Why should one be pleased that German politicians in the Bundestag are openly blaring out militarist language that they have not dared use since 1945? Why is it not possible to oppose the Russian invasion without becoming a cheerleader for US/NATO warmongering? 1/
https://twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/1497909782782615560
The worst aspect of Putin’s action is that it has facilitated a vast escalation of US-NATO militarism. And as so often in the past, the middle class is being swept along. All the past and ongoing crimes of US imperialism are forgotten and forgiven. 2/
It is entirely correct to sympathize with the plight of the Ukrainian people and to oppose the invasion on principled left wing grounds. But why accept the deceitful and hypocritical narrative of the Biden administration? 3/
The academics, who should know better, have fallen in line. They are marching in step with the war mongering drumbeat. Shades of the beginning of WWI. Not a word is said about the 1999 bombing of Belgrade, the invasion of Iraq and the razing of Fallujah. 4/
Or the destruction of Afghanistan, where MILLIONS are now starving. Has the bombing of tiny Gaza been forgotten, and the arrogant denunciations of the small protests against this atrocity as “anti-Semitic.” 5/
Those who consider themselves on the left, and especially the socialist left, should oppose the Russian invasion on principled grounds (opposition to chauvinism, militarism) without succumbing to imperialism. 6/6
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