 Well comrades, I think when it comes to the Ukraine war There's one thing that sums up everything in the West more than anything Which is that everything we've been told has been a lie from beginning To end and it's a lie that's been designed to dupe the working classes into supporting a reactionary cynical barbaric Proxy war on the part of Western imperialism. We were told that this was a Struggle, it was a war between good and evil. It was a between democracy and dictatorship It was between Western values, you know Human rights and so on and this brutal evil Russian Barbarism that that Vladimir Putin supposedly represented and everything else Russian by the way, that's also evil apparently If you remember, you know if this this might not be, you know fresh in your memory But every time there was a single civilian civilian casualty in in Ukraine They would raise a hue and cry about it all look at how Putin would bomb hospitals and you know Children would die and women and children would die and so on and so forth But but yeah, look at look at what Israel is doing today You're mercilessly you have this one of the most advanced military and machines in the world Mercilessly bombing and killing and you're destroying this this this this defenseless population thousands of Palestinians being killed Not only that not only are they bombing civilians. They purposefully bombing civilians. They want to terrorize and they even state They want to terrorize and so these people will leave they're trying to kill as many as they possibly can and within the Past couple of weeks. They've already killed far more than the official Count of civilian deaths in the whole in the whole totality of the Ukraine war Yeah, and if you remember, you know every time some Russian I remember there was there was a Russian official who called Ukrainian government officials of cockroaches and there was a big who high in the Western media. Oh, this is genocidal language as A matter of fact, they are cockroaches But we'll get we'll get to that and there's nothing genocidal in in in calling Ukrainian state officials that But then you have the Israeli Defense Minister calling Palestinians human animals and essentially you know Calling for them to be exterminated and Nothing is being done on the contrary all of those who are howling longer about about the Russian barbarism and so on and so forth Fully behind the Israeli military machine and it's onslaught against the the Palestinian people It was all lies in other words You know, they talk they talked about the forces of good versus evil and how NATO is this defensive? It's just a defensive pact It's just a quiet collaboration to defend Western values and Western democracy But if you look at the history of NATO, there's there's never been anything a Defensive about it the way that they destroyed Yugoslavia in the 90s the way that they destroyed Afghanistan more recently killing hundreds of thousands of people in Libya They completely destable NATO's intervention completely destabilized the country a country Which was relatively stable with a high level of culture is now just, you know In the throes of barbarism with all sorts of is is the Miss militias and so on buying for power and of course Other other adventures of US imperialism and British imperialism We know about the Iraq war in Iraq. They killed Well, some some figures put it in more than one million people Imagine pile up all of those dead bodies on top of one another and you'll you know Just imagine that how much death and destruction these forces at the heart of NATO how much they've they've caused On the world in Yemen for for years for ten years They've been destroying this this is one of the poorest countries in the world Hundreds of thousands of millions of people are living on the edge of starvation hundreds of thousands are dying and who's been leading the charge It's been the Saudis supported by US imperialism and British imperialism. These are not peaceful defensive forces the aggressive imperialist forces who try to Subdu and dominate as much as the world as they possibly can for their own interests You know, they talked about all the Israel the the Ukrainian right for self-determination the Ukrainian people Ukrainian people must be Defended and so on but it but recently in order to have Sweden join NATO. They made a deal with the Turkish regime Essentially to sell out the Kurds the oppressed Kurds who are oppressed by the Kurds by the Turkish regime are now being hounded down and the Organizations are being dismantled. They're being imprisoned. They've been handed over by this peace-loving Social democratic socialist Scandinavian socialist country Sweden NATO is not a defensive force has never been so it's an aggressive imperialist force Mainly in the interest of US imperialism, which is the most reactionary force on the planet And that is how we need to understand this war. Now, of course, we don't take sides in this war This is a reactionary war on both sides, but it's not a war between you Russia and Ukraine It's a war between US imperialism on the one hand that uses Ukraine as its proxy and Russian capitalism On the other hand, and it just so happens that this war is being fought on Ukrainian soil But essentially it's a war between the US And Russia and you have you have a reaction on both sides and the task of the communists The the task of the