Posted on 03/17/2022 4:03:54 PM PDT by FarCenter
The Russia-Ukraine crisis has rapidly been established by Western commentators as a tipping point in global affairs, supposedly signifying a new world order.
This is largely addressed from two archaic angles. First, a deepening of existing world order, with America and Europe aligned on one side, and Russia and China aligned on the other. Second, the fear that the West is losing its grip on the world, and that is a significant threat to global security.
There is however a more contemporary angle that is being missed: amid the tragedy, the birth of a new world order that may be better equipped to prevent and resolve crises like Russia-Ukraine. Why? Because it will be a world with more equal power-sharing that will no longer be dictated by the narrow interventionist interests of the West.
These interventions have spanned the tragedies of the 21st century, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Yemen, yet these did not elicit the pious posturing of Europeans and Americans as Russia-Ukraine has. The mindset remains the same: wars are justified and tolerated if led by the West because it supposedly has a noble mission.
This is reinforced by propaganda about liberating repressed peoples from fascists, communists, or religious fanatics, which helps the Western public disregard atrocities committed by their governments. This willful ignorance is also fueled by a deep-seated belief in the Western public's psyche that white lives are more precious than those of others living in shithole countries. The hypocrisy and racism of reporting on Russia-Ukraine has made this abundantly clear.
For the first time, this duplicity has been exposed to the global majority by social media. Hundreds of thousands of videos have reached every corner of the world, as Arabs, Indians, Chinese, Africans, South Americans have the scale of this hypocrisy made crystal clear.
(Excerpt) Read more at asia.nikkei.com ...
“This willful ignorance is also fueled by a deep-seated belief in the Western public’s psyche that white lives are more precious than those of others living in shithole countries. The hypocrisy and racism of reporting on Russia-Ukraine has made this abundantly clear.”
Holy Shite...did AOC write this editorial ?
Yum - morning propaganda!
Thanks, Tokyo Rose!
/massive eyeroll
There, fixed it for ya. Exhibit A: Way more talk is done about the Japanese casualties of the atom bomb (dropped by the U.S.) than the many, many times more Chinese civilian casualties killed by Japan.
The Nikkei, formally The Nihon Keizai Shimbun (日本経済新聞, lit. "Japan Economics Newspaper"), is the flagship publication of Nikkei, Inc. (based in Tokyo) and the world's largest financial newspaper, with a daily circulation exceeding three million. The Nikkei 225, a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, has been calculated by the newspaper since 1950.
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This is true.
It’s an indictment of the liberal point of view.
The author doesn’t realize this and I’m sure has a wrong conclusion and analysis.
But the observation of left/liberal racism is true.
Liberals never stop talking about their imaginary wounds.
Liberals are boring.
Who do you think Tokyo Rose was?
Given the US leadership these days don’t you think Japan might kowtow to China?
I suppose Israelis (Jews) are included and lumped into “Westerners” also right?
IIRC, the only people complaining about the genocide in Rwanda, were White people.
This article fails miserably on so many levels.
Sounds like he's also the CFO, CIO, and Chief Bottle Washer.
Pretty correct article. Cluntoons failure to intervene in Rwanda a classic example. 100 days. 800,000 butchered. 8000 for every day Cluntoon waffled about some pious values bullshit.
Complained about it. But what did they do about it,?
Westerners, are by and large, a bunch of selective outrage hypocrites. Hate to say it. But it is true
“Because it will be a world with more equal power-sharing that will no longer be dictated by the narrow interventionist interests of the West.”
People of varying strengths and weaknesses are at heart very competitive, it’s nature. Things will never be “equal”.
I don’t recall anybody doing anything about it.
100%!
The whole “equity” push by corporations is starting to fizzle and crack this society.
Some people are just not capable of leadership and don’t have the IQ or intellect to do it.
FACT!
Clinton did not want to go into Rwanda. He didn’t want US troops getting into firefights with blacks and have news pics of lots of dead blacks.
He did NOT want to get involved in a repeat of Bush’s 1992 Somalia adventure.
Rwanda would have required huge numbers of US troops.
Also a lot more talk about the Japan A bomb deaths than the bombing casualties in Germany.
Define “The West”.
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