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2022-03-25 Europe

Edward Luce, Financial Times: "The West is rash to assume the world is on its side over Ukraine"

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Posted by Slineling Chusong5031 2022-03-25 07:24|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Yeah, cause invading another sovereign nation doesn't bother any of them. See - depends upon who's ox is getting gored.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-25 12:22|| 2022-03-25 12:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Doesn't bother us, either. Why is this our business? We're the United States of America, not the World Police force. Mind our own damned business for once. No more wars.

Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2022-03-25 13:15|| 2022-03-25 13:15|| Front Page Top

#3 invading another sovereign nation
Like Iraq? Your lack of self-awareness is comical.
Did you even read what Edward Luce of the FT had to say?
Here, I'll summarise for you:

"the world’s ambivalence should give Biden and Europe food for thought. The west’s habitual tendency to claim moral leadership creates three problems.

First, it is hypocritical. US public opinion paid little attention to the horrific carnage in Syria, for which Assad is primarily culpable. Thousands of civilians died in Iraq and Afghanistan from US munitions.

A second point is that the west is rash to assume its values are universal. The US this week designated what Myanmar did to its Rohingya minority as genocide. Though Myanmar, unlike Ukraine, is in India’s neighbourhood, Narendra Modi, India’s Hindu nationalist prime minister, made only token protests. The fact that the Rohingya are Muslim undoubtedly influenced him.

A third is that much of the world resents western sanctions [which have] reminded others of the west’s capacity to punish those with whom it disagrees.

Posted by Wheasing Turkeyneck3481 2022-03-25 13:18|| 2022-03-25 13:18|| Front Page Top

#4 "At the UN, 141 of 193 member states condemned Putin...but the 35 that abstained account for almost half the world’s population. That includes China, India, and South Africa. If you add those that voted with Russia, it comes to more than half."

Posted by Vespasian Omereque5237 2022-03-25 14:47|| 2022-03-25 14:47|| Front Page Top

#5 All countries where the populace’s votes don’t matter, dear Vespasian Omereque5237 — the ruling class pretty much does as it pleases.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-25 22:40|| 2022-03-25 22:40|| Front Page Top

#6 The opinion of the UN? A thing for which I give not a poot!

Posted by SteveS 2022-03-25 23:45|| 2022-03-25 23:45|| Front Page Top

#7 All countries where the populace’s votes don’t matter, dear
Surely you mean the US, chérie

Posted by Vespasian Omereque5237 2022-03-25 23:52|| 2022-03-25 23:52|| Front Page Top

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