Ukraine

Would A ‘Cold’ War Be The Best News Around?

March 7, 2022 Michael Klare, Tom Dispatch. Educate! Geopolitics, New Cold War, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been widely described as the beginning of a new cold war, much like the old one in both its cast of characters and ideological nature. “In the contest between democracy and autocracy, between sovereignty and subjugation, make no mistake — freedom will prevail,” President Biden asserted in a televised address to the nation the day Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine. But while Russia and the West disagree on many issues of principle, this is not a replay of the Cold War. It’s an all-too-geopolitical twenty-first-century struggle for advantage on a highly contested global chessboard. If comparisons are in order, think of this moment as more akin to the situation Europe confronted prior to World War I than in the aftermath of World War II.

Ukraine’s Top Negotiator Says Kiev Open To ‘Non-NATO Models’

March 7, 2022 Kyle Anzalone And Will Porter, AntiWar.com. Educate! NATO, Russia, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

In an early sign of compromise following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine late last month, a senior member on Kiev’s negotiation team said his country is open to remaining outside of the NATO military bloc – a key security concern raised by Moscow time and again. Speaking to Fox News’s Nana Sajaia about the progress of the talks on Saturday, Ukraine’s chief negotiator David Arakhamia said little had been accomplished so far. With another meeting set for Monday, however, he outlined certain tradeoffs Kiev is willing to make, including its membership in the North Atlantic alliance. “We are ready to discuss some non-NATO models. For example, there could be direct guarantees by different countries like the US, China, UK, maybe Germany and France,” Arakhamia said.

Ukrainian Extremists Prevent People From Leaving Mariupol City

March 6, 2022 Hala Zain, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Donetsk, Neo-Nazis, Russia, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

Donetsk, Kiev, SANA - Ukrainian extremist battalions are preventing civilians from leaving the Ukrainian city of Mariupol through a humanitarian corridor, and took them as human shields, Deputy Head of the People’s Militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Eduard Basurin said on Thursday, March 3. Quoted by Sputnik, Basurin added that the city is suffering from lack of water in addition to the deteriorated humanitarian situation due to the practices of the Ukrainian extremists. He warned that the Ukrainian army personnel will be exposed to strict strikes if they don’t hand over their weapons. Ukrainian extremists executed Mayor of city of Kreminna, Vlodymyr Struk after abducting him from his home.

Talking Up War Is Easy, As Westminster’s Political Outbidding Continues

March 6, 2022 Patrick Carey, Popular Resistance. Educate! Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom (UK), Wars and Militarism

The UK’s Premier Johnson, stung by his own Tory right-wingers’ accusations of being “too soft” last week, is setting the agenda for the UK blundering into an all out war with Russia. He wrote today in The New York Times “Putin must fail and must be seen to fail in this act of aggression”. The humiliation aspect in “seen to fail” is a provocative folly. A few days ago it was Labour that was emerging as the more bellicose party, insisting on ever-more inflammatory measures. The background to this appears to be the case that the UK and its NATO allies are using the Russian invasion of Ukraine to conduct a many faceted destabilisation campaign against Russia, with the aim of removing Putin and the eventual dismemberment of the Russian state.

Another Casualty Of The Ukraine Conflict: The Truth

March 6, 2022 Michael Brenner, Scheer Post. Educate! Media, Propaganda, Russia, Ukraine

War and conflict are the enemies of truth. Accurate perception, precise language and objectivity are its first victims. For good reason. Emotion eclipses reason. The ‘we/they’ prism refracts and distorts our thoughts. The individual is swept up into the mass mood. Frenzy roils just below the surface. Experiences of war and conflict, though, are not uniform. They vary. Whose blood is being shed, in what quantities? Are we the direct protagonist or just the empathetic supporters of certain combatants? How closely and why do we identify with one side? How much do we hate the other side? Is our collective self ginger and vulnerable or self-confident? What is the pre-existing anxiety level? Consequently, each situation is peculiar. A country’s subjective response and attendant behavior, therefore, can be highly revealing.

Putin, Lenin, Imperialism And The (Real) History Of Ukraine

March 6, 2022 Gary Leupp, Counter Punch. Educate! Lenin, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

The people of this country suffer, I’ve always thought, from a general ignorance of history. This is because with vast oceans for borders, and ever-friendly neighbors, and no experience of being invaded, living in a country that has always urged assimilation including the acceptance of “American exceptionalism,” schooled through an educational system that avoids teaching U.S. history with any degree of credibility so as not to upset anybody, they’ve never been encouraged to think critically about the past. To ask questions. To raise objections—not necessarily about what happened, but about how to interpret and depict what happened—does not come naturally to them. Ukraine is a place few people in this country can find on a map.

Ukraine War: Who’s To Blame And What’s The Solution? A Socialist View

March 5, 2022 Eugene Puryear and Brian Becker, BreakThrough News. Resistance Report NATO, Russia, Ukraine, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

Intense bombing and fighting continues throughout Ukraine as Russia’s war enters its second week. Western countries have imposed a sanctions regime on Russia that is battering the economy and hitting workers the hardest. Eugene Puryear and Brian Becker discuss the latest on the war and explore the essential historical context, establishing five basic principles and points of unity for progressive forces in the West. They also discuss how the question of war and imperialism has served as an essential litmus test for socialists in the past.

Could This Be Russiagate’s Checkmate?

