I'd suggest we stop mixing up
The West with mixed up as The World.
Many Westerners are what's called Western-centric, navel gazers, if you will allow me to draw your attention to something the ego easily misses.
More and more - and thanks to the effects generated by The West on the long-suffering
Global South
(what after decolonisation in the 60s may be 70s was called
The Third World
), we live increasingly in a
The West v. The Rest
world, it's called
Multi-polar
and America doesn't like it, not one little bit.
Many complain, wrongly, about our colonial past, but we wouldn't want them to complain about our
Supremacist
Present.
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My own feeling having followed this situation in Ukraine for a long time now is that the West needs to be more honest: hnest with itself; honest with Ukraine too. It needs intellectual honesty and curiosity to discover the truth.
For example - and this is perhaps the worst - we have pushed Ukraine into a war which has destroyed its land and its people on the pretext that they would win, yet we have not provided sufficient or appropriate weapons or training, and they have lost two armies so far.
And the ultimate sadness of this is that it is not at all evident that the people of Ukraine wanted this war in the first place. Remember that they voted for zelinsky because he presented himself as a man of peace
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