communist is precisely not to support any of the ruling class any of the reactionary capitalist forces in this war and for us as Western capitalists All sorry communists and for all communists is to is to oppose our own ruling classes The main our main enemy our first enemy is at home in other words And our task is to fight our own ruling class and the role that it plays in this reactionary Endeavour Yes, what we told but it was Russia that started the war That's you know, they they were the ones who invaded and you know, Ukraine was such such a defenseless and you know harmless country and it's true that formally Russia fired the first shots of this particular incident in this particular part of the episode Sorry, the the history of the Ukraine But that's not the entire story in fact in a war It's never really important who fires the first shots and if we go back a little bit further We see the the the role of the US imperialism and of NATO throughout all of this We should have been one of provoking aggressively and encroaching on Russia again and again, you see after the collapse of the Soviet Union The West made a deal with the with the Russians. I said look if you dismantle the Warsaw pact which was a defensive pact that the soviets had With Eastern Europe in Eastern Europe Then we will promise you that we will not expand NATO into Eastern Europe I will not expand military bases and military collaboration with Eastern European countries And there's like there's plenty of documentation for this but again and again throughout the years NATO expanded bringing one country after another into its fold and At this at that time in the 90s Russia was a very weak country. It was a weak capitalist country Its economy was collapsing its army was collapsing the state apparatus everything was rotten through and through and Well, in essence it was actually dominated by by by US imperialism It was kind of a semi colony if you may a Domain of Western imperialism at least to a large degree and they couldn't do anything about the expansion of NATO However Throughout this period. It was clear that Ukraine was a red line for this Why is that Ukraine has a very the Ukraine is an independent country? But in reality the Ukraine and the rest of Russia has a very very long common history And there's like a brotherly between the Ukrainian and Russian people's is a brotherly relationship But also from a capitalist basis there is the the economy of the Ukraine and Russia was was entirely Enmeshed in one another especially the the arms industry the lots of your mining What do you call it? agriculture Arrow what do you call aerospace industry and so on a lot of the major components of all these industries were in Ukraine There's a there's obviously geographic component Ukraine is right You know at the at the soft underbelly of Russia if you may Russian people and Ukrainian people would visit one another Lots of Russians would go to Ukraine for holidays you go to Kiev you could get along by just speaking Russian You didn't have to speak any Ukrainian everyone spoke Russian. There was no hostility in it in many ways It was one people's and and and and they had very very close links with one another That also meant from a capitalist point of view that The Russian capitalists could not saw the Insertion of Ukraine into NATO and in the how to say under the domination of Western imperialism as a direct threat to their interest economically culturally militarily So on and so forth just imagine what would happen if Russia started building loads of military bases in Canada or Mexico How how how the US would would react or Cuba where we did see how they would react They threatened to go to nuclear war when when the Russians were were moving Missiles to to to Cuba And at the same time however in spite of all the Notices that this was a red line for Russian capitalism Russian capitalism could not accept at NATO Ukraine in NATO And on the Western domination the Americans kept pushing it and pushing it There was a struggle over years of coups and countercoups and maneuvers inside the Ukrainian state apparatus where the West Western aligned forces and Russian aligned forces were essentially fighting one another and the height of this came in the 2014 in the Maidan movement where you had a you had a mass movement, which was essentially hijacked by right-wing liberal pro-western forces And it and it resulted in one wing of the Ukrainian oligarchy supported by the CIA supported by the Americans as well as Important groups of right-wing fascists and ultra right-wing nationalists taking power essentially and installing of an extremely pro-western Regime the Maidan regime, which is the one that's that's essentially there That the the the history of the Maidan regime and what happened is a longer one But suffice it to say that even then after a period there was a lots of conflicts with lots of instability You it led to a civil war inside of Ukraine with the with the Russian speakers feeling feeling attacked Those uprisings and so on and so forth Russia intervening in this whole process But in the end they made a certain agreement that is called the Minsk to agreement to again to collaborate Which meant that the Minsk to agreement would mean that the Russian interests essentially were Maintained that Ukraine did not become a military foothold That could be turned against Russia