Until someone cries

Until Someone Cries

Depleted uranium ammunition in Ukraine.

Moscow stations nuclear weapons in Belarus on Saturday as an apparent reaction to the delivery of depleted uranium ammunition to Ukraine by the UK.
The bourgeois press is outraged:
“Now Moscow wants to station nuclear weapons in the neighboring country again, just like in [don’t be alarmed] communism.
And thus takes a significant step toward reconstructing a dwarf version of the Soviet Union.” writes Springer.

Newton’s third law seems genuinely surprising to some: every action has a reaction – uranium leads to plutonium and uranium.
NATO nuclear weapons, by the way, are stationed all over Europe; Belgium, the Netherlands, Turkey, and of course here in Germany.
In the idyllic Eifel municipality of Ulmen, Rhineland-Palatinate, there are 20 B61 nuclear bombs, each with
13 times the explosive power of Hiroshima, but for some reason, that’s different, since we aren’t (ex-)communists.

That the UK announces the delivery of uranium ammunition to Kyiv almost at the 20th anniversary of the Iraq invasion seems like a cynical joke.
In Iraq, the “Coalition of the Willing” used around 2,000 tons of uranium ammunition, and the civilian population was unaware of the consequences of this radiation.

“When uranium shells hit their target, the used depleted uranium burns into tiny particles. This ‘death dust’ can be inhaled and enter all
organs because it is 100 times smaller than red blood cells and can even cross the mother-child barrier.
The uranium particles contaminate the soil, air, and water in Iraq and everywhere else these weapons have been used.
They cause cancer. Many generations will be harmed for centuries, as their genetic code is altered.”

That means Ukrainian families will suffer from radiation for decades to come, die young from cancer, and give birth to children with severe illnesses
and disabilities – but of course, it’s really Putin’s fault, just like it was Saddam’s.
For many readers of the bourgeois press, the delivery of nuclear weapons seems to only be a sign that “weapon deliveries work,” as Putin
apparently stations them out of fear; fear of the united, solidary, and of course feminist foreign policy of the West.
Top comments on Tagesschau regarding the nuclear weapon stationing read:
“And the spreading of fear and terror continues. If Putin hopes this will stop support for Ukraine, he’s wrong again.”
“Same old game by Putin. He knows some of us immediately get scared and demand an end to weapon deliveries to
Ukraine – exactly what he wants. His usual psycho game. Nothing will happen.”

“This man must go. An absolutely megalomaniac dictator who dreams of a ‘greater Russian empire’ and won’t stop
until he has it. There will be no safe world order as long as Putin is in power.”
We, the West, are the proud defenders of the democratic free world, pursuing a humanistic foreign policy
(except for Iraq, Yugoslavia, Libya, etc.) and will not shy away from nuclear weapons until the last Ukrainian family is irradiated!
The understanding of this war for many seems not to go beyond February 24, 2022; Putin is the irrational
fascist who escalates himself, while we only do what we are forced to as the free West, which I find deeply disturbing.

With such a purely polemical understanding of this war (Putin bad, West good), it is only logical that there is such
widespread support for weapon deliveries. So, specifically: The continued delivery of weapons, of any kind, to Ukraine not only
costs, as in the case of uranium ammunition, the lives of countless Ukrainians for decades to come, but also risks unknown
dimensions of war. Russia is a bellicose imperialist state fighting for capitalist interests in Ukraine,
Ukraine is a fascistoid imperialist state defending the capitalist interests of the West. In just over a year,
roughly 300,000 people have died in Ukraine, and the delivery of uranium ammunition will expose Ukrainian families to radiation for generations,
just like Iraqis still are today.

For a stop to arms deliveries based on the model of the Korean War, i.e., a halt to arms deliveries tied to territorial conditions
(e.g. the Donbas People’s Republics and Eastern Ukraine become part of the Russian Federation, the rest becomes independent), with negotiations led by the People’s Republic of China. Solidarity with Ukrainian and Russian workers.