I get that the situation in Ukraine probably really sucks now, and I don't want to be that critical of this guy, but this article really doesn't state anything. Like all he says is that the Ukrainian military needs to win, because if/when they lose Azov will probably take over, and therefore the west needs to give be writing the Ukrainian military blank checks for the foreseeable future. The US and Europe have sent Ukraine 30 billion dollars in military aid and they're still losing. And eventually they will lose this war.
His whole comparison to Vietnam is also way off the mark. Ukraine isn't fighting a war for independence and it isn't a colony of Russia. Trotsky's statement about Algeria makes some sense because that would have been an actual anti-colonialist war, and no matter how many times the NY Times and Jacobin say it, Ukraine and Russia just don't have the same relationship as France and Algeria. And besides, I don't know who this is being written for, is it to ensure that AOC keeps voting in favor of funding the war? Everyone in Congress is on board with this, and like maybe 5 of them read Jacobin.
I get that the situation in Ukraine probably really sucks now, and I don't want to be that critical of this guy, but this article really doesn't state anything. Like all he says is that the Ukrainian military needs to win, because if/when they lose Azov will probably take over, and therefore the west needs to give be writing the Ukrainian military blank checks for the foreseeable future. The US and Europe have sent Ukraine 30 billion dollars in military aid and they're still losing. And eventually they will lose this war.
His whole comparison to Vietnam is also way off the mark. Ukraine isn't fighting a war for independence and it isn't a colony of Russia. Trotsky's statement about Algeria makes some sense because that would have been an actual anti-colonialist war, and no matter how many times the NY Times and Jacobin say it, Ukraine and Russia just don't have the same relationship as France and Algeria. And besides, I don't know who this is being written for, is it to ensure that AOC keeps voting in favor of funding the war? Everyone in Congress is on board with this, and like maybe 5 of them read Jacobin.