Augustus Democraticus on The Fall of Communist Britain and 20th Anniversary of The Invasion of Iraq.

My comrades in Rimskaya and around the world. Tonight I speak on terms of 2 happenings, one unfortunate, the other despicable.

On the occurrence in Communist Britain,

The collapse of their regime was, for all I can say, inevitable. And I say that as a Marxist, firm believer and practitioner of the ideology said to fail in every and all cases. Communist Britain was, in their practice, totalitarian. It's governance foundation was dictatorial, and hellbent on nuclear combat. In that sense, they even managed to out-Stalin Stalin.

The coalition forces that invaded the isles I nevertheless condemn, including Lunoria, one of our close, yet more critical, allies. They saw the weaknesses of the reactionary regime, and sought immediately to exploit them, as did the coalition invaders during the Russian Civil War try to assist the White Army in crushing the Bolsheviks.

The military coup should also be a cautious sign: the armed forces, when advanced beyond a vanguard of the people, is a dangerous force. For all known, they could on a whim establish a junta, and crush the newborn democracy.

The establishment of democracy however, for the time, means not all is lost for the British people just yet. If the principles pledged by the new leader are more than just empty words, then a Marxist pathways is still entirely possible. The scars of the war may be healed, but what is stopping the new regime from starting more of its own?

Rimskaya wishes the best for the British people, and hopes that capitalism does not rot the isles. That said, the Revolutionary Army is all ready for action should it become necessary.

 

 

 

 

On to other, more serious news... today, regrettably, marks a grim, blood-stained 20 years since President George W. Bush launched his criminal invasion of Iraq.

The invasion was undertaken with the pretext of non-existent Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the idea of bringing democracy to the Iraqi people. What resulted was a coalition bombing that sent Iraq, as experts say, back to the pre-industrial age in terms of development, the indiscriminate massacre of the civilian population under American bombs, and the subsequent 10-year occupation, amounting to little more than American colonization of the state.

 

The prequel to this was the war by President George H.W. Bush in 1991, Operation Desert Storm, under which four times more tonnage of bombs (around 90k tons) were dropped on Iraq, a country barely larger than Germany, than the entire allied bombing campaign on all fronts of the Second World War.

The bombings destroyed infrastructure across the country, as well as multiple civilian hospitals, schools, and mosques.

This war was not against Saddam Hussein and his tyrannical regime's occupation of Kuwait, but against the Iraqi state as a whole, and its ability to function as a civilized country. The following 12 years of sanctions resulted in an estimated 500,000 children dying prematurely from malnutrition, disease, and loss of healthcare access.

 

Then came 2003, in which all rebuilding progress since 1991 was in the blink of an eye, and the flash of more bombs, completely undone. While the anti-war movement grew, both capitalist parties of the U.S. agreed on expansion of the war, including then-senator, now-President, Joe Biden.

Iraq was reduced from one of the most advanced countries of the region, to poverty levels equal to that of Sub-Saharan Africa, in an invasion with devastating levels of destruction not seen since the Blitzkrieg.

With Iraq's quality of life, and ability to live, severely reduced, healthcare being ever harder to access as doctors fled the war, and the state GDP had been halved, as Iraq's economy was privatized and shut down, causing unemployment to skyrocket, there is only one culprit to blame, at the lead of the coalition in charge of the conflict: The United States, both its parties, and its generalship.

The U.S., regardless of its pretexts, even if they were in part true, was conducting a war of aggression, an international crime. And yet, countless war criminals of the military and government go unpunished, sitting comfortably in and out of Washington, condemning the war of aggression by the Russian Federation.

As it would turn out, acknowledging the destruction of the war in Ukraine, it still pales in comparison to the destruction of the wars in Iraq, including the fact that Ukraine has the supplies of the entire West: Iraq stood virtually alone.

 

And so, as we mark today, remember the real criminals of the world: Both Putin and Biden, both Hussein and Bush: 

The aggressors, 

The warmongers, 

The profit-seekers, 

The imperialists, 

The capitalists.