The Economist: Stop the War Britain’s left must reject the anti-West reactionaries at the heart of its movement

That is the thing with Stop the War. It is not anti-war so much as anti-West; a permanent howl of relativist anguish at NATO and its members. For example, the group could hardly be more indulgent of Vladimir Putin’s wars. It defended the invasion of Georgia as a reaction to “the ambition of the USA to exercise global hegemony”, called many of the Maidan protesters in Kiev neo-Nazis and excused Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine and the Crimea.

Bagehot: Marching forth with Stop the War Britain’s left must reject the anti-West reactionaries at the heart of its movement

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