VIEWPOINT | Anti-imperialists ignore Russia using Africans as cannon fodder

Column by Froma Harrop

Vladimir Putin doesn’t have enough Russians to maintain the full fury of his barbaric assault on Ukraine, so he is sending African workers and students to the frontlines, threatening the visas of those who won’t go. 

One must ask why the anti-Israel left, so sensitive to racist practices less obvious than this one, aren’t setting up tents and recharging their bullhorns to protest Russia’s war crimes. They just look the other way. 

In March, a handful of far-left reps joined the MAGA right in voting against helping arm Ukraine, a sovereign country that did not kidnap Russians, bomb them or otherwise attack their neighbor. They may say they don’t like what Russia is doing, but basically, not their problem.