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A LEFTIST PLEA FOR NEW IMPERIALIST INTERVENTIONS

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Your subscriptions keep this page going, so if you have the means, and believe in paying for good writing, please do consider becoming a paid subscriber. The first two lines of the Ukrainian anthem are: “Ukrainian freedom has not yet perished, nor has her glory / Upon us, Ukrainian brothers, fate shall smile once more.” (The term “dolya” is not fate in the sense of predetermination, but more in the sense of a contingent lot, as in the poem “Dolya” by the Ukrainian classic Taras Shevchenko.) In the last weeks, especially after Russia started a new offensive north of Kharkiv, it is more and more becoming clear that fate is no longer smiling on Ukraine – so what are we do to when Ukraine is in such a predicament? First, who is the “we” here? Europeans? The last Eurovision spectacle displayed all the misery of what Europe is becoming – the political background was the only thing of minimal interest that happened in Malmo. Consequently, the entire event (inclusive of its “democratic” voting

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