I'm sympathetic to Ukraine, but it is blatantly obvious that US support has been primarily about funneling money to defense contractors while slowly bleeding Ukraine in order to slowly bleed Russia. There was a diplomatic solution at the beginning of this that was ignored in favor of these goals.
New Popular Front's program to simultaneously support Ukraine in its war for national defense and Palestine in its fight against apartheid is, and should be, the standard for the Left.
When the initial invasion occurred neither Ukraine nor anyone else had any more diplomatic avenues available than Czechoslovakia had in 1939. Russia was determined to embark on a war of conquest, period. Previous Crimea + Donbas invasions were also Russian escalations
The democratically demonstrated choice of the people of Ukraine was further economic and institutional integration with Europe AND peace with Russia. If that threatens Russia that is Russia's problem! Zelensky was the somewhat more pro-Russian candidate in 2019 in many ways
if the people of Ukraine want to vote themselves into a crippling IMF loan, that's their prerogative. but if you think the pro-Western politicians are better than the pro-Russian politicians, I don't think you're actually paying attention
I'm paying much closer attention than you, because it seems pretty obvious that EU-aligned states with EU-derived institutions are doing far better along almost every metric than Russian-aligned ones. Lithuania is far, far better off than Belarus
LMAO, yes, Donald Tusk is vastly better than Aleksandr Lukashenko. And even the relatively shitty previous Polish leadership could at least be voted out because they had liberal, EU-style institutions! Utter clown opinion to say otherwise
sucks for Russia who are unable to subjugate developing countries to establish sweatshops and steal minerals to enrich themselves but I guess Western chauvinism makes you happy. who am I to judge?
Which Euro countries currently have heads of state who reliably assassinate unfriendly journalists? Not even in Hungary, though that could certainly change.
Putin's been fixated on revanchism and reconquering Ukraine and other former Soviet states for decades- NATO is a distant second concern and useful excuse
you make Putin seem so much more epic than the political bureaucrat middleman that he is. but he also puts people in jail and has some killed. clearly a global concern! 😰
"middleman" is such a strange term to use for someone actively invading one neighbor and dropping missles on a children's hospital, threatening other nations while in charge of a still significant nuclear arsenal.
If you think his derangement as described sounds epic that's a you problem.
He doesn't even mention NATO much when he talks about it to domestic audiences! He talks vastly more about shit like the rightful inheritors of the Byzantine Empire than he does about NATO!
That monologuing rant he gave right after the invasion rambled on and on with old party-line ahistorical talking points about how Ukraine was invented by Lenin and doesn't have a right to exist apart from Russia, etc. and relatively little about NATO. Notion that he wouldn't have invaded is bunk.
Ukraine wants to join NATO for the economic benefit. Russia doesn't want Ukraine to join NATO which would create a united front on their border. invade Ukraine, no united front
