r/SocialistEurope

I hear liberals supporting giving weapons to Ukrainian state so that they can defend themselves. While the capitalist state of Ukraine, just like Russia, will send their working class to die on the front until they run out of people. After that, they will simply get soldiers from other countries, either by those countries sending them for their own intersts in the war or by hiring them as professional soliders.

Ukrainan state, like any other capitalist state, has interest different from its people and therefor have different objectives. Not to save the people, but to save the factories and coal mines, no matter how much lives of the working class it costs.

It matters little to the people who live in Ukraine what nationality the boss of their comany is, whether Russian state will take it from Ukranian capitalists and give it to Russian capitalists or wheather Ukrainain state will defend the European capital from the invasion.

People in Ukraine are rebeling against conscriptions, by using force against the state. They dont have elections, they dont have the choice to accept territory gain by Russia in Russian ethinc majority region of Ukraine. They dont want to die for someone elses property and giving them weapons wont save them, they will still be stationed in the battlefiled until they die.

We should arm both the ukranian and russian working class people so they can resist their states sending to capitalist wars. Don't fall for nationalist propaganda, it matters little what ethnicity someone is, the class is what determines whether you should see someone as an enemy or as an potential ally.