March 5, 2022 Jacqueline Luqman, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Democratic Party, Donald Trump, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, US Imperialism

Well, it only took six years. Six years for the Democratic Party to weaponize Russiagate into not just a way to blame and shame Black voters for the spectacular loss that Hillary Clinton suffered against The-Candidate-Who-Couldn’t-Have-Ever-Won-If-Hillary-Had- Actually-Campaigned-Like-She-Wanted-to-Earn-People’s-Votes-Instead-Of-Thinking- She-Was- Entitled-To-Them: Donald Trump. Six years of US corporate media mouthpieces telling Americans that Hillary lost because Black voters were duped by Rainbow Bernie Bikini posts, shoe ads, and “Like if You Love Jesus” posts that convinced them to either not vote, or to vote for Trump. Four years of “Look What You Blacks Did In Not Helping Elect Hillary” - having Black women on these corporate news outlets trash Black men for a slight uptick in Black men who voted Republican for Trump, as if the massive support Trump received from white women voters wasn’t what really drove him into office in the states that mattered most.

Ukraine No-Fly Zone ‘Could Lead To End Of Human Civilization’

March 5, 2022 Yves Engler. Educate! Nuclear War, Russia, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

Recently, former Conservative cabinet minister Chris Alexander, New Brunswick education minister Dominic Cardy and former Chief of the Defense Staff Rick Hillier have raised the idea of creating a “no-fly zone” (NFZ) over Ukraine. “We’re calling on all governments of the world to support creating a no fly zone over Ukraine”, declared Michael Shwec, president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, at a rally in Montréal. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US Congressman Adam Kinzinger have also called for NATO to adopt a NFZ. A NFZ over Ukraine means war with Russia. It would force the US or NATO to shoot down Russian planes. A war between Russia and NATO would be horrendous. Both the US and Russia have thousands of nuclear weapons.

Calling Russia’s Attack ‘Unprovoked’ Lets US Off The Hook

March 5, 2022 Bryce Greene, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. Educate! Journalism, Media, Russia, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

Many governments and media figures are rightly condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine as an act of aggression and a violation of international law. But in his first speech about the invasion, on February 24, US President Joe Biden also called the invasion “unprovoked.” It’s a word that has been echoed repeatedly across the media ecosystem. “Putin’s forces entered Ukraine’s second-largest city on the fourth day of the unprovoked invasion,” Axios (2/27/22) reported; “Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine entered its second week Friday,” said CNBC (3/4/22). Vox (3/1/22) wrote of “Putin’s decision to launch an unprovoked and unnecessary war with the second-largest country in Europe.”

Is This Russian Propaganda?

March 5, 2022 Caitlin Johnstone. Educate! NATO, Russia, Ukraine, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

We're risking a very fast, very radioactive World War 3 to defend the "democracy" of a nation whose government bans opposition parties, imprisons political opponents, shuts down opposition media, and takes all its orders from Washington due to a US-backed coup in 2014. "Defending Ukrainian democracy" makes as much sense as "Defending Mongolian seaports". The powers responsible for destroying Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Yemen are the same powers we're trusting to carefully navigate extremely delicate nuclear brinkmanship escalations without ending the world. "Relax, nobody's gonna start a nuclear war" is a belief that is premised upon the assumption that the empire which laid waste those nations, while destroying our environment and making everyone crazy and miserable, is competent enough to walk that precarious and unpredictable tightrope.

On The Predictable Demise Of RT America

March 5, 2022 Sam Husseini. Create! Censorship, Journalism, Media, Russia, Ukraine

The closure of RT America follows effective censorship of the channel. The ultimate decision to close was made following a cut off of service by DirecTV and Roku. Big Tech firms were also increasingly targeting RT. Reuters reported: "Tech companies in recent days have moved to restrict Russian state-controlled media including RT and Sputnik in response to requests from governments and calls to prevent the spread of Russia propaganda." Many will try to argue that the developments in the U.S. are completely different from the European Commission recently banned RT and Sputnik. But it more clearly highlights the congruence of government and major corporate agendas. And indeed, as with Big Tech censorship generally, sometimes the collusion is outright, see my interview last year with Nadine Strossen, former head of the ACLU.

How Ukraine’s Jewish President Made Peace With Neo-Nazi Paramilitaries

March 5, 2022 Alexander Rubinstein And Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone. Educate! Media, Neo-Nazis, Russia, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

Back in October 2019, as the war in eastern Ukraine dragged on, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to Zolote, a town situated firmly in the “gray zone” of Donbas, where over 14,000 had been killed, mostly on the pro-Russian side. There, the president encountered the hardened veterans of extreme right paramilitary units keeping up the fight against separatists just a few miles away. Elected on a platform of de-escalation of hostilities with Russia, Zelensky was determined to enforce the so-called Steinmeier Formula conceived by then-German Foreign Minister Walter Steinmeier which called for elections in the Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.

In These Days Of Great Tension, Peace Is A Priority

March 4, 2022 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Russia, Ukraine, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

It is impossible not to be moved by the outrageousness of warfare, the ugliness of aerial bombardment, the gruesome fears of civilians who are trapped between choices that are not their own. If you read this line and assume I am talking about Ukraine, then you are right, but of course, this is not just about Ukraine. In the same week that Russian forces entered Ukraine, the United States launched airstrikes in Somalia, Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen, and Israel struck Syria and Palestinians in Gaza. War is an open sore on humanity’s soul. It draws precious social wealth into destruction: ‘The impact of war is self-evident’, wrote Karl Marx in the Grundrisse (1857–58), ‘since, economically, it is exactly the same as if the nation were to drop a part of its capital into the ocean’.

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