Guest post by Jonathan Gallant

Below: an excerpt from an article  in the Democratic Socialists of America website:

We should support an immediate cease fire, large-scale humanitarian aid, global support for rebuilding Ukraine, and negotiations to  achieve a compromise settlement of what is an underlying conflict between the United States and Russian  imperialist interests.   In a future socialist world there should be no role for spheres of interest for large  countries. However, in the capitalist world we live in,  a viable settlement of this conflict  would have to accept Russia’s right to have security guarantees in its neighborhood. A Ukraine  settlement that includes neutrality for Ukraine along with U.S. and Russian guarantees of  Ukraine’s independence and security could avert further bloodshed and bring some stability to  the region. 

 The Left should continue to point out the role of U.S. imperialism in pushing a NATO  expansion policy that was bound to lead to a costly and dangerous conflict, while also  noting the responsibility of U.S. imperialism for its role in creating the retrograde oligarchic Putin  regime that severely oppresses its own working class while also imposing a deadly war on  working people in neighboring Ukraine.

So, the DSA charges the United States with: (a) the transparently false pretext the Putin regime uses for its imperial aggression against Ukraine; and (b) the even more far-fetched accusation of creating the Putin regime itself.  Unaccountably,  DSA fails to denounce the US for the failure of the USSR, the drying up of the Aral Sea, and the dismal weather of Siberia.    We can expect these accusations from another groupuscule,  Democratic Flat-Earthers of America.  DFEA will no doubt also proclaim “resistance” against airlines, shipping companies, and academic Geography departments for their adherence to the view that planet earth is round.