This was a deal that was made with the Ukrainian regime as well as the French and the and the Germans Now Zelensky as you know Today very popular man. He came to power actually on the promise of implementing that on on the on the promise of having peace and not non-aggression with Russia in fact and he was elected against originally against the Maidan regime you know, he his His main slogan was against the oligarchs against the corrupt officials against the state bureaucracy and so on However, he is not a man. He's not an idealist. He's not a man of principles necessary and once he got to power He was co-opted essentially by a certain wing of the By the oligarchs and continued down the same path and the main thing in this situation was the Americans Refused to have him or anyone else implement the Minsk to agreement. This is not a socialist Agreement, this is not a socialist program. This is not a working-class program This is an agreement between two bourgeois reactionary regimes To have peace in the Ukraine so that and they collaborate. It's like a power-sharing deal essentially the Russians say Okay, you can have this and that we just want our guarantees that this is not going to become a threat to our interests But the Americans refused to implement this they refused to give any concessions whatsoever quite the contrary they whipped up Again and again anti-Russian moods inside of Ukraine the Ukrainian army was rebuilt remodeled along NATO lines and The integration of Ukraine into the into Western imperialism into the sphere of Western imperialism Took what was accelerated in this whole process The demands that's what led to the build-up of Russian troops on Ukrainian borders in Was it 20 21 was it? Yeah At the end of 2021 and early 2022 and what was Putin saying we need to implement this this Agreement and the Americans rejected that now. Why was that they knew? That Putin did not have any other choice than go to war they provoked this war Consciously and what was the reason they thought this would be an easy victory. This would be an easy win for them One that what were the war aims to weaken Russia essentially in the long run To push Russia back in the weak Position that it was in in the 90s I as a subjugated semi colony of the West So that this is not necessarily in the immediate aim But in the long run to use Ukraine as a means as a means of weakening Russian capitalism So that they can focus on China This was the main aim of US imperialism and the second aim was to divide Russia was to separate Russia from the EU Which relied have which relied heavily on Russian gas with cheap Russian gas Which is a key component in the industry and the economy of Germany and and the rest of the you It's Germany being the biggest economy by far and in this way to weaken and Dominate the the Europe even further. That was a secondary aim of it. And what was the bonus? You didn't have to shed any American Blood to do this and this is not just us who are saying this Mid Romney some of you might know old good old Republican as they say What's what did he tweet a while ago is that Putin's Russia is not our friend and it is Russia the China's most powerful ally Supporting Ukraine weakens an adversary enhances our national security advantage our power globally and Requires no shedding of American blood. This is this is the cynicism with which these people embarked on this And this is a responsibility. They have for the bloodbath for the barbarism that's been created in Ukraine and of course it's completely backfired, but we will get back to that later and What's been the cost of the war so far? Well No one knows the exact figures of death But one thing we know is that recently they made a plan to build a new cemetery in In Ukraine, which is slightly larger than the Arlington Cemetery in the US which has 400,000 graves Some of those there are some graves that we've moved to that But that shows you the level of death and destruction that we've that we've witnessed inside of Of Ukraine There's the infrastructure has been completely destroyed Industry has been destroyed millions of people have been displaced and forced to move to to other countries I just I think yesterday I read somewhere the rise of Ukrainian homelessness in Europe in Germany and other places People who have been who have had to leave everything either internally displaced or had to flee their country all together Hundreds of thousands of people have been maimed lost limbs And have to live with that hundreds of thousands of people have been Shell-shocked, you know suffering from PTSD and you were going to see Generations of people who have to pay for the wounds that are being caused by this war As it is and all of that for what for the interest for the narrow interest of the rich in Washington and their puppets and allies in London and Elsewhere there was a there was a massive wave of propaganda in the West some of you will remember and You saw that Genuine mood amongst millions of ordinary people saying we need to do something You know we is Ukrainians are being killed. This is this is not right. We want to help them in any way We can you saw lots of people taking in your Ukrainians that shows you the real attitude of the ordinary workers But what was being done was not what they were being shown. They were being led back, you know They were being doof. They were being cheated in