises the question: Is Motyl still tied to unsavory networks in the CIA? We ask for a reason.
The “nationalists” under discussion are the political descendants of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists-Bandera (OUN(b)), headed by Stepan Bandera, who in the 1940s fought (and notoriously committed mass-murder) in the 14th Galician Division of Hitler’s Waffen SS. When Hitler was defeated, Britain’s MI6, together with the Dulles brothers’ networks in the CIA, took over control of the OUN(b) leadership, using them to continue their war against the Soviet Union/Russia by more covert means.
This history is recounted in an EIR 2014 dossier, British Imperial Project in Ukraine: Violent Coup, Fascist Axioms, Neo-Nazis, in which Motyl is named as one of three graduates of “the Prolog kindergarten” who are still among the most influential Ukraine “experts” in the United States today. The CIA ran its side of this network inside the United States under the cover of the Prolog Research Corporation, which the CIA funded for decades. EIR’s overview of this network and identification of Motyl’s role in it is included in a short piece accompanying the 2014 dossier, Heirs of the OUN, Grandchildren of MI6.
