Russian Tensions
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It’s rather disappointing that the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, especially for liberals and some other leftists, is now becoming a matter of “Trump vs Ukraine,” as if it were ever that simple. I don’t understand how difficult it is for these people to read about things like Crimeans’ views on being “liberated” by Ukraine, Ukrainians’ acts of resistance against the war and the Ukrainian regime’s forced mobilization, the policies of the post-Maidan regime and the hostility towards them by people in the southern and eastern regions of Ukraine, etc. They only see that Trump wants the mineral resources in Ukraine and automatically assume that Zelensky and the post-Maidan government are innocent saints. They just don’t approach the matter seriously at all. If you now criticize the Ukrainian regime, then you risk being lumped into the Trump camp. The disastrous meeting yesterday, which I have a feeling was partly planned by the Trump team, certainly helped to promote this false dichotomy.
Incidentally, the propaganda expression “save Ukraine” sort of reminds me of Chomsky’s critcisms of the expression “support our troops”:
The point of public relations slogans like “Support our troops” is that they don’t mean anything. They mean as much as whether you support the people in Iowa. Of course, there was an issue. The issue was, “do you support our policy?” But you don’t want people to think about that issue. That’s the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody’s going to be against, and everybody’s going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn’t mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: “do you support our policy?”
The original Leninist party at least not jumping on Starmer’s wagon.
Interesting commentary. It rather suggests that Zelensky has scewed himself and his cause through his incaution and manipulative tactics
https://www.aaronmate.net/p/zelenskys-hostility-to-peace-triggers
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/ 03/03/rheu-m03.html
Socialists and class-conscious workers understand that Trump’s pacifism is strategic and that he represents the sectors of capitalists who want to focus on China. At this moment, he seeks to align with Russia as a counterbalance to China and in the regions where they have influence, etc. However, for our brothers in Ukraine and Russia, this peace—at least for now—is better than the continuation of this massacre.
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Starmer et al are talking as though they’ll be allowed to send troops to Ukraine. They won’t. If they try unilaterally, they’ll incur Trump’s wrath as well as Putin’s. Well, there won’t be a peace deal if they do.Is that what Starmer’s hoping then with his theatrics? To scupper any deal?
https://www.ft.com/content/dc9c51ab-03cb-47ba-ad0a-09c4deed9b50
Restarting Nordstream 2?
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/03/rheu-m03.html
The sight of that obnoxious capitalist warmonger, Bernie Sanders, makes me want to reach for the nearest bucket. He couldn’t care a toss about the lives of workers lost on both sides of the obscene capitalist war….
I really don’t know who is worse. People like him or Trump
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