We are in the third month since the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army. ---
In the third month of a war that has already cost more than three thousandcivilians dead and has led more than eight million people to flee. The war inUkraine surprised many. --- Especially those who perceive state movements only asforeign policy forces, without an internal class sign on the one hand and thosewho have not yet understood that Europe is not the center of the world. But let'sstart from the beginning. --- Military intervention abroad is not foreign to anymodern state that has the internal cohesion and the means to attempt it. --- Thestate of Russia is anything but an exception to the rule.A few years earlier, the Russian army had reached as far as outside of Tbilisi,Georgia, to safeguard the interests of the Russian capitalists, and in the"civil" war with the Chechen separatists, it did not hesitate to take a bloodbathto avoid secession. Perhaps one would have to devote an entire chapter to theways and conditions in which the Russian military has an active presence, fromAfrica to the depths of Asia. Based on the above, it is easy to understand thatone of the reasons for the Russian invasion is exemplary: Any move that deniesthat it considers Russian capital and state as its "vital space" is suppressed.And this, first and foremost, applies to the internal enemy, but we will returnto that later.The "other side", the Ukrainian elite and its allies, has no trace of innocence.We live in an age where the hybrid of liberal / social democratic government byexploiting fascist and nationalist groups tends to become universal, at least forthe so-called Western world. From Orban's Hungary to Law and Order Poland and theGreece of the Syrizanels and the fascist reserve clubs and the ATHEX, thenational alliance around an economic dictatorship needs the iron fascist fist onthe road to impose discipline in naughty populations. A court jester as a pretextfor petty-bourgeois and bourgeois national unity at the head of the governmentand the neo-Nazi Azov battalions on the street is the Ukrainian version of theabove model. The support that this formation receives from the whole spectrum ofpolitical governance, for example in the European Union, from Social Democrats,Greens, Neoliberals and Christian Democrats, shows that the boundaries ofbourgeois governance and fascist exploitation are many times clearer than theyseem. or they want to believe - the devotees of parliamentarism. The internaldynamics of an emerging ruling class that found itself, after the collapse of theUSSR, more "free" to exploit Ukraine's vast natural and human resources led tothis model of government. Useful model to -first and foremost- suppress anyinternal claims, staining her hands in the blood of the unions in Odessa in 2014and the ethnic cleansing she imposed in the eastern provinces. A rather ordinarystory about the birth of many modern European states. This internal ethnic /social cleansing on the one hand and the external support and assistance from theNATO assassins, on the other hand, is not, after all, the short history of theestablishment of the modern Greek state after '45?However, all these internal dynamics and their externalities do not take place ina vacuum. The "international environment", the constant and ruthless war rivalryof giant multinational corporations and states around the world, is at a criticaljuncture. The ongoing and incurable capitalist crisis, which we are living in itslast phase from 2008 onwards, shrinks and devalues any capitalist development ata rate never before seen in history. Huge states and capitals collide inunprecedented and hybrid ways across the length and breadth of the earth. Fromthe social war on the occasion of the Covid-19 pandemic and the manipulatedenergy crisis to the return of the "iron curtain" and the "cold war" the world aswe knew it is sinking into an unconditional decline. Decline and decay thatreproduces and expands the dominant Western model of capitalist development. Amodel that, in order to survive, has plunged into the blood of millions ofpopulations and dozens of countries. From the troubled Palestine and Iraq toSyria and Yemen, to name just a few in recent years, it would take volumes torecord the NATO crimes and wars directly instigated or unleashed by the"civilized Western world." . In this scenario, a number of countries with alarger China appear as "competitors and successors" of American sovereignty. Butthe division of the planet into two different aggressive and capitalist blocs isfirst and foremost a false and ideological mechanism of manipulation that isexploited to the fullest by the rulers in each state. Returning to the war inUkraine, the constant threat of war "from the east", from China and Russia, isused by the Western elites to crush any social resistance, to incorporate intotheir national narrative any opposition, to prepare ideologically and politicallyfor "coming uprising", failing to meet the basic human needs of more and morepopulations. In exactly the same way that the NATO threat equips Russia'sinternal war machine to more easily suppress the courageous anti-war movementthere. In the same way that the imminent accession of Finland and Sweden to NATOfirst of all ensures the internal defense of the ruling classes there, with thelatest example being the just uprising of immigrants last month. In the same waythat our local bastards use it ...The war in Ukraine is a huge new opportunity for the Greek ruling class as well.The "successful management", in military terms, of the Covid-19 epidemic, thesuppression of basic collective rights without real resistance, the over thirtythousand dead and the further dismantling of the health system for the poorwithout a mass and kinematic response, has whetted the appetite of the Greekrulers. The successful implementation, in essence, of anti-insurgency methods fortwo consecutive years gives the necessary confidence to the Greek war machine toparticipate in any war that may spread.Even before the Ukrainian crisis, he was involved, and even outside NATO, in themassacre in Yemen with the Patriot mission and personnel in Saudi Arabia, whilehe also planned to send a mass military mission to Mali, Africa. Today it isgaining points from the bloody conflict by turning the port of Alexandroupolisinto a hub of war and energy supply for all countries near the Baltic. But alsoby activating the NATO base of the city as a point from where most of the spyflights of movement control of the Russian troops take