The West (NATO) is clearly more involved than just ‘giving Ukraine some weapons’. It’s a proxy war all right. Doesn’t mean that it’s wrong for the West to be waging it, tactically. Would a full-on NATO war with Russia over Ukraine be preferable? Obviously not.
Dan Webster
1 year ago
Hmm. Looking forward to reading the longer form version of this in Marxist Review in which Philip can expand in more detail on reviving proletarian political consciousness in order to defeat the warmongering Western elites. It is reassurong that there is yet another generation of brave academics willing to consider these points in the face of such scorn from their bourgeois opposition. Vive la University of Kent Politics Department.
David Giles
1 year ago
Well said Mike Doyle. This tripe is becoming monotonous. It doesn’t seem to matter what colour flag the Czar flies, his useful idiots here in Britain will always parrot his line.
Mike Doyle
1 year ago
Some who worked for the Soviets did so for money, others were just useful idiots…plus ça change
And let’s not forget General Ludendorff, the brilliant geopolitical strategist who made it all possible. An American geopolitical expert, Charles R. Morris, once said to me in an awkward meeting where he’s been caught out on something, that our opponents were “too smart for their own good.” The problem with geopolitical types is that they’re too smart for our own good.
martin logan
1 year ago
Always good to ignore the country where the very opposite has occurred–and thus spoil the cliche.
Ukraine is winning because it made all males across a very wide spectrum liable for the draft. They responded quite well.
Successful mobilization comes when the country really is in danger. Just now what we need are plans to get through the winter, not more troops.
Genuine threats to the Homeland will likely see volunteers. Protecting one’s home and neighbours is still part of human nature.
Dominic A
1 year ago
Sounds like someone, a member of an academic elite perhaps, could do with de-politicising his story.
Andrew Boughton
1 year ago
Very accurate. Except that there are enthusiastic crowds cheering on the excitement of war, and just like in WW I they’re the stay-home armchair warriors feeling utterly blessed with real-life video war games. Hallelujah, it ups the ante and makes the game so much “more real.” Until of course the energy shortage and economics hits home. But only if you’re European, the Americans can still sit back and enjoy the Greek video-tragedy.
Guy Pigache
1 year ago
Perhaps the author would care to live in the Ukraine or have some Ukrainian refugees living with him.
joe hardy
1 year ago
The war mongering elite in the U.S.is comprised of Alexandria occasio cortez and Randy Weingarten. Not exactly the warlords you may be looking for.
Alex Forbes
1 year ago
Well done the Editor in posting at the top a photo of the true author of this piece.
Aaron James
1 year ago
This War was is amazingly popular – even though it is utterly wrong to be involved in it.
So how could this have happened, why would the West do such a immensely great self harm? MSM and Social Media backed the government agenda. The government fallowed their controllers who want to suck $Trillions out of the pensions and savings of the Middle and Working classes and asset strip the Stock Market, the Bond Market, and the Treasuries. They want all small business to fail so only the huge corporations survive.
See how your UK Pensions almost crashed? See Inflation? This is pure money flying from your pocket to the pocket of the Global Elite.
.
It is putting Russia – who were always a huge break on China with their 1000 mile land border – it is putting Russia and all the commodity producers (Oil, Mineral, Metals) into a cartel with China.
An Expert I heard said $8 Trillion damage has been done thus far…..Lots more to come before the next couple winters are past.
Make Peace you evil warmongers. Biden could get Zalenski to the table anytime – but this is what is wanted, this war – and it is destroying Ukraine in the process, but it is not about them anyway – it is about the New World Order – what else could it be?
I await with interest a strategy to draw the Russian masses into politics, to check their war-mongering elite.
“West’s stoking of a proxy war”
By stoking I assume you mean giving Ukraine some weapons with which to defend itself from a murderous invasion?
The West (NATO) is clearly more involved than just ‘giving Ukraine some weapons’. It’s a proxy war all right. Doesn’t mean that it’s wrong for the West to be waging it, tactically. Would a full-on NATO war with Russia over Ukraine be preferable? Obviously not.
Hmm. Looking forward to reading the longer form version of this in Marxist Review in which Philip can expand in more detail on reviving proletarian political consciousness in order to defeat the warmongering Western elites. It is reassurong that there is yet another generation of brave academics willing to consider these points in the face of such scorn from their bourgeois opposition. Vive la University of Kent Politics Department.
Well said Mike Doyle. This tripe is becoming monotonous. It doesn’t seem to matter what colour flag the Czar flies, his useful idiots here in Britain will always parrot his line.
Some who worked for the Soviets did so for money, others were just useful idiots…plus ça change
And let’s not forget General Ludendorff, the brilliant geopolitical strategist who made it all possible. An American geopolitical expert, Charles R. Morris, once said to me in an awkward meeting where he’s been caught out on something, that our opponents were “too smart for their own good.” The problem with geopolitical types is that they’re too smart for our own good.
Always good to ignore the country where the very opposite has occurred–and thus spoil the cliche.
Ukraine is winning because it made all males across a very wide spectrum liable for the draft. They responded quite well.
Successful mobilization comes when the country really is in danger. Just now what we need are plans to get through the winter, not more troops.
Genuine threats to the Homeland will likely see volunteers. Protecting one’s home and neighbours is still part of human nature.
Sounds like someone, a member of an academic elite perhaps, could do with de-politicising his story.
Very accurate. Except that there are enthusiastic crowds cheering on the excitement of war, and just like in WW I they’re the stay-home armchair warriors feeling utterly blessed with real-life video war games. Hallelujah, it ups the ante and makes the game so much “more real.” Until of course the energy shortage and economics hits home. But only if you’re European, the Americans can still sit back and enjoy the Greek video-tragedy.
Perhaps the author would care to live in the Ukraine or have some Ukrainian refugees living with him.
The war mongering elite in the U.S.is comprised of Alexandria occasio cortez and Randy Weingarten. Not exactly the warlords you may be looking for.
Well done the Editor in posting at the top a photo of the true author of this piece.
This War was is amazingly popular – even though it is utterly wrong to be involved in it.
So how could this have happened, why would the West do such a immensely great self harm? MSM and Social Media backed the government agenda. The government fallowed their controllers who want to suck $Trillions out of the pensions and savings of the Middle and Working classes and asset strip the Stock Market, the Bond Market, and the Treasuries. They want all small business to fail so only the huge corporations survive.
See how your UK Pensions almost crashed? See Inflation? This is pure money flying from your pocket to the pocket of the Global Elite.
.
It is putting Russia – who were always a huge break on China with their 1000 mile land border – it is putting Russia and all the commodity producers (Oil, Mineral, Metals) into a cartel with China.
An Expert I heard said $8 Trillion damage has been done thus far…..Lots more to come before the next couple winters are past.
Make Peace you evil warmongers. Biden could get Zalenski to the table anytime – but this is what is wanted, this war – and it is destroying Ukraine in the process, but it is not about them anyway – it is about the New World Order – what else could it be?
Indeed.
Doubtless World Capital bribed Putin to invade.
Their tentacles are everywhere.
And it ‘s so much easier than trying to understand Putin’s Russia or Ukraine.
You’ve got a problem? World Capital is to blame!
No, I think its a conspiracy between Elvis, a DNA reformed Hereward The Wake, and the granson of Sir Clement Attlee’s pet hamster Cadwallader.