Letter

In response to Abandoning our fears: how Australia should respond to US-China regional confrontation

Hitler, Tojo and Putin – strange bedfellows

Gareth Evans’ gratuitously rude reference to “outright military aggression — Hitler, Tojo or Putin-style” — spoils an otherwise admirable essay on how and why Australia should now reposition itself in the China-US strategic equation.

Gareth knows better. He has read Sachs and Mearsheimer. He knows how they and many other scholars have demolished the Western propaganda myth that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was unprovoked aggression. He knows Putin was forced into this after eight years of the Kiev Banderist regime’s rejection of Russian peace efforts and its murderous aggression and human rights abuses against Russian Ukrainians since 2014.

He knows of the imminent full scale genocidal final assault by the Kiev regime on the rebel Donbass region. Or is Gareth so conditioned to Australia’s Russophobic intellectual climate that he now flings off such gratuitous insults without thinking how unfounded his words are?

— Tony Kevin from Canberra