When did the left become pro-war?

I wrote this two years ago in 2020 but I didn’t publish it because I hoped that I was wrong

Screenshot Ukraine’s President Zelensky is calling for the US and it’s allies to enforce a no-fly zone, which would literally begin WWIII. Now leftists are also calling for that same thing, thinking they are being humanitarian, not realizing they are playing into the hands of the military industrial complex.

*Trigger Warning* War, violence, bloodshed, bombs, death, refugees, rape

I hoped I was wrong. Looking at the world now, I’m heartbroken to see how accurate my 2020 analysis actually was.

Here it is, my analysis from 2020:

It feels like whiplash.

I woke up one morning and all I saw in my social media feed was war war war, let’s send troops here, let’s get involved over there, let’s bomb the world. All coming from my own leftist community members, who are supposedly anti-imperialist.

What the hell.

I remember marching against the Iraq war as a teenager. I remember marching against the war in Afghanistan. I remember holding vigils, mourning all the needless deaths of these greedy wars for fossil fuels and other resources. We were all leftists resisting those wars, people who believed in the rights of different peoples to decide their own fate in their own countries. The left was anti-war and anti-imperialist and proud of it.

A lot of people seem to have forgotten those days.