As the Ukraine war drags on, more attention is being paid to the real reason for Putin\u2019s attack on his neighbour -the desire of Russia\u2019s capitalist class, backed by its government, to control Ukraine\u2019s mineral and agricultural wealth. That wealth was an inevitable temptation to a large power whose monopoly on trading such resources on the world market was increasingly at risk.<\/p>\n
The course of the war suggests that Putin misjudged the readiness of the capitalist classes and governments in Ukraine and the West to allow this monopoly to be extended.<\/p>\n
The whole scenario illustrates perfectly the Socialist Party\u2019s argument that wars in capitalism are caused by competition for global domination of resources, markets and trade routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-250048","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/250048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}