Do CounterPunch, Março 24, 2022 Por DAVID VAN DEUSEN Shelled residential buildings in Kharkiv Oblast. Photograph Source: State Emergency Service of Ukraine – CC BY 4.0 Vladimir Putin’s Russia is motivated by imperialist ambitions and is rightly condemned by most for its military aggression against Ukraine. This is not a war of ideology for Putin. Russia is no longer the Soviet Union, but rather an authoritarian capitalist state where only Putin and the Oligarchs wield power. In a word, this is a war of empire. The death and destruction we see raining down on the Ukrainian people today are appalling...