Russian Tensions
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That is called self determination of the peoples
The report, compiled by two thinktanks, the New Lines Institute in Washington and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights in Montreal, found that there were “reasonable grounds to conclude” that Russia is already in breach of two articles of the 1948 Genocide Convention, by publicly inciting genocide, and by the forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia, which the report notes is itself a genocidal act under article II of the convention… The report concludes there is “a serious risk of genocide in Ukraine..,
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/27/russia-guilty-inciting-genocide-ukraine-expert-report
https://revcom.us/en/bob_avakian/ukraine-world-war-3-real-danger-not-repeat-world-war-2
This is the analysis made by a Maoist group in regard to the war in Ukraine
https://www.bjreview.com/Opinion/Voice/202205/t20220524_800295120.html
https://www.bjreview.com/Opinion/Voice/202203/t20220318_800279934.html
Beijing ( Peking ) review on the war in Ukraine
Zelenskiy ruled out the idea of using force to win back all the land Ukraine has lost to Russia since 2014, which includes the southern peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Moscow that year.
“I do not believe that we can restore all of our territory by military means. If we decide to go that way, we will lose hundreds of thousands of people,” he said.
Interesting observation by the Financial Times;
“American officials have at times been annoyed with the tough talk from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and foreign secretary Liz Truss, who gave a speech in April calling to push Russia out of “the whole of Ukraine”. They have bristled at British calls for more aid or a more muscular response when the US has been the largest provider and has moved mass amounts of assistance into Ukraine at record speeds. ‘The British are actually a step out in front of the Americans, they keep looking over their shoulder to make sure they are being followed,’ said Jeremy Shapiro, research director of the European Council on Foreign Relations.”
https://www.ft.com/content/315346dc-e1bd-485c-865b-979297f3fcf5
If that happens then people will decide that the pain involved in trying to save the Ukrainian regime is not worth it and the Tories will be booted out at the first opportunity. And good bye to Borys and Truss, the warmongers who thought that the public would put up with the pain that they inflicted.
Incidentally, I thought the Russian riposte to Truss was amusing;
There is a referendum in Denmark tomorrow on whether or not to join the EU defence policy. This should give some measure of popular disagreement with the dominant pro-war narrative.
This might be the sort of referendum in which socialists could vote No?
Mutual Assured Depression continues:
Just received the following message from the director of Nonviolence International:
“Nonviolence International (NVI) has produced a unique internal report on Russian public opinion and anti-war messaging.
This report was written by Russian sociologists inside Russia. We are not widely distributing it for security reasons.
We hope that any of you with Russian friends or contacts will use this report to reach out to them to undermine support for the war in Ukraine.
https://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/nvi_ukraine_report_2022
We also have an annex to the report with some of our recommendations.
Our team in Russia and Ukraine will now test out anti-war messaging along the lines of research we have conducted.
The need for resistance to the war is essential. Please support our efforts with people in Russia and Ukraine to bring this war to an end.”
The cost in soldiers
Zelenskiy said: “we’re losing 60-100 soldiers per day as killed in action and something around 500 people as wounded in action.”
About 15,000 Russian troops have been killed and 40,000 wounded since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, western officials have estimated.
If we say its been a 100 days of conflict, Russian casualties per day isn’t very much higher than the Ukrainian
If the Eurovision Song Contest was anything to go by, they might as well award the World Cup to Ukraine now and do away with all the formalities.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Danish_European_Union_opt-out_referendum
The warmongers won the Danish referendum but, despite the wall-to-wall pro-Ukraine propaganda, one third of those who voted voted NEJ. I would say that’s a good result. It shows you can’t brainwash all the people all the time.
I wonder what the result would be in other states sending arms to Ukraine to keep the killing and destruction there going.
Weapons sent to Ukraine after Russia’s invasion in February will end up in the global hidden economy and in the hands of criminals, the head of Interpol has said.
Jürgen Stock says once the conflict ends, a wave of guns and heavy arms will flood the international market…
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