Do I “support” the bourgeois Russian Federation, the product of a counter-revolutionary plot to overthrow the world’s first and oldest socialist state? Of course not.

Do I “support” Ukraine, also bourgeois and a product of the same counter-revolutionary plot, whose modern national identity has drawn heavily from reactionary anti-communist mythmaking, most egregiously the revival of the “double genocide” narrative despite the notion of a Ukrainian genocide having been long since debunked? Also no.

Do I support the West’s attempts to secure hegemony over key strategic resources in the Donbass and Crimea by fueling right-wing Ukrainian nationalist sentiment and throwing Ukrainian workers into the meat grinder of war? No.

Do I support the RF’s irredentist warmongering and invasions of Crimea and the Donbass for the same purposes of securing their own hegemony over said strategic resources? Also no.

Do I believe the propagandistic framing from both sides that this war has anything to do with freedom and sovereignty and helping the little guy fight the good fight against overwhelming odds? Of course not.

Do I believe that the Russian Federation are imperialists or that they aim to take over Europe? No. Do I believe that Ukraine is a fascist nation committing genocide against Russophones? Also no.

So what then do I believe? I have always believed that this conflict must come down to a diplomatic solution. I am entirely unconcerned as to whether or not Ukraine gets to keep its land. I don’t care which side controls it and I would much rather have the working class of both sides unite once again under the banner of socialism. In any case, I think this kind of bourgeois squabbling comes at the cost of human lives and is undesirable no matter which side you think is in the right. Neither side is fighting for the interests of the working class, and at times like these I would say “no war but the class war”.