Professor Hett should know better. The comparison of Ukraine to Spain is a grotesque distortion of history. The Spanish Civil War was a historic confrontation between the revolutionary Spanish working class, fighting for socialism, and a fascist counter-revolution. 1/
https://twitter.com/BenjaminHett/status/1499011670429122565
If Professor Hett were to travel to Ukraine, he would find himself fighting alongside the fascists of the Azov Brigade and rightwing elements from all over the world, anxious to receive training for paramilitary operations in their own countries. 2/
In the Spanish Civil War, Franco was armed by Nazi Germany and fascist Italy; and benefited from the covert sympathy of French and British imperialism. Roosevelt's "neutrality" helped assure Franco's victory. 3/
If there were a social revolution in Ukraine, its military forces would not enjoy the economic, political and military backing of US/NATO imperialism. Or have the US and NATO, which have waged brutal wars for the last 30 years, suddenly become a progressive force? 4/
It seems that Professor Hett, who has written books about fascism in the 1930s, has developed amnesia in relation to the unending chain of war crimes committed by the US and NATO since 1990. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, the bombing of Belgrade, etc. have been forgotten. 5/
One should be able to oppose Putin's desperate invasion of Ukraine without becoming a cheerleader for imperialism. Professor Hett's enthusiastic endorsement of the war exemplifies the intellectual and political disorientation of the affluent professional middle class. 6/6
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