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Rather surprising piece by MI6-vetted BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner on how most of the world is not supporting NATO in its proxy war with Russia:
Here is a blow by blow account in a local online paper of the online hustings last Saturday from which we excluded:
The following comment has been submitted:
“You state that the parties contesting the elections were all represented. This is not accurate. The Socialist Party of Great Britain, which is fielding a candidate in Clapham East, was not only not represented but was deliberately excluded. The organisers even refused to read out a one-minute statement saying we were standing. Adam Buick, Election Agent for Danny Lambert.”
We have also sent the Brixton Buzz the exchange of emails with the organisers to back up what we stated in the comment.
After banning 11 political parties as “pro-Russian”, the Ukrainian regime has now moved on the next stage — getting its secret police to round up the members and supporters of these parties on the grounds that they are “traitors” and “collaborators”:
https://globalnews.ca/news/8797266/ukraine-traitors-russian-army/amp/
It is becoming increasingly clear that the Ukrainian and Russian regimes are as bad as each other.
A comrade in a nearby ward in Clapham where we don’t have a candidate has distributed about 700 leaflets as part of the QR experiment. They only have less than 200 left which will be distributed before polling day in 5 May.
There are also less than 200 left at Head Office which the branch hopes to distribute tomorrow.
I thought I was going to read some breaking news but then I saw the date!
More interesting will be the fate of the Makhno statue in his home town of Hulyaipole (or Gulyaipole as it may be renamed) Russia captures it. I suppose, if hasn’t been destroyed in the preliminary shelling it depends on whether or not he is portrayed as a Ukrainian patriot as, stupidly, here (click preview) but
busts of “Ukrainian patriots” must be selling well these days.Powerful article by Simon Jenkins in yesterday’s Guardian about what Truss is up to do;
In case it’s behind a paywall here’s how it starts;
“Liz Truss risks recklessly inflaming Ukraine’s war to serve her own ambition
Simon JenkinsThe foreign secretary’s belligerent comments on Russia reduce Ukraine to a pawn in the Conservatives’ power struggle
The foreign secretary, Liz Truss, is playing with fire. On Wednesday night she described Russia’s Vladimir Putin as a “rogue operator” lacking rationality, and with “no interest in international norms”. As a result, she said: “We will keep going further and faster to push Russia out of the whole of Ukraine.” She is clearly revelling in her imagined proxy war on the Russian bear and no one in Whitehall appears able to restrain her.
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Before his stunt visit to Kyiv this month, Boris Johnson also instructed Volodymyr Zelenskiy not to make any concessions to Putin, a line Truss is clearly seeking to rival. It is not unknown for democratic leaders to play war games to excite their electorates, but this must be the first Tory leadership contest fought on the frontiers of Russia.”Normally you would expect the opposition party to expose this sort of thing but the Labour Party is apparently afraid that doing this would undermine its proud claim to be “the party of NATO” and its leftwing MPs have been cowed into submission by threats to be given the Corbyn treatment.
That’s assuming that he was a mercenary hired by the Ukrainian state and not a military adviser provided by the British state or a member of the SAS. It would be surprising if there weren’t any British army boots on the soil there.
I see Truss called her war-mongering speech “The Return of Geopolitics” declaring that “geopolitics is back”. But when did it ever go away in relations between the Great Powers as they compete to dominate sources of raw materials, trade routes and investment outlets and to control strategic points and areas to do this?
And of course it well explains the NATO-Russia War in Ukraine.
In view of Truss’s war aim of pushing Russian troops out of the whole of the Ukraine including Crimea, it is not surprising that the headline in today’s Times is “Truss fears Ukraine war could carry on for years”.
I am not sure, though, that “fears” is the right word. It should be “wants”. As that’s how long it would take to achieve her declared war aim. It is also unlikely to be achieved without NATO boots on the grounds and an exchange of tactical nuclear weapons by both sides.
Fortunately, diplomats from other countries regard her as a crackpot. As indeed she is if that’s what she wants.
A lot of the Greeks in Ukraine speak Russian not Ukrainian and so are persecuted by the Ukrainian nationalists. Some support Russia.
https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/03/18/greek-refugee-from-mariupol/?amp
Kent & Sussex branch are planning to finish distributing the election leaflets in Tunbridge Wells this Sunday 1 May. Anyone wishing to help, text or phone 07971 715569 about where to meet up.
Here is another example of Truss’s lack of grasp of realities and general stupidity. She has just declared that Britain’s war aim in (or for) Ukraine is to push all Russian troops out Ukraine, ie from the Crimea and the areas of the Donbas Russia seized in 2014 as well as what they have conquered this year.
“Russian forces must be pushed out of “the whole of Ukraine”, the Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said.
In a keynote speech in London, Ms Truss said victory for Ukraine was now a “strategic imperative” for the West.
This amounts to the clearest statement yet of Britain’s war aims which have, until now, been limited to stating that President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine “must fail and be seen to fail”.
She said Western allies must “double down” in their support for Ukraine.
“We will keep going further and faster,” Ms Truss said, “to push Russia out of the whole of Ukraine.”
This implies that Russian forces must leave not just the territory occupied in recent weeks since their invasion on 24 February but also those areas they invaded and annexed eight years ago, such as Crimea in the south and parts of the eastern Donbas region.”https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61251698.amp
But also:
“The war in Ukraine is our war – it is everyone’s war… because Ukraine’s victory is a strategic imperative for all of us.”
For all of us? What interest have ordinary people in the US and its NATO allies achieving the “strategic imperative” of incorporating the whole of the Ukraine (or what would be left of it to achieve this) into their sphere of influence? None whatsoever. All they are getting out of it is the pain of an increased cost of living crisis.
At least she has cut the crap about this being a war for “democratic values” and admitted that it’s about geopolitics.
Moldavia won’t qualify to join any more than Ukraine did — they too have an internal breakaway problem which renders them ineligible.
This statement above from Blunden about why the US is supplying Ukraine with arms admits that in relations between capitalist states “might is right”:
“Our purpose is to make sure that they have within their hands the ability to repel the Russian aggression and indeed to strengthen their hand at an eventual negotiating table.”
