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The same right wing nutters baying for blood
Failing to support Ukraine means Russia could likely overwhelm them and lead to more death and massacres like Bucha and everywhere else the Russians have gained control. Are the lefties who don’t consider or care about this baying for Ukrainian blood?
In this war Russia has embarrassed themselves, and have suffered greatly. From the start the appeasers, left and right, have said Ukraine should give up and sue for peace. It looks even more ludicrous when Russia failed in their objectives and struggle. Why should Ukraine have to give up their territory to an invader? If Norway or Denmark invaded the east of England and said they’re rightfully reclaiming the Danelaw, would we be happy with ceding York, Norwich, Durham etc? No, yet these people expect the same of Ukraine.
To the ‘anti-imperialist’ left protecting Ukrainians means giving up and allowing Russia to take over against their whim, slaughter them, torture them expel them and hold them hostage. To the ‘anti-imperialist’ left baying for blood means allowing Ukrainians to defend themselves against aggressors, accept subjugation, and more bloodshed. All this talk from the hard left cowards of letting Putin have the Donbass and Crimea for ‘peace’. Are they so stupid to think Putin would be happy to settle with such gains? Are they so dumb to think that Russia would accept a ceasefire? How many more times do Russia have to violate ceasefires, as in Syria, before they think about their reliability and not just gobble up Russian propaganda?
It used to be that there was international solidarity from the left. They came to the aid of the Spanish republic during their civil war. Now an authoritarian right wing and essentially fascist despot launches a war of aggression, while deliberately massacring and targeting civilians and they whine about help. I thought the left was supposed to be about looking after the vulnerable. Now they show the same utter disregard for others, when it suits, like Farage and the other isolationist right wingers. 64 says the left is about caring and that’s it. Ha! Of course some do, but a large chunk (including those who make this claim) could not care less about suffering of those if they’re among western allies.
This war has really exposed them, the mask has slipped. The so called pacifists have every excuse in the book to appease the aggressor and only demand the victim to compromise. If their pacifism was in any way principled we’d see their anger at Russia for this and Syria, but they’re not, despite reminding us of how virtuous and superior they are to us neoliberals, red Tories, actual Tories, Blairites and other impure souls who can’t live up to their self-righteous standards.