Avram Rips wrote: " It’s not a western proxy war for starters. People are being blown up in Kharkiv, Donetsk and other places and the Ukrainians aren’t fighting in proxy because of NATO. They actually have agency , which is there country not being colonized by Russia. Lenin supported independent Republicans self -determination. Putin wants a greater Russia- Rusofacation of all former Soviet Republics,Notice even Lithuania being fortified because of the Russian threat."
My Response: The fact that that people are dying in Kharkiv and elsewhere does not negate the fact of it being a US proxy war. Who is firing so-called ATTACMs and Stormshadows into pre-war Russia? Western countries and their technicians. Like I said in the essay - Ukraine is the booster rocket that launched America's capsule designed to deliver the death blow to Mother Russia! Had the Minsk talks been allowed to succeed there would be no need for the Russians to want to neutralize the threat to their sovereignty and security by aggressively prosecuting the SMO till all their objectives are met. Referenda were held in the regions you are alluding to. I am not an apologist for any imperialism - Russian of American - but I do know that Russia had a duty to neutralise the existential threat posed by a Nato-ized Ukraine. *Julian Lahai Samboma* *Writer and Filmmaker* *M: +44 (0) 7724 502132* eBeefs <https://www.ebeefs.com/> Books <https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AJulian+Lahai+Samboma&s=relevancerank&text=Julian+Lahai+Samboma&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34510): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34510 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110506717/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
