The Left and Military Aid to Ukraine
An exchange between two Jacobin writers on the question of military aid to Ukraine.
Ukrainian servicemen ride on an armored presonnel carrier (APC) during an exercise not far from the second-largest Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on April 30, 2022. (Sergey Bobok / AFP via Getty Images)
Jacobin contributor Gilbert Achar and staff writer Branko Marcetic debate whether the Left should support sending military aid to Ukraine.
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Dear comrades,
It is sufficient to look at the titles of most of the articles on Ukraine and Russia that Branko Marcetic has published in Jacobin since the Ukraine crisis started peaking in February to see a common trend. “A US-Backed, Far Right-Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War” (February 2), “Turning Ukraine Into Another Afghanistan Would Be a Disastrous Idea” (March 8), “Persecuting Ordinary Russians Won’t End Putin’s War” (March 14), “Fighting Putin With Putinism” (March 17), “What the Left’s Critics Ignore About Military Solutions to Ukraine” (March 27), “Whitewashing Nazis Doesn’t Help Ukraine” (April 7), “The Biden Administration Fed the Press Dubious Intelligence About Russia” (April 8), “Holding Putin Accountable Would Require an Actual Rules-Based World Order” (April 11), and “The US Has No Idea Where Its Ukrainian Military Aid Is Going” (April 21).