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UKRAINE: NO TO THE PROPAGANDA WAR, SENDING OF WEAPONS AND USA-NATO-EUROPEAN UNION SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA! Withdrawal of Italian troops and weapons from every country! For a workers’ front against the imperialist ranks! Hundreds of thousands of men in arms massed in trenches and bunkers along the icy Ukrainian borders with Russia and Belarus, military exercises with hundreds of tanks, arms supplies from the USA, Britain, soldiers sent from France and Eastern European countries to Romania and Bulgaria, Russian semi-ultimatums and threats of “proportionate” mega-sanctions, recall of diplomats’ families to Kiev, European knife-brothers trailing the US-NATO in diplomatic meetings with the Russians over the heads of the Ukrainian bourgeoisie itself – all of this, of course, to “safeguard peace” … Is this an effective war in the Ukrainian theatre, or is it its theatrical representation? Chancelleries’ eyes are fixed on Vladimir Putin’s inscrutable ones. Even the Stock Exchanges do not know whether to go down or up, and paradoxically the Kiev Stock Exchange, which is about to be bought by Hong Kong Chinese, is more sober than the European ones and Wall Street. Whatever Putin’s plans, fresh from the trophy for the brutal repression of the Kazakh workers, and those of the other players, we know where to stand: against war, against imperialism at our home first of all, and against all imperialist camps (it is simplistic to see only two), for class unity and internationalist solidarity among workers, Russian, Ukrainian, Italian and European, American and worldwide. Is it the territory of the Donbass that is at stake? Is it the government of Ukraine and its geopolitical orientation, its entry or not into NATO? Is it the increasing deployment of NATO forces on the borders of Russia and Belarus? Or is it the division of the European front, and the position of Germany, divided internally between Atlantic ‘loyalty’ and growing economic and financial ties with China and Russia? Or is it, as others in the West are calling for, temporarily strengthening US/NATO positions and then giving Ukraine as a pawn to Russia to detach it from the Chinese embrace and concentrate forces against Beijing? The game is very complex, played out by the different imperialisms on the world chessboard, each one pursuing its own goals, and it also involves internal divisions within the camps (the USA demanding that Germany gives up the gas of Nord Stream 2, Germany opposing the exclusion of Russia from the international financial circuit SWIFT and opposing sending arms to Kiev; Germany and France have vetoed the entry of Ukraine and Georgia into NATO), and within the countries themselves (in Germany, for example, the chief admiral of the German navy has been torpedoed for reaching out to Putin, but also in the US the anti-Chinese hawks are opposed to those of the old Cold War). On both sides of the front, diplomatic moves are supported by military ones, and vice-versa, and nothing can guarantee that sooner or later weapons will not be called upon to replace diplomatic intrigues and frustrate economic sanctions by creating new factual situations. The final outcome will probably be what no single player intended, it will reflect the rapidly changing balance of power, it may lead to changes in the imperialist alignments themselves. Every prediction made today is bound to be proved wrong. Only two things are certain: ideologies are just smoke that hides the interests of each contender: the “democratic nations” do not give a damn about the “popular will” of the Ukrainians, Ukrainian-speaking as well as Russian-speaking; for them as for the “authoritarian” nations, Ukraine with its 45 million inhabitants is…
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[UKRAINE] No to propaganda war, sending of weapons and Usa-Nato-European Union sanctions against Russia (eng -ita)