Ukraine: the proxy fallacy
According to Putin cronies such as Sergei Markov, the Kremlin is not fighting a war against a Ukrainian nation seeking to preserve it’s independence. What’s going on instead is a “proxy war” between Russia and NATO. The Ukrainian fighters are merely “stooges” acting at the behest primarily of US imperialism. Sadly this slander that Ukrainians fighting against enslavement by Putin’s gangster state are nothing more than NATO dupes has credence amongst elements on the left, some of whom ought to know better. The notion of “proxy war” is familiar to those who were around at the time of the Vietnam...