OPINION: Why Ukrainians should support Palestinians
Doesnāt 
have its hands full right now?
The author is saying that Ukrainian people should sympathise with Palestinian people.
While Ukraineās official position is dictated by pragmatic diplomatic considerations, Ukrainian civil society is not obliged to echo its governmentās silence on Israelās punitive operation against Gaza.
Israelās injustices in Palestine, as well as Russiaās in Ukraine, go far beyond mere failure to respect the laws of war. Ukrainians rightly repeat that Russiaās war against the Ukrainian people did not begin on 24 February 2022. It has occupied part of Ukraine since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, and the colonisation by the Russian Empire of the peoples who inhabit Ukrainian territories dates back to the 17th century.
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The evil that has killed both Israeli and Palestinian civilians in recent days is rooted in the continued occupation and colonisation by Israel of the Palestinian territories. In this sense, the oppression of the Ukrainian and Palestinian peoples has similarities: it is about the occupation of our lands by states with nuclear weapons and overwhelming military force, which mock the resolutions of the UN and international law, putting their causes above any diplomatic dialogue.
As Ukrainians, as supporters of the Ukrainian cause, we have a special responsibility to understand and raise our voices in the face of what is happening. We must point out the inconsistencies of Western governments that support our anti-imperialist struggle while backing Israelās colonial violence. The tragedy we are currently experiencing must sharpen our sensitivity to similar human experiences.
Ukraine war: Russia hits most settlements in one day, says Kyiv
Accompanying 9-page essay by the general on how things got this way and what might break the balance:
Criminals and sanctions-busters exploiting UK secrecy loophole
War profiteers gotta profit:
Russiaās recent focus on shelling towns looks set to have them killing above 10,000 civilians since the start of the invasion. Rookie numbers obvs, Israel can hit that in just a month.
Logan Roy summed it up in Succession, gesturing to a grand country home:
Look at this fucking place ā¦ Refined? Ha! Slaves, cotton, sugarā¦ This country is nothing but an off-shore laundry for turning evil into hard currencyā¦
I am not sure any āadvancedā western economy is in much of a position to look down on the UK on this case. I know we arenāt.
Credit is due for being the pioneer, though. And of course Logan himself is a contemptible American right-wing billionaire who canāt help following it up with his own racism:
And now it just lies here, living off its capital sucking in immigrants to turn it and stop it getting bed sores.
āLibertarianism with Russian Characteristics.ā
ā¦ wasnāt that the whole plan though?
What else did capitalists want people to live off 
I think itās very unlikely that Western govts would try to force Ukraine to cede any of its territory to Russia. The sovereignty/territorial integrity principles are too important for their conception of international order (as long as you ignore Kosovo).
What does she mean there (the Kosovo part)? 
Western governments uphold the principle of territorial integrity in the case of Ukraine but ignored it when they recognised Kosovoās independence from Serbia.
I get that, but that assumes that the only people who get a say in how their state should look are Serbs, not Albanians who make up the majority of the population in Kosovo - who were facing down a wave of genocide had the conflict persisted. It assumes that there is some magical national lines that are ācorrectā rather than an ever-changing movement of boundaries that address the changing nature of states in the first place (since nation-states are made up things). After all, nation-states are modern inventions and pretty much all the boundaries we think of as ācorrectā are pretty new, historically speaking. That whole region was riven by empires up to the early 19th century and slowly became nation-states (very bloodily, with western backing to help destroy the āterrible turkā), and the current set of boundaries were set during most of our lifetimes. The boundaries of what is Serbia as we think of it today emerged in the 90s - what is considered āSerb landsā has fluctuated for decades since the 19th century and was always highly contested by other ethnic groups in the regionā¦ The reality is that the whole of the Balkans has always been highly diverse area, with regards to religion, linguistic groups, and identity formation. A national identity is a rather modern invention and often imposed from above by elites educated in the westā¦ 
Soā¦ yeah, maybe the west is ignoring Serbian claims to Kosovo, based on some dodgy history, but the majority of the population voted to be independent.
