The war in Ukraine has served as some sort of absolution for the war on terror, but an absolution with no real reckoning. There's all sorts of ways in which it kind of wanders and whitewashes this very complex history. And I think it puts the left into what I can just accurately described as a deeply ambivalent position.
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