In 2014 Ukraine, great power gamesmanship, righteous anger at a corrupt status quo, and opportunistic far-right extremists toppled the government in the Maidan Revolution. Today’s crisis in Ukraine can’t be understood without understanding Maidan.
This is a different version of “all lives matter”. I also don’t support capitalist imperialist oligarchies, but when you’ve got one imperial power murdering civilians inside another smaller capitalist nation, it’s fucking abysmal to take that as an opportunity to chant what you don’t like about the country whose people are being slaughtered.
If you don’t want to be forced into a stance that’s loosely supportive of us imperialism, which I fully understand, you always have the option to sit out. It doesn’t help leftist or anti-us causes to make it look like we’re siding with russia, which is what everyone hears when you try to “both sides” a war of aggression.
This is a different version of “all lives matter”. I also don’t support capitalist imperialist oligarchies, but when you’ve got one imperial power murdering civilians inside another smaller capitalist nation, it’s fucking abysmal to take that as an opportunity to chant what you don’t like about the country whose people are being slaughtered.
If you don’t want to be forced into a stance that’s loosely supportive of us imperialism, which I fully understand, you always have the option to sit out. It doesn’t help leftist or anti-us causes to make it look like we’re siding with russia, which is what everyone hears when you try to “both sides” a war of aggression.