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International law being wantonly violated

FAROUK ARAIE| Western powers’ hands not clean in Ukraine onslaught

Western nations are pouring military aid to Ukraine, thereby risking a massive nuclear exchange with Russia. Nato leaders have never witnessed the horrors of a nuclear war. Putin must also be warned that any nuclear assault will kill over 2-billion in the Northern hemisphere. Selective morality and historical amnesia are now part of  Western strategy in its attempt to contain and defeat Russia as an imperial European power. When the then Soviet Union, and now Russia, intervened militarily in the affairs of other nations, the Western Alliance remained impassive. The killings of innocent civilians in major conflict zones are brushed aside by the West when their allies are involved.

Every major power, from Russia to a combination of Nato nations, violated every rule pertaining to warfare permissible under International Law. Weapons outlawed under international treaties, including radioactive uranium-enhanced weapons, were used to attain victory but ultimately the terrain and the combat and survival skills of the Afghans defeated the most powerful nations in recorded history...

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