David Mandel and I share much more in common than our given name. We’re both French-speaking Anglophones who live in Montréal. We both consider ourselves humanists who want to help build a kinder, more democratic and socialist world. But while reading Mandel’s August 2 piece in this publication, it became clear that we profoundly disagree on how to get there.
History explains the scale of the Russian military s destruction and the coordinated campaign to erase Ukrainian national identity and the Ukrainian state.