Sunday 27 March 2022

Cannot Be Empowered?

Yemen has fought back so hard that the world has had to notice, even if for only one day. But pity poor Antony Blinken, whose lot in life it is to follow behind Joe Biden with a mop and bucket. Did the President of the United States mean to call for regime change in Russia? Or did he say it by accident? It must have been one or the other.

Most of the world is concerned with its own wars, which we ignore even when we are in them, whereas we are still not directly in the war in Ukraine, which is edging towards the solution that, had it been proposed five weeks ago, would have prevented the war itself. Indeed, even the war in the Donbas since 2014 would not have been waged if the emerging Ukrainian proposals had been made at the start.

When the UN General Assembly condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the countries that abstained or recorded no vote accounted for nearly half the population of the world. Add Russia and the countries that voted with Russia, and it was over half the people on the planet. Russia, India and China are now trading with each other in currencies other than the dollar. Even Saudi Arabia is talking about accepting yuan for oil. The only countries to have sanctioned Russia are in Europe (apart from the largest country in Europe, the capital of which is Europe's largest city), in North America, Australia, New Zealand, and the American military colonies of Japan and South Korea. Some "international community".

Will they mention Yemen at the Oscars? Or Somalia, which the United States is bombing? Or anywhere else where people did not "look like us"? As they denounce the regime in Russia, and there is a lot to denounce, will they also decry the Ukrainian shooting of prisoners of war in the legs, the use of newly killed teenage conscripts' phones to make mocking calls to their mothers, and the stripping of Roma children in order to beat them with dildos, so very reminiscent of the abuse of our own Child Q? That the perpetrators have managed to portray themselves as the Avengers is a Marvel, indeed.

2 comments:

  1. Small correction, the UN resolution was to 'deplore' the actions of Russia. Deplore is not as strong as condemn, the UN knew that if they had said 'condemn' there would have been even greater dissention.

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