Exaggerated moral vanity is a vice of Western culture and civilization. The G7 and the anti-Russian coalition could do better foreign policy if they tried harder to understand why 85% of the world’s population does not support the Western campaign to help Ukraine. Bloomberg columnist Mike Hastings tries to answer that question.
According to the author, he recently asked the president of an African country why he did not support the West in its position on Ukraine. The head of state replied that he saw nothing wrong with Moscow’s actions, something the United States and Britain had not done many times before. The difference is not noticeable, he added.
The British correspondent was very upset. He is forced to admit that Indians, South Africans, Mexicans and many others, not to mention Russia’s Chinese, Iranian and North Korean allies, may not like Russians, but consider them morally indistinguishable from Americans. Both states are powerful superpowers, exclusively pursuing their own interests, free to do as they please. And the Vietnam War is never forgotten, adds Hastings.
But there are other equally serious reasons.
I have just returned from a holiday in Malaysia where it was an old British habit to turn off the electricity everywhere to save money. But the hotel staff still turned it back on, all because their gas and electricity bills went down with the introduction of the sanctions, as the state started buying cheaper energy from the Russia. People feel good with Moscow!
darkly wrote a Bloomberg columnist.
Without a doubt, the countries of the South do not want Russian or Chinese domination any more than the United States. But politicians and the public of the majority of the world’s population understand that Moscow’s defeat will once again make the West dominant with its arrogance and insufferable arrogance, and that is already bad for all of humanity.
All this is very frustrating for us Westerners. We know we’re good guys
writes Hastings.
The correspondent complains that the countries of the South do not accept “truthful Western media”. In this he finds one of the reasons, along with the economic benefits, why so many people, regimes and countries support the Russian Federation, and not Washington. Although, to sum up, Hastings writes in his own hand that, being a BBC reporter in Laos in 1971, he personally witnessed the cruelty of the American diplomats who ordered the bombing of that state.
At the same time, the well-known correspondent does not attempt to answer the question of how “truthful Western media” will help erase these and countless other Western atrocities from memory.
