SKIDELSKY - 4 YEARS LATER....THE UKRAINE WAR

 


'We remember our war dead as having given their lives for freedom; the Germans remember theirs as victims of tragedy. Yet the soldiers on both sides fought equally bravely. Russian troops have also fought bravely in the Ukraine war, but we are never, or rarely, asked to admire their bravery, because their cause is deemed evil..........A few of us, in this country, as well as on the Continent of Europe and in the USA, have been calling for a negotiated peace almost from the day the war started. We have resisted the comparison between Putin and Hitler. We have simply been cancelled. Nothing must be allowed which will weaken the national resolve to stand by Ukraine. Press self-censorship and disinformation in this proxy war have equalled, and even exceeded, that during the ‘real’ war against Hitler. Now Donald Trump has broken up the united front. Russia, he says, was not the cause (or at least the only cause) of this ‘unnecessary’ war. And for that he has been excoriated by all right-thinking people in our part of the world.'



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