the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Jul 21, 2025
The Trump administration is making deals for the U.S.’s NATO allies to send Patriot air-defense systems to Ukraine. Trump said that the U.S. will produce and backfill the Patriot weapons that are sent to Ukraine. It is another statement by the U.S. government that it is planning to continue this war that started over 3 years ago.
The war began in February of 2022 when Putin sent Russian troops across the border to invade Ukraine. Putin was reacting to encirclement by the U.S. and NATO. These powers continued to station more troops, weapons and missiles on the border of Russia, surrounding it.
The U.S. was training and equipping Ukrainian troops, preparing for war, before Russia ever invaded. When the war started, the U.S. government under Biden supplied most of the weapons and intelligence to Ukraine, enough to keep the war going.
The war has been a humanitarian disaster for both the Ukrainian and Russian peoples. Hundreds of thousands have been killed, and millions of people have been displaced from their homes.
When Trump was running for president last year, he criticized the Biden administration for U.S. involvement in this war. Trump promised to end the war “before Inauguration Day.” It now has been over 6 months since Trump was inaugurated, and the Trump administration continues the war along the same lines as the Biden administration, supplying more weapons to Ukraine.
The U.S. government helped provoke the war in Ukraine and has used Ukrainian soldiers as proxies to fight the war. U.S. involvement in this war was not just due to the policies of the Biden administration. When Biden engaged this war, his administration was serving U.S. imperialism and the U.S. capitalist class, who had an interest to engage a war that would weaken Russia.
Trump is serving the same capitalist class, so it is no surprise that the U.S. government under Trump is, so far, following the same policy to continue the war. Perhaps it is possible that Trump and his administration see an interest for U.S. imperialism today in bringing the war to a ceasefire, or even a close. But once a war starts, it has its own logic and is not easily ended.
But even if and when the war in Ukraine eventually does end, it also should serve as a warning to the population in this country. The U.S. capitalist class and its political representatives were not only ready to keep the war in Ukraine going, a war that killed so many people; they also have used this war as a practice and a learning experience for new weapons and strategies for the next war. The capitalist system is producing more wars around the world, wars which threaten to explode into a world war; a war that would directly involve the population here.
The war in Ukraine was not in the interests of the working people of either Ukraine or Russia. A future war will not be in the interests of working people here, or in any country.