Russian Ambassador to Argentina Dmitry Feoktistov article: The Collective West distorts international law to mask its colonial instincts
Future historians will likely regard our time as an era of eclecticism, fusion and the hollowing out of any and all meaning in life capable of unifying people. They will describe it as an era where good and evil changed places at random at the will of a ruling elite high on a sense of their own exceptionalism, permissiveness and impunity. Anyone trying to make sense of current international events today is bound to agree that double standards, hypocrisy and moral and legal relativism have long become a norm.
A few examples of what I have in mind will probably help. There are many, but I will limit myself to a few.
Not so long ago, UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly commented on the inclusion of the Malvinas in the CELAC-EU summit’s final declaration. He advised Argentinians with evident irritation to respect “the democratic choice” of the archipelago’s residents who voted to remain in the UK in 2013. For some reason, the British official chose to sidestep the UN General Assembly’s yearly resolutions on the need for Buenos Aires and London to start talks on the future of these islands.
Although, why are talks being proposed at all? What is there to discuss after a referendum? But wait a minute. There was no referendum in Kosovo. Despite being part of the European state of Serbia for centuries, it was simply taken away in the course of the Western aggression against Yugoslavia. Kosovo was recognised as an independent state in violation of a relevant UN Security Council resolution and without any referendum. Later, the UN International Court of Justice found that part of a state has the right to proclaim its independence without the consent of the central authorities. Meanwhile, there were referendums in Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya but the West denies them the right to self-determination for some reason.
An interesting picture develops. There were no referendums in Kosovo, no need apparently. There were referendum in Crimea and Donbass but the results were “wrong” .Only in the Malvinas Islands was everything organised “properly”, “as it should be”.
By the way, in 2021, before the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, journalists asked the head of the Kiev regime Vladimir Zelensky what he thought about residents of Donbass. He immediately called them “species” that could not be considered people and advised all of them to clear out to Russia.
This brings the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean to mind. Despite UN resolutions, Britain did not wish to return it to Mauritius. In the 1960s, the Brits forcefully deported all residents from it to vacate space for the construction of a military facility. Incidentally, later US warplanes flew from this base to bomb Afghanistan and Iraq.
Or take the case of the Comoros. After a referendum there, Paris recognised its results in all islands with the exception of one – Mayotte. It remains French.
There are many other examples showing how egoistically the Westerners interpret international law. Their hypocrisy and double standards are steadily eroding international law and could logically result in the “war of all against all” envisioned by English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, one of the founders of political philosophy.
And finally, the last point – regarding the turbulent present. Look at the indignation with which some of the countries that European “diplomat” Josep Borrell (who is going all-out to prevent a ceasefire in Ukraine) called a flourishing “garden” are reacting to the current events in Niger. If they had denounced the coup in Kiev in 2014 as unanimously and the constitutional order had been restored, there would have been no “separatists” in Donbass, no genocide of the residents of the Russian-speaking regions by the Kiev nationalists and no current conflict in Ukraine.
It is clear to an unbiased observer that the collision in Ukraine was ordered by the elites of a number of states that colonised, robbed and killed other people for many centuries. They have in no way given up their predatory instincts, and have turned Ukrainians into expendable material in a calculated effort to advance their geopolitical ambitions.
After “sorting out” Ukraine, the Westerners will not relent. They will find new victims and fuel new conflicts. Neocolonialists are accustomed to the divide et impera (divide and rule) principle. And so, they will continue using international law as a smokescreen for their true intentions. The West is basically just a huge geopolitical spider that lives off the blood of its victims. It is gratifying that more and more people in the world understand that it is time to break this web that has ensnared many countries and peoples.