There's little or no evidence that the US government is conducting its war against Russia for the benefit of the working class of Ukraine, Russia or anywhere else. Strangely, none on the US side is quoting Vladimir Ilyich Lenin on Ukrainian self-determination:
"The C.C., R.C.P.(B.), having discussed the question of relations with the wor…
There's little or no evidence that the US government is conducting its war against Russia for the benefit of the working class of Ukraine, Russia or anywhere else. Strangely, none on the US side is quoting Vladimir Ilyich Lenin on Ukrainian self-determination:
"The C.C., R.C.P.(B.), having discussed the question of relations with the working people of the Ukraine now being liberated from the temporary conquest of Denikin’s bands, is pursuing persistently the principle of the self-determination of nations and deems it essential to again affirm that the R.C.P. holds consistently to the view that the independence of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic be recognized... We Great-Russian Communists must repress with the utmost severity the slightest manifestation in our midst of Great-Russian nationalism, for such manifestations, which are a betrayal of communism in general, cause the gravest harm by dividing us from our Ukrainian comrades and thus playing into the hands of Denikin and his regime."
(November 1919 draft resolution of the central committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik))
Given that the immediate response of the US and UK to the October Revolution - which led to the end of Ukraine's incorporation as vassal of the Russian Empire - was to invade Russia to restore the former regime, I doubt the motives of such ardent American imperialists as Joe Biden as well as those of the leader of Russia's oligarchs, Vladimir Putin who refers fondly to the feudalistic Great Power era of the Tsars.
No cheers at all for Biden or Putin. Three cheers for the international working class's own self-determination.
There's little or no evidence that the US government is conducting its war against Russia for the benefit of the working class of Ukraine, Russia or anywhere else. Strangely, none on the US side is quoting Vladimir Ilyich Lenin on Ukrainian self-determination:
"The C.C., R.C.P.(B.), having discussed the question of relations with the working people of the Ukraine now being liberated from the temporary conquest of Denikin’s bands, is pursuing persistently the principle of the self-determination of nations and deems it essential to again affirm that the R.C.P. holds consistently to the view that the independence of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic be recognized... We Great-Russian Communists must repress with the utmost severity the slightest manifestation in our midst of Great-Russian nationalism, for such manifestations, which are a betrayal of communism in general, cause the gravest harm by dividing us from our Ukrainian comrades and thus playing into the hands of Denikin and his regime."
(November 1919 draft resolution of the central committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik))
Given that the immediate response of the US and UK to the October Revolution - which led to the end of Ukraine's incorporation as vassal of the Russian Empire - was to invade Russia to restore the former regime, I doubt the motives of such ardent American imperialists as Joe Biden as well as those of the leader of Russia's oligarchs, Vladimir Putin who refers fondly to the feudalistic Great Power era of the Tsars.
No cheers at all for Biden or Putin. Three cheers for the international working class's own self-determination.