"The prowar mentality among the progressive Dem pols is not limited to Biden’s cruel proxy war to the last Ukrainian.  It extends to a second proxy war now being ginned up in Taiwan.  When Nancy Pelosi recently visited the island to stir up secessionist sentiment, not a single progressive Democrat in Congress made so much as a peep of protest.  In fact Rep. Ro Khanna, Co-chair of Bernie Sanders’s 2020 Presidential campaign boosted it in rants on CNN and Twitter.

Both of these proxy wars bring the US into conflict with two other major global nuclear powers.  If the progressive pols cannot be against military escalation in cases like this, it is hard to see that they have any claim to be for peace.  And yet all too many activists in the progressive antiwar movement are loyal to them.  In fact some peace organizations have gone so far as to endorse them for election in 2022, even after their vote for the $40 billion to Ukraine for example here!

Moreover this support for the proxy war in Ukraine shows up among rank and file  Democrats as well.  By every measure in a recent Ipsos poll taken after 6 months of war, support for intervention in Ukraine was higher among Democrats than among Republicans or Independents.  IF the roots of this are partisan in nature, that is deeply disturbing because it means that Democrats will follow warhawks simply because they are Dems.  Biden may be a case in point for such misplaced loyalty."