place. Greek capital winsdouble with the war in Ukraine. On the one hand, the Greek shipowners have thelion's share in the transportation of the very expensive and anti-environmentalliquefied gas produced in the USA and Canada in the context of the West's energydependence on Russian gas and oil. At the same time, in fact, it is the sameGreek shipowners who are breaking, in essence, the European embargo on Russianoil and gas by transporting tons daily. This is the reason why the Greek stateblocked on the one hand the 6th package of EU sanctions. to Russia so thatshipowners can continue to transport fuel smoothly but, on the other hand, isconstantly adding fuel to the fire by supporting, even with weapons, theUkrainian elite. In this way, the Greek shipowners seek to perpetuate the war inUkraine that they so desperately need. That is why the participation of the Greekarmed forces in the conflict in Ukraine is so active. In addition to thewell-known story of the "humanitarian aid" mission, which eventually turned outto be Stinger missiles, multiple RM-70 launchers and confiscated Kalashnikovs,the Greek state is discussing sending 130 BMP-1 vehicles, TOR-M1 anti-aircraftsystems, up to S300 to Ukraine. all made in Russia on the grounds that they willnot be upgraded / maintained so easily anymore and that they will be replaced bythose of the western armaments industry. The decision has already been made tosend Greek soldiers and ammunition to the NATO Rapid Reaction Force (NRF) inRomania and Bulgaria. We have already mentioned the conversion of the base ofAlexandroupolis into "Souda tou north" as the head of GEETHA called it, which wasaccompanied, in fact, by a visit of high-ranking American soldiers toThessaloniki, rekindling rumors about the activation of the city's NATOheadquarters. Finally, the MQ-9 type spy drones take off from Larissa, whichcontrol the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, with their latest "success" beingthe participation in locating the flagship of the Russian fleet that was sunk bythe Ukrainian forces. We understand that, already, the Greek army is stuck up toits neck (and) in this war, while it has an appetite for greater involvement. ForGreece, war management of populations is not something foreign. The opposite infact. The war against immigrants with peaks in 2017 and the Greece-Turkey-EUagreement and their categorization as " that is, prisons for people whose onlycrime is the search for a viable life, is a model of war management that isalready happening. The thousands killed in the Aegean and Evros by the attacks offascist groups, the Greek army, the Coast Guard and Frontex, the manhuntpushbacks and the overturning of boats are war crimes. A declared war againstpopulations that "surplus" for capitalist needs and therefore, for them do notexist and do not deserve to exist. that is, prisons for people whose only crimeis the search for a viable life, is a model of war management that is alreadyhappening. The thousands killed in the Aegean and Evros by the attacks of fascistgroups, the Greek army, the Coast Guard and Frontex, the manhunt pushbacks andthe overturning of boats are war crimes. A declared war against populations that"surplus" for capitalist needs and therefore, for them do not exist and do notdeserve to exist. manhunt pushbacks and boat caps are war crimes. A declared waragainst populations that "surplus" for capitalist needs and therefore, for themdo not exist and do not deserve to exist. manhunt pushbacks and boat caps are warcrimes. A declared war against populations that "surplus" for capitalist needsand therefore, for them do not exist and do not deserve to exist.What to do;Ukraine is now the site of utter destruction. Mariupol and Kharkiv have beenleveled. Millions of people have become refugees, thousands have been injured,they have lost their own people or their physical integrity. Hundreds have beenraped, tortured. They have all been terrorized. Ukraine is the place where thenationalist nightmare came true. In an area where everyone could speak a commonlanguage and communicate, with a common religion, common customs, commonpolitical life for decades, the interests of the rulers, both in Kyiv and in theKremlin, managed to disintegrate social unity. , wanting to impose a fictitiousnational. Ukraine is the ultimate "success" of national solidarity. Those whodream of nationally "clean" places, those who demand "Greece to the Greeks" anddiscover Turkish threats to the babies of immigrants have this nationalsolidarity in mind. This national solidarity, however, is also borne in mind bythose who want cemetery societies in the face of "Turkish aggression" and at thesame time demand "combatants of the Greek army".If Ukraine has taught us anything, it is that in order to tackle nationalism,racism and, ultimately, war, great changes are needed on our part. And changes inpractice. If we want to put something in the opposite of the national statenarrative, this can not be another - also national and state - narrative withgreen or red flags. This is not another change of government. If we want toresist effectively we must take the first steps towards the formation of amovement whose bases will be multinational-internationalist, class and groundedin cities and neighborhoods. Multinational struggle communities: from grassrootsclass unions and neighborhood social assemblies to feminist groups and militantantifascism, are the only way if we want to build a different movement.An effective movement against the coming war, fighting against the war that isalready here. To the sirens that scream our submission to the Euro-Atlantic axisof the national narrative to oppose our refusal to all state and capitalist wars.To block the Greek war machine in every field of social life: from concentrationcamps to the socially excluded military research and the militarization of ourlives. Against the combat readiness of the Greek army to support any attempt tochallenge it. From the resistance movements in the camps by conscripts, to thetotal refusal of conscription and the abolition of compulsory service. To opposea multinational and inclusive culture of self-education against Greek Orthodoxeducation. To oppose the national culture of rape and the imposition of thestrong and the excellent to oppose a community of tolerance and radical composition.WAR IN THE WAR OF STATES AND CAPITALantiwar international movementhttps://ainfos.ca/gr/ainfos04150.html_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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