The Progressive March 6, 2025 (Please share widely)
While concurring that the outrage over Trump’s support for Putin is quite appropriate, Zunes notes how administrations of both parties have supported invasions and occupations when the aggressor has been an ally, thereby weakening our ability to stand up to Russian aggression. His earlier articles on Ukraine include:
- Getting Ukraine’s History Right Is Crucial for Anti-Imperialist Politics, Truthout Feb. 28, 2024: . Ten years after Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution, what should the left make of it? Zunes looks back at the 2014 popular uprising in Ukraine against the Yanukovych regime. While not uncritical of U.S. policy, he challenges the Russian line that the pro-democracy Maidan revolution was some kind of U.S. coup.
- The Peace Chronicle The Magazine of the Peace and Justice Studies Association Fall 2022: Reflections written soon after the 2022 invasion.