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- Title
Stockholm Syndrome 2022: The Faustian Bargain of Left Militarism in Ukraine.
- Authors
Feldman, Jonathan
- Abstract
In sum, Ukraine's escalating move towards NATO has taken place over many years, even if Ukraine never joined NATO. NATO Expansionism Second, while the Left Party is opposed to NATO, its support for arms transfers to Ukraine can't be separated from a political trajectory of NATO expansionism towards Ukraine. It is not simply NATO that may have helped trigger NATO aggressions Murray reports, but "something else -- the bilateral US-Ukraine military relationship which could appear just as threatening viewed from Russia as full Ukrainian integration into the NATO alliance." On the Ukrainian side, the start of the circuit is the deepening of military cooperation with NATO, which itself may reflect Russian-backed military incursions into Ukraine, incursions associated with various Russian grievances such as maltreatment of Russian Ukrainians and a countermove to NATO's eastward expansion.
- Subjects
UKRAINE; MILITARISM; NO-fly zones; RUSSIAN invasion of Ukraine, 2022-; NEGOTIATION; RUSSIA-Ukraine Conflict, 2014-; SUICIDE bombings
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2022, p1
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article