Slava Ukraini!

The fact that Daily Kos has featured consistent coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine since before the Russian tanks actually rolled in a year ago, ...

For the U.S., the invasion of Iraq still generates a high cost when it comes to trying to justify actions in Ukraine or elsewhere. As it happens, the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine falls within a month of the 20th anniversary of the U.S. On that first day, what kos was talking about wasn’t just how the invasion would affect Iraq, or what it would do to the U.S. Yes, the population there was divided along religious lines and subject to impossible levels of suppression and corruption. Daily Kos began as a blog that fought daily against the idea of a U.S. This is where things can get really ugly, not necessarily in Iraq, but in the rest of the Arab world. There’s also no doubt that when people in some of these countries look at the team that is backing Ukraine, what they see isn’t some shining constellation of justice and democracy. The fact that Daily Kos has featured consistent coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine since before the Russian tanks actually rolled in a year ago, and that this coverage often includes encouraging the U.S. We follow Ukraine day by day, and we do everything we can to support the Ukrainian cause, because we believe now as we did 20 years ago, when this site was founded in the run-up to another invasion, that peace is not a state of idleness, or something achieved through ignoring wrongdoing. Again, that anyone, anywhere, could fail to see the falsity of Putin’s claims or the injustice of Russia’s actions is so baffling as to be infuriating. Glenn Greenwald may be nothing short of an asshole when he pretends to believe Russian conspiracy theories and champions the cause of a murderous dictator. How these Corbynites, Greenwaldians, and Hershists manage to convince themselves that the cause of justice lies with a brutal autocratic dictatorship destroying whole cities, creating torture chambers, and kidnapping children by the thousands to support a racist, homophobic, neo-fascist agenda is something I do not want to understand.