Last year’s elections saw a resurgence for Germany’s socialist party Die Linke. In an interview, coleader Ines Schwerdtner explains how the party is seeking to expand beyond current left-wing voters to reach broader parts of the working class.
Sanctions alone won’t stop a planned armed invasion by a well equipped aggressor with a large arms stockpile. All this big talk about more sanctions having more impact, while at the same time denying military aid in the name of “peace” is really just helping the Aggressor while pretending not to, because sanctions, even when implemented correctly, will take time to have an impact, and won’t affect existing stockpiles.
Without weapons delivered by the West, Ukraine likely wouldn’t exist anymore, because they didn’t have the massive cold war era stockpiles Russia can still tap into. Neither do they have the production capacity to keep up with their demand, even though they have created some by now.
If the West had given more military aid from the start, The attack could possibly have been stopped in its tracks, or even thrown back to where it came from. But unfortunately, the "peace"mongers prevailed and prevented giving Ukraine the proper means means to hit the Russian supply chains right away, in the name of “preventing escalation”. Long ranged weapons have only been delivered once Ukraine had built and used some of their own.
It is not “peace” if you give in to an imperialist aggressor. Even if the war ends after successful conquest.
Sanctions alone won’t stop a planned armed invasion by a well equipped aggressor with a large arms stockpile. All this big talk about more sanctions having more impact, while at the same time denying military aid in the name of “peace” is really just helping the Aggressor while pretending not to, because sanctions, even when implemented correctly, will take time to have an impact, and won’t affect existing stockpiles.
Without weapons delivered by the West, Ukraine likely wouldn’t exist anymore, because they didn’t have the massive cold war era stockpiles Russia can still tap into. Neither do they have the production capacity to keep up with their demand, even though they have created some by now.
If the West had given more military aid from the start, The attack could possibly have been stopped in its tracks, or even thrown back to where it came from. But unfortunately, the "peace"mongers prevailed and prevented giving Ukraine the proper means means to hit the Russian supply chains right away, in the name of “preventing escalation”. Long ranged weapons have only been delivered once Ukraine had built and used some of their own.
It is not “peace” if you give in to an imperialist aggressor. Even if the war ends after successful conquest.