Reply To: Russian Tensions

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alanjjohnstone
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A short essay from Bhabani Shankar Nayak, University of Glasgow,

https://countercurrents.org/2023/01/war-and-left/

“…unconditional opposition to Russian invasion of Ukraine, NATO and the neo–Nazi Azov battalion in Ukraine is central to left politics for peace, solidarity and internationalism. It is ideological bankruptcy and reactionary politics to choose one over the other in the name of fighting the enemy and protecting the territorial sovereignty… Territorial nationalism is a ruling class ideology…”