'One year of devastating war is enough.'
One hundred and twenty-five years ago, the USA's imperialist/militarist interventions outside the borders of the continental United States began in earnest with the Spanish American War, in 1898. During this war, the U.S. replaced Spain as the colonizing power over Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines.
The Ukraine/Russia war continues to be, at root, a battle for national self-determination by Ukraine against an imperialist power, Russia. Disturbingly, there continue to be leftist groups and individuals in the U.S. who deny this fact. To them, the only imperialism that matters is U.S. imperialism. On top of these dangerous developments, the US is ratcheting up its rhetoric and actions directed against China. In a front-page story in yesterday’s New York Times, reporting on Putin's meeting with"the top Chinese diplomat, Wang Yi," the authors wrote that"the world is retreating into two blocs that bear similarities to those of the Cold War."
Given the ratcheted-up rhetoric coming from both Putin and Biden, this will not be easy. But those of us who appreciate the seriousness of the current situation must speak out now and keep building the political pressure from below. Members of the Progressive Caucus in Congress need to speak out. Religious leaders, union leaders, and other elected officials need to do so. We need a people's peace offensive, not endless war, not in Ukraine or anywhere else.
Maybe what we need today is something similar, something which explicitly names"imperialism" as a continuing evil which must be fought. But the last year of devastating war following Russia's invasion of Ukraine argues for it being very clearly not just an anti-U.S. imperialist entity but one which opposes all forms of imperialism.
The US government's support for Ukraine's legitimate military resistance to the Russian invasion, theoretically, could be happening for other than imperialist reasons. Unfortunately, the language used by the Biden administration over the past year accompanying the massive weapons transfers to Ukraine indicates otherwise.
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