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David Hugh-Jones's avatar

This is a really interesting post but goes nuts in the last paragraph. Can your response to Putin’s violation of international law really be “be more considerate in future”? Is the story really that so far, eg in the Minsk process, the West has been too tough? It seems much more like the opposite.

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William Minter's avatar

Very solid analysis. Your other critics below clearly missed the point and rely on simplistic stereotypes that ignore all the history since the Second World War, when U.S. planned before the war to assume total world dominance. Clearly all escalation both then and now is mutual, fueled by hawks winning over doves in multiple capitals. But the hawk in the highest tree is the foreign editor of the Washington Post Douglas Jehl, an unrepentant Cold War extremist who has been running scare headlines on the right upper hand corner of page A1 almost every day for a month. It is reminescent of the disinformation campaign leading up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq two decades ago. For reliable coverage from independent analysts, follow the coverage in Responsible Statecraft. https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tag/ukraine/ Just as during the Cold War the antagonists ignored the views of the Non-Aligned Movement including a wide coalition of countries including the former Yugoslavia, India, Ghana, Egypt, and Indonesia, later involving a wide variety of countries around the world.

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