other words. They were being manipulated How long was broken Okay They were being manipulated and In reality the exact opposite was what's happening. Ukrainian masses were not being helped We weren't they weren't defending a democratic Ukraine the regime that was built in Ukraine by the West and the and their puppets in Ukraine is everything but democratic. It's an incredibly rotten oligarchic and corrupt regime It has all of the the hallmarks of the regime that they accuse Russia of being perhaps even a bit more Maybe a bit more disorganized. I put it like that. It's not more more or less reactionary but but extremely extremely corrupt with a significant element of of fascist groups implemented in in certain parts of it the it carries a Bandar Bandera Nationalist nostalgia Bandera was like a Ukrainian nationalist in World War two collaborated with the Nazis In its armed forces, it has battalions which are openly Nazis openly fascists and At this stage actually at as we speak in this period every single week There are loads of corruption scandals which which which just shows a little bit of the rot that exists underneath the surface of of the state Mobile people receiving a price for mobilization to be excluded from mobilization Apparently you can get it excluded if you pay someone five thousand dollars, which is Nowhere close to anything that ordinary people would have and as a result There's a there's a joke that if they actually mobilize rich people's children Then we would probably have peace by now. This is this is a joke making the rounds in Ukraine itself The recent last week there was an article in Times magazine a very prominent article by a very prominent journalist and He just gave a little Example of some of the conversations that he had and said and he wrote amid all the pressure to root out corruption I assume perhaps naively that officials in Ukraine would think twice before taking a bribe or pocketing state funds But when I made this point to a top presidential advisor in early October, this is not long ago He asked me to turn off my audio recorder so he could speak more freely and said Simon you're mistaken. People are stealing like there's no tomorrow. That's the that's the type of regime That the US and the West is building in inside of of Ukraine and I'll tell you there is Mass dissatisfaction with this regime and there's there is a big swing now against What they're doing against the corrupt people can say look why are you waging all of these offensives? Which are clearly just PR stunts. Why are people people dying? Why is why is our lives being ground to a halt and you have no way of actually guaranteeing us? You're just looking after yourself essentially and the Ukrainian state is entirely run by By the Western by by US imperialism by by the CIA by the US the US military has enormous Influence within the Ukrainian army the IMF has enormous control over the Ukrainian economy and recently it was it was leaked that In order to get the fund the Ukrainian state is entirely dependent on funds from the West But in order to receive those funds the Americans have asked for a huge range of conditions changing of the law changing of the legal system in implementation of certain elements and Oversight over the implementation of the budget. What does it mean if another country comes and tells you I need to have oversight and I need to Approve every single change and every single thing you do to the budget and how you implement it That means you have full control I mean there's no such thing as an independent Ukraine that that there is at least not a There's no independent Ukraine as it is now Ukraine the Ukrainian regime the present one is a proxy for US imperialism and Therefore what the war that's being fought is not a war between an independent Ukraine or one Dominated by Russia. It's a war between who is going to dominate Ukraine That's the only choice in front of that's the only two solutions to road paths in front of it this this particular war now Some people Say well the solution is peace. We need to have you know pacifism essentially a lot of people say this in a most genuine manner Some people say it let's let's genuinely But the point is this War is a consequence of capitalism war is a symptom of a disease system And there's no way that you can you can you cannot have Capitalism without war there's those two things that just don't go together And for our from our point of view, we are not moralists Marxists are not moralists. We don't say of course No one we're not in favor of war We're not in favor of death and destruction and barbarism destitution We're not in favor of all of the any of these things We want to eradicate them but the point the way to do it is not by wishing them away and by trying to Force the bourgeois into some to be better bourgeois more peaceful capitalist that doesn't exist And furthermore, we are not in favor in against all wars There are some wars that are reactionary like the present one There are imperialist wars, but there are also good wars Progressive wars that are that are fought by the by the oppressed masses the rev a revolutionary war or a war of National liberation I a war of the oppressed against against their oppressors. We support those wars As a means to fight against the capitalist system, but we also explained that as long as capitalist remains There will be a struggle for