You can't do democracy in the middle of a war

Anti-imperialists have always condemned the kind of referendum Russia wants to hold in Zaporizhzhia.

Yevgeny Balitsky, appointed by Russia to head its occupation regime in Zaporizhzhia, has ordered a referendum this fall on joining the Russian Federation. I have not seen Russia’s apologists in the US media acknowledge that this is happening yet, which is always their first line of defense when Russia does something terrible in Ukraine; but when they fi…