Two Ravenous Hyenas, Snarling at Each Other Over a Carcass
Published at 20:11 on 4 March 2014
That’s what the brouhaha between Russia and the West over Ukraine strikes me as.
Really: the country that went into Iraq in an invasion of choice, and whose purportedly “opposition” party leaders refuse to even entertain the thought of prosecuting those responsible, acting as if it has some sort of principled moral objection to imperialist land grabs? It is to laugh.
And on the other side, the country that was so purportedly upset in principle when the West grabbed a chunk of Serbia, doing basically the same thing to the Ukraine? Statecraft, thy name is rank hypocrisy.
If that uprising had toppled a pro-Western regime, you can bet that the same talking heads bleating in unison about national sovereignty would instead be bleating in unison about the need to “restore order” via military intervention.
Pay no attention to the rhetoric; the words have no meaning in any real sense. It’s just how the hyenas snarl.