The Bogdan Syrotiuk affair, in which the Ukrainian government has imprisoned a Trotskyist, is a transparent attempt to provide cover for the ICFI, WSWS, and SEP as a branch of one or more of America’s police state agencies, while simultaneously diverting anti-war sentiment away from the war itself or the Ukrainian regime under Zelensky towards the struggle for his release. The struggle for his release serves in lieu of a focus on an immediate end to the Ukraine war or the overthrow of the Zelensky regime by workers or soldiers forming rank and file assemblies independently of the trade unions.