markets there'll be a struggle for spheres of influence and there will be competition between the bourgeois of different countries which Essentially will propel them into one type of war after another and and the the the slogan of peace in that sense Within capitalism is utopian and in fact is reactionary because it gives the idea that there can be a peaceful capitalism There is a progressive bourgeoisie or a better type of capitalism a more peaceful and humane type of capitalism That's such a thing does not exist and also Not only that, but it's also reactionary because essentially the slogan for peace means a defense of the status quo Peace today in Ukraine on the conditions that we have now. What does it mean? It means Ukraine dominated by by by American imperialism as a means to fight and Attempt to subdue Russian Russian capitalism. That's what peace means today And we are not in favor of the status quo It means a status quo where the exploiters and the oppressors of the Ukrainian people who are now in power the Ukrainian ruling class remains in power. That's the type of peace that that that that we'll be looking at if we're fighting for peace within Capitalism doesn't mean that we fight for war for war either, but these are the objective Conditions of capitalism and the only way to to fight against it is to fight against the system as a whole Yes, and even if you had peace within capitalism any peace any imperialist peace as Lenin said it's just a precursor for another imperialist war So as I said the only real struggle for peace is to struggle for Against capitalism it's itself. Now. What does that mean for communists in the West? What is what is our testing? Well? First of all our task is to clarify the class contradictions is to is to wish you know wash away all of this Confusion the lies and the hypocrisy that is spurting out in in the mass media in the education system and so on and so forth To expose our own ruling classes and their interests to tell the workers and the youth All of these lies and explain and explain why are they lying like this? What is it that they're covering their class interest in in other words? And and explain how our current class interests are diametrically opposed to those of the ruling class we need to explain look And we just connect that to the ordinary lives of the workers In the West look they are throwing billions and bill I think it's around a hundred and fifty billion dollars so far Officially at least have been channeled into the Ukraine war by Western governments Well in the same period they've been attacking living standards. They've been cutting back at schools They don't have money for schools. They don't have money for hospitals every time. There's any discussion of a budget Oh, we have to be realistic and we have but there's money for war. There's money for arms There's money for killing and murdering And also what Joe explained before the cost of living crisis this war is not only De-stabilized you it's actually destabilized the whole world a huge a huge part probably at this stage The biggest part of inflation today in the world comes from as a consequence of this war Which is pushed up oil prices. We should push the food prices and again It's the workers of the West that are paying the price and our task is to connect these struggles and to show That these are all connected our our ruling class of the Actions of our ruling classes abroad is is also opposed to the interests of the of the domestic working class The bourgeois use propaganda war propaganda. They use the they abuse the genuine humanity that everyone feels for war victims and then they try to To divert their attention and to rally the people behind the ruling class behind their own Projects our task is to draw out and clarify the class contradictions at every step of the way in all of the work that that we're doing The same people who exploit the workers and oppress the workers in the West are the ones who are going out there and trying to oppress and exploit workers In the rest of the world and they're the same people who are sending young Ukrainian men to die and now also women because they're beginning to mobilize massively amongst women To die for their narrow interests and nothing and nothing else And we need to explain this And we need to explain that as long as in the imperialists remain in power They will be endless wars will always be wars as long as the imperialists remain power and for us a Defeat of Western imperialism is a good thing a defeat of the West in the Ukraine and everywhere else is a good thing because it will Accelerate the crisis of the ruling class at home of course What about Putin some people will say who's going to fight against Putin and who's going to fight against Russia's war But the point is that is the task of the Russian working class the Russian communists That's the they have to fight their main enemy, which is their own ruling class and in fact the fact is that This war by the West NATO's actions have strengthened the Putin regime a lot of a lot of most Russian workers do not want war They don't want this war either. They're not they're not particularly fond of it They're not particularly fond of the regime either. However, they remember the 90s They remember what the West did in the 90s and how they dismantled the Soviet economy and how they would walk around Treat treat Russia