{"id":219289,"date":"2022-09-12T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=219289"},"modified":"2022-09-07T04:21:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T03:21:31","slug":"the-ukraine-proxy-war-has-been-a-propaganda-win-for-interventionists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/09\/the-ukraine-proxy-war-has-been-a-propaganda-win-for-interventionists\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ukraine Proxy War Has Been a Propaganda Win for Interventionists"},"content":{"rendered":"

6 Sep 2022 – <\/em>Neocon erotica publication The Atlantic<\/em> has a new article out titled \u201cThe Rise of the Liberal Hawks<\/a>\u201d which is infuriating as much for its sycophantic empire apologia as it is for the fact that much it is entirely correct.<\/p>\n

\u201cProgressives typically see war as inherently murderous and dehumanizing \u2014 sapping progress, curtailing free expression, and channeling resources into the \u2018military-industrial complex,\u2019\u201d sneers the article\u2019s author, Dominic Tierney. \u201cThe left led the opposition to the Vietnam War and the Iraq War and condemned American war crimes from the My Lai massacre to Abu Ghraib. Historically, progressive critics have charged the military with a litany of sins, including discrimination against LGBTQ soldiers and a reliance on recruiting in poor communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThen came Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine,\u201d writes Tierney. \u201cNo foreign conflict since the Spanish Civil War has so captured the imagination of the left.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRussian President Vladimir Putin is the antithesis of everything the left stands for,\u201d Tierney adds. \u201cNot only did he launch an unprovoked attack on a sovereign democratic nation, but he has also disparaged LGBTQ rights, multiculturalism, and immigration, and\u00a0claimed\u00a0that \u2018the liberal idea\u2019 has \u2018outlived its purpose.\u2019 Zelensky, in contrast, has built bridges with the global left. He addressed the Glastonbury music festival, in the U.K., where the revelers chanted his name to the tune of The White Stripes\u2019 \u2018Seven Nation Army.\u2019 In Germany, the Green Party led the charge to supply weapons to Kyiv, overturning decades of German wariness about intervening in foreign wars. LGBTQ protesters in Berlin also demanded that Germany step up arms shipments to Ukraine, so that a Pride parade can, one day, be held in the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol. Ukrainian liberals\u2014artists, translators, teachers, filmmakers\u2014have joined the struggle. As one writer\u00a0put\u00a0it: \u2018All our hipsters in Ukraine fight.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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My new article @TheAtlantic<\/a> on why the left is learning to love the military. https:\/\/t.co\/nk0Pii4kel<\/a><\/p>\n

— Dominic Tierney (@domtierney) September 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n