Introduction

"I will do it on purpose in a slightly provocative way because I want to open the space for you to counter-attack me," he said. "What makes me really depressed today is that a strong part of the Western left is more or less openly supporting Russia, a state which acts as an empire attacking a neighboring state." He added: "This bankruptcy of the left is not limited to Europe. The newly re-elected president of Brazil, Lula, recently said that the Ukrainian president Jelensky and his Russian counterpart put in bare equal responsibility for the war in Ukraine".