Russian Tensions
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The Socialist Party ( and the WSM ) since its foundation has advocated that the liberation of the working class would be done by the working class themselves without any leaders, and it was the same conception advocated for Marx and Engels through their whole life, and it was the center of their writings versus the conception of leadership and cadres propagated by the bolsheviks and its followers. I stick my gun to that conception
‘Does Ukraine face a “Syrian scenario?’
Article written by the anarchist Ukrainian group ‘Assembly’, published here by the WSWS:
It looks as if the war in Ukraine has a control of important raw materials aspect too:
Confirmation from a non-Russian-media source:
What a joke. A treaty that supposed to apply for a 100 years. I wonder who thought that one up.
100 years is a long time during which conditions change a lot. Imagine if Britain had signed a 100-year treaty with some country in 1925 how long would it have lasted? And then think what might happen in the next 100 years up to 2125.
This stupid stunt won’t be remembered even in 5 years.
In spite of Trump, and before any deal can be agreed, the UK and EU appear to be pressing ahead with their Russophobia.
I get the UK’s stubbornness, but I still don’t understand the EU’s, given that it, and Germany especially, was three years ago hesitant to go along with US (Biden) policy (scrapping Nordstream and buying US gas).
Why is the EU so gung-ho now?
This is the third time I’ve asked this here.
If anyone has any doubts about the economic motives of the Ukraine Russia war…
“We have enough rare earth metals, and you can see that Russia has been occupying our territories since 2014. Part of these territories indeed has large deposits of minerals. We are open to having our partners, who help us defend the land, develop these resources. They push the enemy back with their weapons, presence, and sanctions. And this is absolutely fair,” Zelenskyy noted.
Also this
This may or may not have implications for the ongoing war in the Ukraine–
Can’t Trump get the same from Putin?
Well, according to Reuters article I linked to above
“Zelenskiy said less than 20% of Ukraine’s mineral resources, including about half its rare earth deposits, were under Russian occupation”In theory, Trump being a capitalist businessman might want to juggle with a few options. Should he support Ukraine and hope that it might recapture some of the ground the Russian forces now occupy so he can get his hands on more of these rare earth deposits? But that scenario is very unlikely to happen, it is more probable that Russia will gain further ground this year and there are the costs of further military support to take into account too. Of course, there is always the Greenland option but it looks like the EU is going to intervene and prevent mineral-rich Greenland from becoming part of Murica
This doesn’t look good for the Zelensky regime. Even the attempt to lure Trump with the promise of Ukraine´s mineral riches seems to have failed because 1) rights to these have already been sold off (so it was just an attempted con trick) 2) Most of the rare minerals sites are on land occupied by the Russian military.
Now this:
“No NATO membership, no return to pre-2014 borders, and no more relying on U.S. for military funding – Trump delivers hammer blow to Ukraine as America comes first”I can´t see this war lasting much longer. I read somewhere that there have been in excess of 100,000 deserters from the Ukrainian side and military recruiters are facing increasing hostility when they visit towns to try to harvest more cannon fodder.
One would hope that same is true of the Russian side and that Russian workers in uniform would desert too. Some have but I’m not too sure of the total. This has been a stupid pointless conflict in which workers on either side have absolutely nothing to gain and so much to lose.
Nationalism is a sick death cult. Hopefully, the killing will soon come to an end
Again, after an apparently reluctant Germany and rest of the EU was forced by Biden’s USA to break with Russian gas, now the EU is the party moaning about the US stand-off with Russia coming to an end, and would prefer it to continue. What gives?
Can NATO continue without the US?
Or am I getting ahead of myself? In four years the pendulum could swing right back to another Russian stand-off and a reversal of Trump’s foreign policy.
It seems that those who wanted to expand NATO and its missiles right up to the border of Russia and in fact into territory that had long been part of Russia have come unstuck.
Starmer with his 100-year treaty with Ukraine might want to continue but (fortunately) hasn’t the capacity to do so.
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