This article also brings us up to date re Trump's junking treaties with Russia that helped prevent nuclear war and Biden's provocative continuation of Trump's policies. If there is any doubt who is responsible for the war in Ukraine this article should clear it up. (Hint-- the same team that brought us the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam War, Iraq invasion and defeat in Afghanistan. The names have changed but the games the same.) By the way, the nasty truth is now this-- if we want peace in Europe and Ukraine the Russian annexations are going to have to stand. This is not something the Russians can backdown on and if the US forces this issue we will have a war with Russia. All bets will be off. The US, by the way, hasn't really won a fighting war since the defeat of Japan (the Russians defeated Hitler).
Thursday, December 29, 2022
Friday, December 09, 2022
Thursday, December 08, 2022
Why The War Started
‘’Merkel knew that inviting Ukraine into NATO would trigger a Russian military response. Rather than reject this possibility altogether, Merkel instead pursued a policy designed to make Ukraine capable of withstanding such an attack. War, it seems, was the only option Russia’s opponents had ever considered."
This article shows that the US and NATO were well aware that NATO membership for Ukraine would result in a Russian military intervention. Especially since from 2014 (the date of the coup and the attack on the Donbas resistance) Russia was under notice that Ukraine was going to become part of the anti-Russian NATO military alliance.
For 8 yers the West then built up the Ukrainian military to withstand an invasion while telling the Russians we supported the Minsk agreements for a peaceful resolution. Biden was able to "predict" a Russian invasion because the US knew when Ukraine finally junked the Minsk agreements the Russians would realize they had been duped and a military response would follow.
This is indeed a proxy war solicited by US imperialism -- it is a rehearsal to test out the abilities not only of the Russians but of their allies to support them -- just as Hiroshima was actually a message for Stalin, this US war in Ukraine is a message to Xi -- Taiwan is de facto a US ally. It's not only that, its other goal is to solidify current Western world dominance which the Russians were threatening by working with China and others to create a multipolar world system to replace the unipower US dominance.
We don't know how this war will turn out but we do know which side represents the most vicious, brutal and war mongering international ruling class since the fall of the Axis powers in WWII. We need a peace movement that will demand the US back off and bring this war to an end and and realize that peace is impossible without recognizing the legitimate demands and rights of Russia in this dispute.
We, as Americans, must never forget what US foreign policy represents in the world-- Martin Luther King told us, and was killed for it, it was that "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today" is the US government-- this has not changed since the days of Vietnam-- all the wars and violent overhrows since those days, including Ukraine today, can be traced back to the plans and policies of the US government. We may have defeated Trump for the nonce, but Biden is just as great a threat in the long run both to our working class and to the peace of the world.
Saturday, December 03, 2022
Which Side Are You On
This is an English version of a Spanish article from El Manifesto. Marxists should be clear what this war is about. It is a rehearsal by the US and the international monopoly capitalist class that rules the West and most of what Biden and the US imperialists call the "free world"-- the part of the globe under the control of the imperialists, for the real war that the dynamics of the capitalist system must wage against China. It is analogous to the Spanish civil war of the 1930s as a rehearsal for WW II.
The Russian capitalists have been excluded from the Western club because they demanded an equal partnership with the US and NATO. This would have made NATO irrelevant and destroyed the ideological justification for the US military budget and the billions in profits it extracts from the world. Russia has been forced into a de facto alliance with China and other powers hostile to the present US imperialist world domination. Some of these powers are unsavory from a Marxist perspective with respect to their internal regimes, yet they objectively play a positive role in the struggle against the number one enemy of peace and the number one exploiter of the world's working people-- US imperialism. As far as the international situation is concerned it doesn't matter which group of fascists control the US military (the soft ones represented by the Democratic leadership, or the hard ones run by the GOP leadership). Domestically the illusions of bourgeois democracy are allowed to play by the soft fascists but they will be stripped way when necessary.
This article presents a realistic analysis of the military and political situation between Russia and Ukraine. One side represents a better future for humanity, the other. a worse one. Marxists have to be clear about which is which and which side they are on.
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