I’ve seen this narrative start to pop up a lot attacking “the left” about the Ukraine situation.<p>The odd part is I have yet to say anyone saying the things that they are told they should stop saying.<p>This all seems like a really aggressive attempt to preemptively narrow one side of the window of acceptable discourse.
Had it no been for the strategic pivot to Asia containment policy of China, that have created a de facto China Russia alliance, then Russia likely would have assessed the cost of invading Ukraine too high.
In the UK the only people backing Russia publiclly were obviously Nigel 'Oswald' Farage, but also Corbyn and co.<p>Corbyn (who led the main opposition party from 2015-2019, nearly becoming PM in 2017, and then falling to a massive wipeout in 2019) has already been fired from Labour, but his "gang" were all there queueing up to worship Putin until they were bluntly told they'd be sacked.<p><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-labour-mps-mps-stop-the-war-coalition-claudia-webbe-b2022770.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-labour...</a><p>The Stop The War coalition was formed to stop the west attacking Afghanistan and reached its height with Iraq, a reasonable view point.<p>Turns out that it's not Putin's fault Russia invaded, it's all America's fault. Probably Tony Blair too for some reason.