Lenin and the international working class fought their way to take control of Russia out of the hands of the capitalists and landlords. This was followed by the Stalinist bureaucracy’s brutal fight to take administrative control out of the hands of the working class.
Feel free to point to something you claim I cut & pasted. I can assure you I have read more books about the Soviet degeneration than almost anyone who is not a specialist in Soviet history. Again, forced collectivization and the forced-march industrialization were a frantic overcorrection to the laconic approach of “through the kulaks to socialism,” promoting the growth of private property, and avoiding the economic planning necessary for industrialization.
I withdraw my unfounded claim.
So based on that logic, the US should install nuclear weapons in Ukraine?
The U.S. and Ukraine aren’t workers’ states.
“History will absolve me.”-Fidel Castro
No it will not. -philfish
Nuclear sharing is a concept in NATO's policy of nuclear deterrence, which allows member countries without nuclear weapons of their own to participate in the planning for the use of nuclear weapons by NATO. In particular, it provides for the armed forces of those countries to be involved in delivering nuclear weapons in the event of their use.
en.wikipedia.org
Relevance?Nuclear sharing is a concept in NATO's policy of nuclear deterrence, which allows member countries without nuclear weapons of their own to participate in the planning for the use of nuclear weapons by NATO. In particular, it provides for the armed forces of those countries to be involved in delivering nuclear weapons in the event of their use.
As part of nuclear sharing, the participating countries carry out consultations and make common decisions on nuclear weapons policy, maintain technical equipment (notably nuclear-capable airplanes) required for the use of nuclear weapons and store nuclear weapons on their territory. In case of war, the United States has told NATO allies the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) would no longer be in effect.[1]
Nuclear sharing - Wikipedia
What does that have to do with defense against attack?
Will the next act of terror by the "Good Guys" top this one?
Is that you in the pic. Cool.Will the next act of terror by the "Good Guys" top this one?
"The destruction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline between Russia and Germany was a terror attack carried out by the US Navy, in a mission planned before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to a report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh published Wednesday."
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/02/09/ftaz-f09.html
That's a hired killed in the picture preparing for WWIII.
From a proletarian perspective it makes the defense of Cuba more urgent and therefore the use of drastic measures more understandable. Now Cuba turned out to find a way to defend itself without nuclear weapons (which the USSR was never gonna use to defend Cuba in the first place) and became stronger for it. But if the Soviets had used nuclear weapons as Castro wanted them to when Cuba was attacked in 1962, that may have been a moral failure based on the consequences (indeed, Castro later apologized for it); but it would not have been an infamous crime comparable to the U.S. using nuclear weapons to gain advantage over Japan in the struggle to dominate China. The working class has a stake in the military defense of Ukraine, but it is less. The introduction of nuclear weapons has the potential, in fact, to accelerate the fastening of an incipient secret-police dictatorship on Ukraine.
In 1961 the Bay of Pigs invasion was by Cubans. It was supported by the US, but did not involve the US military in combat. If the war against Kyiv was just Ukrainians with support from Russia it would be entirely different, but even the fighting from 2014 to 2022 involved Russian troops.
Japan knew surrender was their only option after Stalin honored his pledge made at Yalta in February 1945:
"b. They consulted with their American allies, who requested that they stop their advance at the 38th parallel, so that U.S. forces could in the next month occupy the rest of Korea. The Soviets agreed to the U.S. proposal.
The US bombed Hiroshima on August 6th and Nagasaki on August 9th.
Do you have a link?
I am not interested in relitigating the Korean war.
