This war is such an ecological disaster. Both powers in this war being Russia and NATO are depleting their military stocks by getting more and more bogged down in the fighting. 300 tanks from Poland here, several hundred from America and the UK there, countless old soviet warehouses worth and hoards upon hoards of small arms, missiles and munitions from both sides.
Not only are these weapons actively being depleted through the industrial murder of our fellow people of this Earth, they are also destroying the biodiversity and ecological integrity of Ukraine. Most damning of all, their destruction, a capital destruction, opens the door for greater military spending and thus wasted material resources on arms that should be spent on infrastructure for the betterment of everyone.
It's a disgrace that no real anti-war movement has developed across national lines in the west. During the Great War working people from either side of the trenches striked and fought their respective governments. In the trenches there were many cases of them refusing to fight one another, or even crossing the line and sharing camaraderie.
A real anti-war movement is not supporting the narratives put out by our respective governments and their media arms. It is not demanding that Russia or NATO solely back down and that some "victor" is permitted to then occupy the ashen land left behind. A real anti-war movement is a militant strike and movement of civil resistance against our respective governments and a demand that both powers step down and disarm. It is a demand for the end of the war in all its forms and a declaration of abolition towards all its perpetrators universally. It is a demand for the abolition of the military industrial complex and the persecution of its benefactors.
There are no good men in imperial wars. There are no righteous actors. There is no virtue in nationalism or liberation in death. Ukraine is not set free by American bombs, it is sent to its grave by them.
Russian civilians have shown valiant effort in resisting their government and applying pressure where they can to end the war. Why are we not doing the same? Why are so many posts in this thread enthusiastically cheering on the war?
And don't say some foolish thing about which empire shot first. It doesn't matter, they are both the most vile spawns of evil, there's no virtue between the either of them, only damnation or abolition. Neither will likely last the century let alone the millennia. Either in ashes or friendship both states and their respective allies will crumble in ecological collapse or international union and thus abolition of empire. What reason, what sense, what foolish thing can be found in support of them?