Mikhail Khodorkovsky says that support for Israel should not come at the expense of Ukraine
Both are fronts in an intensifying fight against global lawlessness, argues the former political prisoner
WE LIVE IN an era when the resolve of democratic states is being tested in the most extreme ways. The fighting in Ukraine continues unabated after that democratic country was invaded by Vladimir Putin’s terrorist state. Now Israel has been forced into war following the barbaric massacre on October 7th of Israeli civilians by Hamas, a non-state terrorist actor backed by the terrorist state of Iran.
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