{"id":120011,"date":"2024-03-23T08:15:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T08:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/?p=120011"},"modified":"2024-03-24T07:30:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T07:30:58","slug":"atrocity-in-moscow-hep-strikes-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2024\/03\/23\/atrocity-in-moscow-hep-strikes-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Atrocity in Moscow, HEP strikes in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

After two Russia posts in a row, on media coverage of Vladimir Putin’s election victory<\/b><\/strong><\/a> <\/b>and on Russia’s return to great power status<\/strong><\/a>, I’d thought to write a third on that subset of Russia’s critics – including but not confined to many on the Marx-Leninist Left – which agrees she was provoked over Ukraine and much besides, but condemns the invasion of February 2022 while maintaining a deafening silence on alternative paths the Kremlin could and therefore should have taken in response to those provocations.<\/p>\n

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With that post written, I told myself, I could turn my attention to the subject, neglected on this site since October 7, of warmongering provocations in the South China Sea by America and its vassals<\/del> allies. Without, of course, completely taking my eye off Ukraine and Gaza.<\/p>\n

But that was yesterday. Since then two things – three if we include Kremlin spokesman\u00a0Dmitry Peskov’s not insignificant claim that what had been a special military operation, its objectives reiterated in my post yesterday<\/a><\/strong>, is now a war – have happened:<\/p>\n