The crisis of capitalism throughout the world has accelerated the march by American imperialism toward war with the nations it considers obstacles to its continued military and financial primacy, particularly Russia and China. (2/26)
The world stands on the precipice of disaster.
In the 30 years since the fall of the Soviet Union, United States imperialism has been on a rampage across the world, destroying whole societies in the Middle East and Africa. (3/26)
In the 30 years since the fall of the Soviet Union, United States imperialism has been on a rampage across the world, destroying whole societies in the Middle East and Africa. (3/26)
Many millions of people have died from these adventures, more have been turned into refugees or become unspeakably impoverished. The latest military policy of the United States, however, focuses on “Great Power Competition.”
In the South China Sea, (4/26)
In the South China Sea, (4/26)
on the borders of India and Vietnam and from the island of Taiwan, the United States and its allies have encircled China militarily and threatened it with total war while economically sanctioning the world’s largest producer of goods. In Europe, (5/26)
NATO has expanded from Germany one thousand miles to the borders of Russia. Treaties regulating deployment of intermediate range ballistic missiles have been scrapped. Forces have been stacked within a short striking distance of St. Petersburg and Moscow. (6/26)
Controlling a huge section of the Russian border (not to speak of Belarus, Russia’s lone ally in Europe) and hosting the vital Russian naval base in Crimea, (7/26)
Ukraine was subject to a coup in 2014 directed and funded by the United States – yet another US backed color revolution – making Ukraine a US proxy state. Russia could only defend its Black Sea naval base by “annexing” Crimea, (8/26)
which was done through referendum and not through military means. Ukraine, led by a far right US regime cultivated by Washington, waged war on the Russian-speaking East of the Country. Russia meanwhile, was placed under a harsh sanctions regime. (9/26)
The US continued to pile up troops, war machines and missile systems on Russian borders. Ukraine, the second largest country in Europe and already in a virtual war with Russia, requested to join NATO as part of its new constitution. (10/26)
Russia tried to negotiate a way out of this debacle, but failing this, has presently resorted to a thuggish invasion of Ukraine, all the time trying to force the West to negotiate as it pours arms and money into the proxy war of Ukraine with Russia. (11/26)
The ominous words “no-fly zone” and worse are being shouted by the most insane and brazen members of the Western governments. Germany has used the occasion to shed the post-World War II status quo and rearm itself.
The threat of a third, and necessarily nuclear war, (12/26)
The threat of a third, and necessarily nuclear war, (12/26)
is immediate and severe. The slightest miscalculation could end civilization. Only a small exchange of nuclear weapons would be enough to kick up enough radioactive dust to initiate a nuclear winter which would devastate life on this planet. (13/26)
Russia and the United States alone, however, possess tens of thousands of these terror devices.
After sacrificing millions of people to the Covid pandemic through their policies of malignant neglect, (14/26)
After sacrificing millions of people to the Covid pandemic through their policies of malignant neglect, (14/26)
is there any doubt that the ruling class simply does not care about the civilian losses that might accrue from its illusory “limited” or “tactical” nuclear exchange that it imagines is possible as a viable military option? (15/26)
This is according to the principal war planning and policy documents of US imperialism.
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It is in this context that the violent outburst of Russian militarism must be placed. (16/26)
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It is in this context that the violent outburst of Russian militarism must be placed. (16/26)
The stampede for war by the West is conditioned by its military supremacy and its longtime encroachment in the Russian sphere. (17/26)
War Fever or the uncritical backing of the West’s chosen proxy in Ukraine is the complete antithesis of a correct understanding and a humane response. The working class of all countries must unite together in common cause, (18/26)
all of them confronting their own ruling class in a unified anti-war movement. Warmongering capitalism everywhere must be overthrown. In this and this only lies the end to war and the final elimination of the nuclear threat.
The crisis of American and world capitalism, (19/26)
The crisis of American and world capitalism, (19/26)
accentuated by the pandemic, can only lead to barbarism if allowed to further unfold under the direction of the capitalist class. (20/26)
The key to the international situation is to turn the attempt to corral the working class into another disastrous world conflict into a war between classes, into a struggle for socialism.
Capitalism is much more fragile than it appears at first. (21/26)
Capitalism is much more fragile than it appears at first. (21/26)
War tends to reveal this fragility. Capitalism rests on a small minority of the world population, its economic system on paper and electronic claims on production and distribution. (22/26)
The imposing appearance given by the repressive and propaganda arms of the bourgeoisie is not something which can stand up to a revolutionary situation. (23/26)
There is no strong arming or pulling wool over the eyes of an entire population when the interests and experiences of the population have brought them as a mass directly up against the capitalist system. The capitalist war has within it the seed of revolution, (24/26)
and this should be the essential focus of all analysis and writing on the third, and barring the intervention of the working class, inevitably nuclear world war. (25/26)
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