UKRAINE: The Goldilocks War
Are you happy with the way the war in the former Ukraine is going?
Are you happy with the way the war in the former Ukraine is going?
The recapture of the Kharkov region at the beginning of September appears to be a success for Ukrainian forces. Our media exulted and relayed Ukrainian propaganda to give us a picture that is not entirely accurate. A closer look at the operations might have prompted Ukraine to be more cautious.
Ukrainian channels widely report overflowing hospitals. The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed 4,000 killed and 8,000 wounded for Ukraine during their advance
The inter-imperialist camp, as it has been called, has dedicated itself to painting the Ukraine conflict strictly in terms of inter-imperialist struggle. In their dedication to this interpretation, they have committed to a series of surprisingly extravagant claims, some of which I intend to gather here and hold up to the light.
I interview Steve Sweeney, International Editor of The Morning Star, anti-imperialist journalist, Founder of Media Workers for Palestine – an old fashioned journalist who goes where he writes about including to the NATO hub of military training, weapon trafficking and Nazi/Fascist elements in Ukraine – Lviv.
Is it possible that the war we thought we won in 1945 was merely a battle within a larger war for civilization whose outcome yet remains to be seen?
The massive support of the United States and its allies for the Ukrainian Banderites against Russia is comparable to the support of the same side in the early days of Hitler’s Germany against the USSR.
On 16 April 2015, seven years ago, Oles Buzina, Ukrainian journalist and writer, was shot dead in Kiev, after his personal data, including address, were published on the Ukro-Nazis hit list site Myrotvorets
“I believe this crisis to be the defining crisis of the 21st Century so far. … It is also something that may well define the shape of the planet for the rest of the century”
COVID has radically altered my view of academic science. The institution I was practically born into and believed worth saving now seems irrevocably compromised. The heads of health science funding suppressed research to support policies that caused 20 million people to starve.