The danger of hypocrisy in Western views on Ukraine
The core of the principle that needs to be adhered to is to oppose the seeds of war in whatever form they take.
Ronald Benjamin
The joint statement from the ambassadors, high commissioners and designates of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the UK, and the ambassador of the EU delegation on the Russian invasion of Ukraine seems to sound more hypocritical and ideological than moral.
“It states that freedom is a universal right – freedom to live in peace and security; freedom of speech; freedom to vote and elect legislative representatives and the government. These freedoms are enshrined in the United Nations (UN) Charter, to which there are 193 signatories worldwide, including all our countries and the 10 members of Asean.
Tragically, these basic freedoms are under threat in Ukraine – a sovereign state and UN member since 1991, and the second largest country in Europe (by area).
“If we do not work together to stop the atrocity in Ukraine, we will be making it easier for Putin and Russia to fulfil their despicable aims in egregious breach of international law. Failure to do so will weaken the democratic foundations and principles that underpin our global network of liberty and democracy, based on international law.
“Global freedom, democracy and rights depend on how we all respond to this threat.”
One wonders why such forceful condemnation does not apply to Israel which continues to deny the Palestinians inalienable rights for statehood. Why there are no global and effective sanctions against Israel when it rains bombs indiscriminately on the unarmed Palestinians? Even if the Palestinians provoked the Israelites, it is due to the Zionist regime’s blatant settlement and occupation of their land.
The core of the principle that needs to be adhered to is to oppose the seeds of war in whatever form they take, whether the form of a Cold War-based alliance expanding to borders of countries that resist it, or the short-sightedness of ideologically simplifying issues to a fight between democracy and authoritarian rule by demonising nations that do not kowtow to Western hegemony.
The truth is, people suffer injustice around the world due to the selective nature of proclaiming justice at the global level.
The Ukrainians and Palestinians suffer a common effect of war and injustice.
It is time for the West to stop picking and choosing issues of human rights that suit its ideological or hegemonic stand. This should be done by ensuring equitable justice in a global system that takes the security fears of all nations into consideration.
The Russian state should be condemned for war on a sovereign state, and the West should be condemned for expanding a Cold War entity such as Nato to the eastern part of Europe that has provoked Russia towards war.
This is something the Western ambassadors have not addressed in their statement. It is time the West opens its eyes to its own hypocrisy.
The people of Poland, Hungary ( search for Hungary 1956), Romania, Czech Republic (search for Alexander Dubcek and how the Prague Spring was crushed), Slovakia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, understood very clearly and realistically what it was like to live under Soviet Russian domination.
ReplyDeleteThey also understood very clearly the future danger they were in if they remained alone as individual nations , from the rise of a Russian despot.
Hence their push to join the EU and NATO.
Thus has come to pass much sooner than anybody expected. The future is here , 2022.
These ex Warsaw pact members joined NATO for indoctrinated fear of the SU revival!
DeleteIndoctrinated bcoz they couldn't believe a socialist state CAN coexist in peace with a democratic outfits!
A meme-ed theme planted deep & well-groomed by the US, so that the Yank could keep his sopo-economic leadership in a planned warfront far far away from his home ground.
These blurred lemmings could NEVER come to their senses that they r the frontlined sacrifices so that war could never arises in their master's land.
Oligarchs r not just made in Russia &/or socialist states. They r the richly-awarded quislings nurtured by the Yank to instigate his demoNcratic narratives. They work at the instructions of the Yank.
So any wonder, once the Warsaw pact was resolved following the collapse of SU, suddenly all these oligarchs appear within such a short time & could control all the once lucrative national resources/businesses of these ex-SU member states.
The western media would propagate the stories that these oligarchs r the proxies of the elite echelon leaders of the old SU.
Wakakakaka… how wrong could the truth be.
Just reflect back to how Putin singlehandedly redressed those Russian oligarchs when he took over the Russian presidency. With that redressing of the oligarchs, only then the new Russia is reformed with a new lease of life!
Otherwise, Russia federation would go the way of Ukraine after the dissolution of SU. A once mighty & proud nation falls to the grave bcoz of miscalculation of Gorbachev in buying Bush senior's capitalistic fart!
Ronald Benjamin , you should listen to Vladimir Putin's own words.
ReplyDeleteThe invasion of Ukraine wasn't ultimately about objecting to NATO expansion.
It is to recreate Greater Russia.
You are endorsing that ?
Wakakakaka…
DeleteWhen did Putin said it?
Which part of his speeches mentioned that?
Oooop… perhaps u r listening to the england 'translation' from CNN/BBC during Putin's speech!
No surprises, indeed!