Petrol on a burning fire

January 14, 2023

Don’t throw petrol on a burning fire seems like sensible advice. Don’t poke the bear seems to be also good advice but one that Western ‘leaders’ seem determined to ignore. News that France is to supply Ukraine with AMX-10 RC light tanks, while the UK plans to send Chieftains, is disturbing, while plans by the USA and Germany to send the Bradley Fighting Vehicle and the Marder Infantry Fighting Vehicle are even more so.

At what point will Russia consider western states have openly declared war on them and respond accordingly?

The Socialist Party has been, since 1904, consistent in its opposition to armed conflict. The question is, who does the continuing conflict between Russia and Ukraine benefit? Answer, not the working class of either state.