like you know humiliate them essentially Hundreds of thousands of Russians died or you know had had to go from a relatively high living standard to living in the most barbaric destitute conditions and The West wants to do the same thing again. The West wants to push Russia back into this and Ordinary Russians see that and they understand the threat the NATO and the West poses to them They see that for instance, you know that the some parts of the Western ruling class even are talking about Decolonizing Russia. What does what does it mean decolonizing Russia? It means dividing up Russia into the all of his different nationalities Russia's a big patchwork of different nationalities What what would that mean a breakup of Russia along national lines would mean the most reactionary sectarian civil wars you can possibly imagine we should go on for years and years and years the Russian workers do not want that and therefore the the the attack the Putin the Putin regime uses the actions of the West to Rally the Russian nation behind himself to dilute class contradictions in Russia to say essentially We yes, okay, we might have differences But this enemy is a bigger one is a more important one less all unite to fight the West less all unite to fight nature We must we must defend ourselves and our and our fatherland in other words he here he does the same thing that the ruling classes in the West us using His own you know using this war in order to dilute class contradictions And Is the task of the Russian Marxism the Russian communists to highlight the head again to explain to expose What Putin is doing essentially say no actually you're not fighting for the in defense of the interests of the Russian masses But only in the interest of a tiny group of oligarchs that you represent and in fact Western Marxist Opposing our ruling class is a help to the Russian workers You see as it is now, which you can say look everyone in the West hates us everyone in the West is against us they even banning You know Russian ballets and Russian music and Russian movies and Russian this and that He uses that but if the Western workers can say we have no interest in dominating you We're gonna fight against our own ruling class We're gonna fight against Western imperialism so that they have no way of harming you and subjugating you well Then that that allows class contradictions to to crystallize Much faster and much clearer in Russia itself and that way the Russian and the Western workers can and can join together and Tie the strongest links with one another And of course the Russian Russian The Russian Communists also have to explain that they also want to fight NATO But the only way to really fight NATO How is that is by taking power into their own hands and by uniting with the workers of the West? That is surely the best way of fighting US imperialism and NATO imperialism is by by by uniting With the workers across the world on both sides of this this struggle and that's exactly what the bourgeoisie is trying to prevent They want to divide workers along national lines and our task Our method by by aiming first and foremost against our own ruling classes is the best means of overcoming that that is that is the internationalist method of Communism and of course this has to be linked with the international struggle for socialist revolution now I have to sum up now, but It's clear now that actually you know as Joe said they've been talking about the Impending victory and you know the Ukraine is gonna be next to Moscow and the Russian army is so decrepit and it's so weak and it's Go, but actually they're losing now the Ukrainians You know Sprinting towards a defeat You've had in the last week alone several articles and very prominent papers Times Magazine the Economist In NBC coming out showing a very very different picture than than the one has been showed the previous They show Zelensky completely isolated as the only person almost like a madman As the only person who believes in a victory when everyone else is saying This kid is cannot go on then you had Zaluzhny who is the head of the Ukrainian army Appearing in an interview in the Economist without the clearance from from from Zelensky by the way Saying that essentially saying this war is lost He calls it a stalemate, but the way that he poses it actually saying it is impossible Just we cannot say any longer that this war is not winnable by Russia something like that But if you add up all the double negatives you end up saying we have lost And Yeah, and and the whole house of cards is kind of Collapsing now that is a huge blow to us imperialism to Western imperialism Which as I said is the most reactionary force on the planet. Why is it that it's the biggest capitalist nation? It has the biggest economy and economically is it's it's How do you say tapped in to every single country one way or another either directly or indirectly controls the whole financial system Major industries everything is controlled by by by US capitalism essentially. There's not a single country Where the US does not have direct Economic or political interests that it doesn't use to manipulate and steer those countries Towards its own aims and furthermore in order to maintain this position It has the strongest military power force on the planet and military which in budgetary terms is 10 is as big as bigger than the next 10 militaries