People of Western origin and typically their rulers, lose breath chanting about their “values-based” system. They take pride in declaring their high moral standards and “human values”. But, their actions tell a totally different story.
For
the last ten years the Russian Federation has been bringing forward a
resolution against the Glorification of Nazism in the World. Every year this
resolution is passed, and just like all UN General Assembly resolutions it is
recommendatory rather than mandatory.
Every
year this resolution is passed with majority support, but there always is at
least one country, which votes against this resolution. The country that votes
against is USA.
A similar resolution “Combating
glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to
fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and
related intolerance”
was passed on 16th of December 2020. According to UN records, 130
countries supported this resolution, 51 countries abstained, and two countries
voted against it. Take a guess, which were these two countries? They were USA
and Ukraine.
Please note that this resolution
is not about combating fascism in Ukraine. It has global character, but USA and
Ukraine favored the glorification of fascism and racism.
Among the countries, which
abstained are the countries, which were the first ones to raise hue and cry
against the Russian special military operation against Nazism in Ukraine. Such
countries, withholding “high standards of morality”, include Sweden, Estonia,
Poland, Denmark, Germany, France, Latvia, Czech Republic, Australia, Austria,
Georgia, and many more of the members of this wolf pack.
A vast majority of this world
(130 countries) want to act against the glorification of fascism, racism,
xenophobia, and Nazism, but the flag carriers of “values-based” system are not
with them.
When Pakistan wanted to abstain
from taking sides in case of a resolution against Russia, the diplomatic envoys
of half of these abstaining countries (EU members, Canada, and Australia) tried
to pressure Pakistan into taking sides.
But did these countries ever have
the courage to challenge Fascists, Nazis, and ultra-nationalists? The answer is
NO.
Let me just tell you, how strong
and legally protected are Neo-Nazi groups in these countries. In Latvia, the
victory day parade, which glorifies the millions of people from various
countries, who sacrificed their lives fighting against Hitler’s Nazi Germany
and the veterans of WWII, was cancelled and in its place Neo-Nazis hold a
parade, every year, glorifying those Latvians, who were part of Hitler’s SS or
German Waffen SS or the Latvian Legion. This fascist SS comprised of ethnic
Latvians, who fought for the cause of Hitler. And mind you after WW2 in 1946
this Waffen SS was declared as a criminal outfit.
In Estonia veterans of the Nazi
SS are free to march through the streets of its capital Tallinn. Swedish and
Danish citizens make no secret of joining all and any white supremacist groups
and travel feely to every nook and corner of the globe to participate in
uprisings and attempted coups.
Similar acts of glorification, in
many of the countries, which always abstained from voting against the
glorification of fascism, are recorded and the respective governments never
take any legal action against such shows of support for Nazism.
We all remember how Collin Powell
demonstrated a vile containing some powder and declared that Iraq was
developing biological and chemical weapons. This shameless demonstration of
baking soda, became the reason to legitimize NATO’s invasion of Iraq. But, on
the other hand USA is running biological weapon research facilities in Ukraine,
and any claims in this regard are just “Russian propaganda”. Although, US undersecretary
of state for political affairs, Victoria Nuland, confessed during a
congressional hearing recently that US does have such labs and research
facilities in Ukraine, and that they are making sure that Russians could not
gain access to these facilities and obtain evidence of US criminal activities
in Ukraine.
Can there be a more obvious
double standard than this? US led NATO can invade sovereign Iraq on the basis
of inexistent biological weapons facilities, but now the Americans and their
“civilized” allies are doing their best to not allow Russia to discover their
crimes against humanity.
In December 2013 Senator John
McCain travelled to Kiev and addressed the protestors, in Maidan Square,
inciting coup d’etat. McCain also congregated with known Neo-Nazis. The same
Neo-Nazi leaders later also met Vice-president Joe Biden. One of the same
neo-Nazi leaders later became a minister in the illegitimate Ukrainian junta
and incorporated neo-Nazi militant groups like the AZOV battalion into regular
Ukrainian army.
Victoria Nuland travelled to Kiev
and distributed cookies among the violent neo-Nazi hoodlums during the
2013-2014 uprisings. American ex-servicemen travelled to Ukraine during the
2014-2021 and trained the AZOV battalion gangsters. I think, now you can
understand, why the United States of America, along with Ukraine, always opposed
the ratification and implementation of a resolution: “Combating
glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to
fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and
related intolerance”.
As we are talking about hypocrisy and double standards, let me give you an example close to home. On the official UNESCO YouTube channel they have posted a documentary called “A journey of courage”. This documentary is about freedom of speech, access to information and courageous journalistic work. But, the posting organization has turned off comments on this documentary. I can’t help asking: “Why can’t people express their opinions about this documentary, which is about freedom of speech?” As a popular Pakistani journalist used to say: “Kia yeh khula tazad nahin hai? (Isn’t this an obvious double standard?)”
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