Wars come and go. Some are remembered because of the “who” that participated in them, and some are remembered because of the “why” someone participated in them.
Those who participate in a war do not always engage in
the “kinetic” part of the exercise. Instead, their engagement can range from
the moral support for one combatant or the other, to the training and arming of
their soldiers.
History records everything that’s known about a war, from
the “Who” to the “Why” to the other “Ws” associated with it. But as time
passes, people tend to retain only the things that impressed them the most when
they studied, lived through or read about the war.
This is what will happen with the war that’s ongoing at
this time; the one they call Ukraine War. There are many things to remember
about this war, but with the passage of time, what will be retained the most,
is the double-standard that has fueled its conduct, and exposed the bankruptcy
of Western morality.
The fact that this war took place at a time when the one
on Palestine is ongoing without any attempt to restrain it, has exposed Western
morality to be a bagful of such toxic hypocrisy, it would kill all lifeforms if
dumped in the vastest of oceans. It is that aid and comfort is given to the
Ukrainian underdog that’s battling the Russian giant, at the same time that aid
and comfort is given to the Israeli giant that’s crushing the Palestinian
underdog and robbing him of his meager possessions.
Whereas respect for human rights is the criterion by
which the West claims to judge the governments that do not adhere to the
so-called democratic system of governance, that same West has not formulated a
system by which to gauge how well governments that claim to adhere to democracy,
respect the human rights of their own citizens, and those it may have under its
control, such as the situation in occupied Palestine.
For this reason, we can only rely on the anecdotal
evidence which has it that people in the so-called democracies have a greater
chance at being cancelled and seeing their lives ruined if they deliberately or
by accident violate the amorphous rules of political correctness. Which explains
why it is that new commers to the democracies find that the life they left
behind in the so-called autocracy, was more liberating than the one they met in
the co-called democracy, not knowing what they were getting into when they
decided to migrate from East to West.
This is the landscape that makes up the background
against which unfolds the double-pronged drama of giving more help to those who
may or may not need it, while inflicting more punishment on the innocent who
already suffer enormously. And these are the realities that will go down in
history to reflect the true nature of the times in which we live.
A small fraction of what the West is doing to help the
people of Ukraine fight against and survive the invading Russian army, is
described in an article that came under the title: “US and allies attack
‘fortress Russia’ with major economic offensive,” written by Joel Gehrke and
Misty Severti, and published on February 26, 2022 in The Washington Examiner.
A condensed version of that article reads as follows:
“President Biden is
targeting Russia’s central bank with restrictions that will leave Moscow
defenseless against sanctions while officials expel Russian banks from the
global financial system in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine. An official
told reporters: ‘What we're doing here is disarm the Central Bank.’ The new
restrictions will prevent Russian officials from exchanging their US and
Canadian dollars, as well as their euros for Russian currency held overseas.
This will undercut the value of the ruble. The Central Bank restrictions
accompanied an announcement that the EU has agreed to cripple Putin’s ability
to finance his war machine by expelling a certain number of Russian banks from
SWIFT. ‘We’ll continue imposing costs on Russia,’ Western leaders said. ‘We
stand with the Ukrainian people … We are prepared to take further measures to
hold Russia to account … We must spare no effort to make the invasion of
Ukraine costly for Putin, Russian elites, and the Russian economy.’”
When you see how easy it is for the Western leaders to
come together and tighten the noose on someone, thus force them to change
behavior, you understand that the West always had the means to prevent the Jews
from turning the occupation of Palestine into the genocidal situation that it
is today.
Worse, not only did the West fail to tighten the noose on
Israel, it showered the Jews with money and the most hellish of weapons while
at the same time tightening the noose on the unarmed Palestinians for
exercising their right to fight off the genocidal occupation of their people
and their country with stones, weather balloons and kites.
History will not be kind to the practitioners of the
double-standard that have it in their power to do for Palestine a fraction of a
fraction what they are doing for Ukraine, which will be enough to end the
occupation that has been ongoing for 55 years.