that have put together had hundreds of military bases all over the world Essentially, this this is a superpower. This is a massive massive superpower And in every country every time you see any indication of a mass movement of a genuine revolutionary proletarian mass movement US imperialism will scheme and will do everything in its power to undermine that whether it's in the friendly country in a friendly country Allied country or an enemy country They will do whatever they can to stop the working class from coming to power and therefore obviously a defeat of US imperialism It is a big event and for the vast majority of the workers in the world It's it will be a step forward It would be a victory for the Russian workers Because they will temporarily strengthen the Putin regime will say it was strengthened also the Chinese regime temporarily because they they are in competition and they put their themselves as being in opposition to the to the Americans But this will have a huge impact and most importantly inside the US itself in the West itself It will massively accelerate the political crisis of capitalism that we've seen But look and and in turn also the economic and so forth that we've seen over the past decade and It will have an impact on the jet on the class struggle as well But does that mean then that we support Russia and China? That's because that's what what some people think they say oh they see the hypocrisy They see what the role that the Americans are playing they see the you know the the barbarism that they're spreading everywhere And they say well Russia and China are the only ones Fighting back and they're actually winning that's actually happening. They are actually winning it They're gaining at least let's put it like that the US is still by far the biggest imperialist power But Russia and China are putting in some some some good punches. Let's put it like that And they and then there's this idea that oh it's much better to have a multipolar world I a world with many imperialist powers They can kind of balance each other out and this will create a more stable world a world a more just world That's absolutely incorrect. First of all Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping and China are not in any way shape or form Progressive you just have to look at the regimes that the Russians support or the Chinese support all over the world To see what kind of people we're dealing with The Iranian regime not in any way a progressive regime The Syrian regime the Turkish regime. These are the friends of these people In fact Israel Russia at the moment They're not doing very well, but the Russians have no problems cooperating with the Israelis even though at the moment They would like to not to be seen Too close to them in Libya. They support a reactionary government of Eastern Libya the Haftar government in Sudan They support the RSF tribal militias extremely reactionary forces for their own interests We have nothing in common with them and we in no way shape or form can give them any support Most importantly, they are the enemies of the Russian and Chinese workers at home And if we are in any way seen as supporting them, that means we're we're supporting their rule in Russia and China we're supporting their exploitation and oppression of the Russian and Chinese working class and Furthermore the decline of US imperialism. Yes, there is a progressive side to it in the sense that when you have a declining imperialist power that the space is open for for mass movements also to erupt but in reality what it what is going to lead to is Increased incredible amounts of instability. That's what we're seeing in the Middle East That's what we're seeing in in in Israel and Palestine essentially that's part of a Symptom partially on a one one angle of one side of it is that it's a symptom of a declining power of US imperialism Are we going to see this? Increasingly in more and more places you're going to see wars and and an extreme instability to come out Yes, however It will also this instability will also affect the crash struggle in essence what we're seeing now is a new period let's open up We're already in the first stages of it of a new period of extreme instability throughout the world of wars and revolutions and counter revolutions and civil wars some of them reactionary, but also some of them progressive some of them will be revolutionary developments and While some of the pacifists and the liberals they say oh now is the chance to put aside the struggle for socialism Let's just let's just hope for let's just fight for peace now Let's all unite and fight for peace we say no This is the true face of this of this system what we're seeing now is the face of you know the nice face of capitalism of the post war period of a relative common stability falling off and the real nature of this system coming up and it's precisely at this point that we have to fight for socialism and the Opportunities are going to be there because all of this instability will also politicize people It will make them think you bring all of the contradictions to the surface and our task is to prepare for that in order to bring it to His final conclusion of destroying imperialism destroying capitalism And then we can lay the basis for a peaceful and harmonic world where people can coexist and Collaborate for a better future for all. Thank you