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\u201cThe US aids Ukraine and her people so that we can fight Russia over there and we don\u2019t have to fight Russia here.\u201d So declared leading US Democrat Adam Schiff during the first Trump impeachment trial in 2020. That was two years before Russian troops invaded Ukraine!<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are no longer in an indirect war with Russia,\u201d wrote Thomas Friedman in the New York Times, \u201cbut rather edging toward a direct war.\u201d (5\/9\/22)<\/p>\n
So much for the imperialist lie that the war is about \u201cplucky little Ukraine defending itself from the bloodthirsty Russian bear.\u201d\u00a0 As Red Flag has said all along, the war is fundamentally between US imperialism and expansionist Russian capitalism.<\/p>\n
It is an imperialist war over control of energy resources and the geopolitical leverage such control brings. Over the redivision of Europe between larger global powers (Russia and the US) while Chinese imperialism positions itself to reap the greatest economic benefits.<\/p>\n
As the retired veteran US diplomat Chas Freeman put it, the West has been cynically saying, \u201cWe will fight to the last Ukrainian for Ukrainian independence.\u201d Except that it\u2019s not for Ukrainian independence. It\u2019s for US imperialist domination.<\/p>\n
Now the US media are letting out a little bit of the truth. \u201cThe United States and its NATO allies are engaged in a proxy war with Russia,\u201d former State Department official Eliot Cohen told The Atlantic.<\/p>\n
CNBC reassured its audience that \u201cit\u2019s outside the realm of possibility right now that there\u2019s going to be a nuclear war or World War III that really spills over that far beyond Ukraine\u2019s borders.\u201d Right now? What about tomorrow?<\/p>\n
Warren Buffett, a leading US capitalist, warned his investors that \u201cThe world is flipping a coin every day as to whether people who can literally destroy the planet as we know it will do it. And, unfortunately, the major problem is with people who have large stocks of nuclear weapons and ICBMs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have no solution for it,\u201d Buffett continued, \u201cand there isn\u2019t any solution.\u201d<\/p>\n
Capitalists cannot stop the massive destruction imperialism is already inflicting through its deadly wars and its profit-fueled climate catastrophe. But there IS a solution. It\u2019s in our hands \u2013 the hands of the international working class.<\/p>\n
We can\u2019t afford to wait and see whether full-scale World War III explodes now in Ukraine or later in the Pacific or somewhere else. We need to mobilize now for communist revolution as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
Things Are Changing Fast<\/strong><\/p>\n Workers can\u2019t live in the old way. As bad as it used to be, things keep getting worse.<\/p>\n Capitalists can\u2019t rule in the old way. Their crises, spiraling out of control, expose the viciously racist, sexist, anti-working-class dictatorship of the rich over the masses.<\/p>\n And when they mobilize masses for war, they risk losing control over those they send to kill and die for their profits.<\/p>\n This may be happening now with Russian troops in Ukraine. It\u2019s certainly what Ukrainian president Zelenskyy is trying to instigate by telling them, in Russian, to stop fighting and save their own lives.<\/p>\n The US propaganda magazine Newsweek reports Security Service of Ukraine claims to have intercepted phone calls revealing Russian troops rebelling against the generals, refusing to fight, or sabotaging their own tanks.<\/p>\n We can\u2019t confirm this, but it certainly happened a lot among US troops in Vietnam. And among Russian troops in 1917, who were key to overthrowing the Tsar and the capitalist democracy that came next.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s clearly a lot of dissent in Russia,\u201d says Freeman, \u201calthough I\u2019m sure it\u2019s being exaggerated by our media. The war is a fog of lies on all sides. It is virtually impossible to tell what is actually happening because every side is staging the show.\u201d<\/p>\n Rebellion and resistance show the potential for revolution but are not in themselves revolutionary. We need to fight FOR the communist world we really need. A world without borders or nations to go to war. Without money or profits to fight over. Without a wage system that enslaves the masses.<\/p>\n Our war is the class war: our fight is for communist workers\u2019 power.<\/p>\n If Red Flag readers are in contact with friends or family in Ukraine or Russia, please share information with us about what\u2019s going on there. And share Red Flag\u2019s<\/strong><\/em> communist vision with them.<\/p>\n Read our pamphlet: “Soldiers, Sailors, Marines Key to Communist Revolution”\u00a0 here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n US-Russia War in Ukraine:\u00a0 Only Communism Can Stop Imperialism\u2019s Mass Destruction \u201cThe US aids Ukraine and her people so that we can fight Russia over there and we don\u2019t have to fight Russia here.\u201d So declared leading US Democrat Adam Schiff during the first Trump impeachment trial in 2020. That was two years before Russian … Continue reading US-Russia Wars in Ukraine: Defeat All Imperialists with Communist Revolution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6495,"parent":10271,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10327","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10327"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10340,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10327\/revisions\/10340"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Front page of this issue<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"