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The last thing we need is a long war
There is no point in fantasising about a categorical defeat for Putin when even Zelensky has said that he isn't ready for Nato to use the Ukraine conflict to drain Russia — let's hope for a quick peace, writes ANDREW MURRAY
President Zelensky has now voiced concerns about Ukrainian lives being sacrificed to ‘exhaust’ Russia by some in Nato
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
TWO THINGS at least could be expected from the moment the Ukraine war began. First, there would be reports of atrocities committed by Russian troops. And second, that Putin’s apologists would seek to dismiss such accounts as a “false flag” operation.
The horrifying reports of the killing of civilians in Bucha and elsewhere are likely to prove true in essence, even if exaggerated in scope.
The fact is that all armies commit atrocities in wartime, particularly if they are operating in a hostile environment, as the Russian army clearly is. To assert, as the Russian Defence Ministry did, that “not a single civilian” had been harmed by its forces is absurd. It assumes that the Russian army is either uniquely decent or uniquely disciplined. There is little evidence for either proposition.
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SEVIM DAGDELEN asks why the European Union is targeting the Swiss academic Jacques Baud, cutting off his access to banking services
The federal government’s plans to finance the war in Ukraine with Russian assets, and a possible deployment of German troops, put the population in Germany in the highest danger, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
