No. Molotov-Ribbentrop was not a peace agreement, it was a shopping list where both countries laid out which countries they were going to invade and conquer. First on the list? Poland. Like, you want to talk about the Soviets being worried about some hypothetical in-action by Western countries if Germany invaded them, yet it was the Soviets who gleefully helped Nazis in their campaign across Poland and then stood by and let them run rip shod all over the rest of Europe (because they were too busy invading eastern Europe and massacring Polish people).
The answer western capitalist countries that weren't yet fascist gave to Stalin's call for an antifascist alliance was the Munich Agreement, to which the Soviet Union was not a party-- was not even invited to discuss. But neither were the Czechs, so whatever, right? So the Soviets looked to their own interests because clearly the 'free world' wasn't going to be helpful. Save the crocodile tears.
Here's an article from 2016 written by Peter Tatchell on the UK's Stop The War Coalition, at the time on Syria:
The Stop the War coalition is betraying Syrians by failing to actively campaign against the war crimes of Assad and Putin. Peter Tatchell, a long-time supporter of the anti-war movement, reveals an organisation that has lost its way
www.independent.co.uk
It effectively describes Seanchaidh's chunk of the left. Anyone and everyone can be sold down the river in their fight against the capitalist West.
Wow, interesting.
It pains me to say this: Stop the War Coalition has betrayed the Syrian people who protested peacefully for democracy in 2011 and have been massacred by Assad ever since. The principles of internationalist solidarity have been dumped. Responding to critics it its own ranks, the coalition belatedly, and somewhat mutedly, condemned the Assad and Putin bombing of civilians but has never organised a march against them. Indeed, although quick to demonstrate in opposition to any and all Western interventions, the coaltion has failed to even once rally against the military intervention in Syria by Russia, Iran and Hezbollah.
An organization in the UK didn't organize marches against Putin. In the UK. Because marches against Putin
in the UK would have been helpful somehow-- would have had a positive effect when it comes to
stopping war (as is the organization's apparent goal) and, presumably, not
starting it. Or essentially, the anti-war movement has lost its way because a portion of it doesn't want to add fuel to narratives that will lead to more war. They
failed to condemn the military interventions of other countries in Syria... that were actually invited there by the government to oppose many of the same people the United States was (ISIS). And that are likely targets of the government which they operate under. Incredible.
The anti-war movement should be in the business of promoting hostility between countries that already have tense relations. Sounds legit!
Ooh, OK! So what's the non-sanitised version? I'm dying to know how it makes annexation and indiscriminate slaughter acceptable!
Who said it would?
Because to be very clear: you've been encouraging the route which involves the very most killing of independent reporters until now.
I've been encouraging the route which, if taken from the beginning, this wouldn't have even happened. And if taken now should result in a more or less immediate peace agreement. Is 'detente' not in your vocabulary?