The Democratic Socialists of America blamed US and NATO \u201cimperialist expansion\u201d for helping trigger the Russian invasion of Ukraine \u2014 provoking criticism from local political leaders.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cDSA reaffirms our call for the US to withdraw from NATO and to end the imperialist expansionism that set the stage for this conflict,\u201d the DSA said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhile the failures of neoliberal order are clear to everyone, the ruling class is trying to build a new world, through a dystopic transition grounded in militarism, imperialism, and war. Socialists have a duty to build an alternative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The socialist group continued that \u201cmuch of the next ten years are coming into view through this attack\u201d and closed by saying, \u201cno war but
class war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But note – fair and balanced –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The DSA did condemn Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and demanded immediate diplomacy and de-escalation to resolve this crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe stand in solidarity with the working classes of Ukraine and Russia who will undoubtedly bear the brunt of this war, and with antiwar protestors in both countries and around the world who are calling for a diplomatic resolution,\u201d the DSA said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They should have just made that statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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No surprise of course. Bernie Sanders is the most prominent member of the DSA. They did condemn the invasion. The Democratic Socialists of America blamed US and NATO \u201cimperialist expansion\u201d for helping trigger the Russian invasion of Ukraine \u2014 provoking criticism from local political leaders. \u201cDSA reaffirms our call for the US to withdraw from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11280,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/11280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}