Russia Ukraine war, page-1634

The International Committee of the Fourth International and the World Socialist Web Site denounce the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.

In the two major statements that he has made during the past week, Putin has justified his actions by enumerating the provocations and crimes of the United States.
There is much that is factually true in his denunciation of Washington’s hypocrisy.

But the viciously anti-communist and xenophobic ideology that he invokes and the interests that he claims to be defending are thoroughly reactionary and incapable of appealing to the broad mass of the working class in Russia, let alone in Ukraine and throughout the world.

The Biden administration, by refusing to discuss Russia’s objections to Ukraine’s integration into NATO, used Ukraine as bait. It incited the invasion, which will now be used as a pretext for escalating confrontation with Russia.

The present confrontation with Russia is the outcome of a geopolitical strategy pursued by the United States since the dissolution of the USSR 30 years ago. Its aim has been US global hegemony, using military power to offset economic decline.
This has been the source of the numerous and unending series of wars launched by the US, involving the invasion and/or bombing of Iraq, Somalia, Serbia, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. Of course, this history of illegal wars goes unmentioned in the media today.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/02/25/pers-f25.html