Thread by @DavidNorthWSWS

The massive US-NATO arms shipments to #Ukraine️ are based on dangerous assumptions in Washington. The FT writes that the Biden administration's previous concerns about Russian retaliation "has been all but discarded." 1/ #UkraineRussiaWar

According to the FT: "There has also been a reassessment of the threat posed by Russia's nuclear arsenal, a sabre that Putin rattled early in the war but which analysts now believe he is unlikely to deploy." On what is this assumption based? What if they are wrong? 2/

Boasting publicly about the Javelin missiles and other advanced weaponry the US and NATO are pouring into Ukraine, Biden is either assuming that Russia won't attack the convoys or, more likely, is actually seeking to provoke an attack. In either case, he is acting recklessly. 3/

There is nothing left of the fiction that the United States and NATO are not at war with Russia. In pursuit of regime change, the dismemberment of Russia, and the plundering of its vast resources, American imperialism is risking nuclear war. 4/

In 1938, on the eve of World War II, Trotsky wrote that the ruling class "toboggans with eyes closed toward an economic and military catastrophe." The descent toward an even greater disaster can only be stopped by a global movement of the working class against war. 5/

The International Committee of the Fourth International's #MayDay rally, which will be held next Sunday May 1, will take forward the fight for the building of a mass international anti-war movement. Register and attend the rally. 6/6 wsws.org/en/special/pag…