The Red-Brown-Yellow Alliance: Making Anti-War “Great” Again

Keith Preston

3 years ago

I like this “Red” (socialist), “Brown” (nationalist), and “Yellow” (libertarian) alliance deal. Can I have an application, please?

Seriously speaking, whenever I take one of those “political compass” tests, I always test out as “left-anarchist” or “post-left.” I never test out as right-wing or conventionally socialist. Theoretically, I am only half a step removed from C4SS, a group I’ve been feuding with for 15 years. The problem is they’re so absorbed in the “woke” paradigm and essentially corrupted by Western liberalism to the point that it colors and distorts everything else they do. For example, they’ve published articles opposing secessionism because someone, somewhere, somehow might be racist or not able to get an abortion so we need to accept the US continental imperium in the meantime.

This article reflects a similar attitude toward war. “Well, all states are bad, and the Russians are meanies too, and some antiwar protestors are cringe and therefore let’s just forget about it and let the risk of WW3/nuclear confrontation escalate.” While I agree with much of the article and am philosophically closer to C4SS than many of the groups involved in the antiwar movement, it also demonstrates how left-anarchists become functional Democrats by assuming these kinds of attitudes.

Spooky | @spookedhams | May 13th, 2023

A Rally Against Resistance

Firstly, I’d like to give my thanks to Dennis Morgan at Counterpunch for stating succinctly the exact fundamental problem with the “Rage Against the War Machine” rally that took place on February 19th, 2023. In Dennis’ own words, “We have to demand that the supply of weapons shipped to Ukraine stop immediately and that all NATO troops stand down and withdraw, as a precondition for negotiation with the Russians.” (emphasis added)

Let’s risk being prophetic for a moment and make a general statement about the immediate future of the war in Ukraine. Whether or not the US sends more weapons and aid, Ukrainians will continue to suffer, fight, and die as they resist their Russian attackers. At the same time, Russian citizens will continue to suffer, fight, and die as Putin continues to throw everything into his desired invasion. Such will be the case regardless of any intervention by any country in the world. How does this coalition straddle that nuance? Simple: pull out all material support for Ukraine and negotiate with Russia, no nuance required. The incorruptible goodness of diplomacy will ensure a peaceful, mutually beneficial solution is discovered, so they say. That would all be very nice were it not for what we just went over: Ukraine will not stop resisting and Russia will not stop aggressing, no matter what the US does. Whether they have Abrams tanks, bargain-bin artillery, or plain old sticks and local knowledge, they will violently resist violent aggression until they are forced to stop because their interests (Ukraine’s independence) are fundamentally hostile to those of Russia (Ukraine’s submission), and there’s little we yankees can do to change that.

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