
How the Cold War and now the War in Ukraine have Justified Abuse of Human Rights, Inhumane Sanctions, and Abuse of Power
7:34 AMIn the past, the US government and its allies justified their
support to colonial, apartheid regimes in Africa, and their placement of self-determination
movements and figures, like the ANC and Nelson Mandela, by the “cold War”
conditions. They care for countering communism more than they cared for human
rights.
Today, the US administration and its Western allies are operating
with the same mentality: Countering Russia and China comes before respect for
human rights and comes before remediation for past crimes and abuses.
These self-interested approaches are short-sighted, bigoted,
and offensive to the people who were subjected to hundreds of years of Darwinian
colonialism.