TMLU: US has no right to give lessons to Putin on invasions

 This is from a TMLU leaflet:

The U.S. Has No Right to Give Lessons to Putin on Invasions  

The U.S. has invaded scores of countries just since World War II. It was only last year that it was forced to withdraw after its 20-year invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. It invaded and occupied Iraq, leading to immense destruction in that country. It supports Saudi Arabia in its bombing of Yemen, Israel in its occupation of Palestinian territory and India in its occupation of Kashmir. It has carried out countless coups in Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. US and NATO carried out an 89-day bombing of Yugoslavia. NATO’s bombing of Libya and the overthrow of Gaddafi led to the introduction of slavery in that country. The US wars in Vietnam and Korea lead to the deaths of millions in those countries. And if we go further back, the US repeatedly occupied Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and repeatedly invaded Mexico. The US war with Spain in 1898 led to the occupation of the Philippines, with millions killed, and the continued colonization of Puerto Rico, Guam and Samoa. Yet Biden wants to attack Putin for his invasion of Ukraine.  

That having been said, this is no longer a unipolar world, where the US can control everything. Its main rivals are Russia and China. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is part of an inter-imperialist rivalry that can lead to World War III.  

Azov Battalion: US friends in Ukraine

In this rivalry, all progressive forces in the US must concentrate our fire against our own ruling class. It was the US that orchestrated the 2014 coup that established a nationalist, neo-fascist regime in Ukraine. Victoria Nuland, then Assistant Secretary of State, boasted that the US spent $5 billion dollars to instigate the coup. This regime has spent eight years bombarding the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, killing some 14,000 people there. The US is also using the war to strengthen its hold over its European allies, particularly Germany. And Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has given Germany an excuse to not open the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. This will increase oil and gas prices not only for people in Europe, but for us in the US as well – oil is already selling for over $4 a gallon.  

Putin’s invasion will push the people of the Ukraine further into the arms of the neo-fascist regime in Kiev, and push the people of the Donbass into the arms of Putin.  

Down with the Inter-Imperialist War!  

No Support to the Neo-Fascist Ukrainian Government!  

Down with NATO!  

Russia Out of Ukraine!