Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is a desperate bid to assemble a 21st-century Russian Empire. It is also an oil war or more accurately, a war to steal Ukraine’s energy reserves. The czarist and Soviet communist Russian empires were largely self-sufficient entities possessing the resources and millions of people required to field powerful military […]
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Originally published on May 18, 2022 on internationalsocialist.net.
The Kremlin was hoping for a double celebration on May 9: to mark the Soviet Union’s victory in WW2, and the jubilant return of troops after a short victorious war in Ukraine. But it was not able to do so. It has neither ach