Europe

The war in Ukraine has drawn a clear line of divide among political forces on a global scale. The first line, strong among progressive forces in the Global South, and socialist or socialist oriented countries, rightly analyses that the fundamental cause of the war is the thirty-year-old US policy of aggressive expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe. The second line is in the imperialist/Global North countries, including unfortunately parts of the left, which supports NATO’s blaming of the war on Russia.

The overthrow of the democratically elected president of Ukraine in 2014 unleashed an assault on the rights of the Russian minority in Ukraine over the subsequent eight years.
This attack on the rights of the Russian minority in Ukraine became a state-sanctioned policy. Opposition to that policy was depicted as treachery and treated as such.