A cartoon of a white woman saying I can't believe Russia is doing this in Europe
[Patrick Gathara/Al Jazeera]


It has been impossible to miss the shock among Caucasian journalists covering the war, sparked by Russia’s invasion under the pretext of supporting ethnic allies in the eastern tribal enclaves of Donetsk and Luhansk, which it has recognised as independent states, at the idea that this could happen in Europe.


“They seem so like us. That is what makes it so shocking … War is no longer something visited upon impoverished and remote populations. It can happen to anyone,” wrote Daniel Hannan in the UK’s The Telegraph. “We are in the 21st century, we are in a European city, and we have cruise missile fired as if we were in Iraq or Afghanistan, can you imagine,” a commentator wailed on French TV.

Reporting from the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, Charlie D’Agata, a correspondent with CBS News in the US, declared Ukraine “isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades … This is a relatively civilised, relatively European – I have to choose those words carefully, too – city, where you wouldn’t expect that or hope that it’s going to happen.” He later apologised.

When covering events in the US during the Donald Trump administration, especially the 2020 elections, reporters would regularly exclaim that such chaos was expected of the “Third World”, not the US. “America is a Third World country now” was a headline of Fortune magazine following the unhinged first presidential debate between Trump and his eventual successor, Joe Biden.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov declared: “These are not the refugees we are used to. These are people who are Europeans, so we and all other EU countries are ready to welcome them. These are … intelligent people, educated people … So none of the European countries is afraid from the immigrant wave that is about to come.”

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki also said: “We will accept anyone who needs it. The Ukrainian society gets more afraid and stressed. We are ready to accept tens, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees.” This is while his country continues to deny entry to mostly Iraqi, Afghan and Syrian migrants and asylum seekers on its border with Belarus.

In the UK, which has contemplated pushing back non-white refugees into the English Channel, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reportedly said Ukrainians can go in visa-free if they already have family there.
The irony of European powers taking in refugees created by Russia’s aggression while shutting out those generated by their own invasions and occupations is apparently also lost on them. As is the fact that while Russia is condemned as it should be for invading someone else’s country, the same countries shouting the loudest about international law and the UN Charter and resolutions are happy to ignore Apartheid Israel doing exactly the same thing to Palestinians. No calls for sanctions or isolation there. No celebration of the bravery of people in Gaza and the occupied West Bank in standing up for their freedom against a brutal occupier.

But then again, Israel did not invade a white European country, and we know they think certain behaviour is acceptable, and to be expected, when directed against people on other continent
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/3/1/covering-ukraine-a-mean-streak-of-racist-exceptionalism

The World need PEACE COS PEACE IS HONOURABLE AND GLORIOUS.

RUSSIA SHOULD PLEASE SHIELD HER SWORD AND RESPECT THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS TO GROW AND DEVELOP IN HER OWN WAY OF A SOVEREIGN NATION LIKE UKRAINE.

orisa37:
RUSSIA SHOULD PLEASE SHIELD HER SWORD AND RESPECT THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS TO GROW AND DEVELOP IN HER OWN WAY OF A SOVEREIGN NATION LIKE UKRAINE.

Tell that to Libya people after NATO destroyed it

seunny4lif:

Tell that to Libya people after NATO destroyed it

Copy to VLADIMIR FREAKING PUTIN.

Indeed. Psycho Putin war exposed how they all are people upstairs.

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seunny4lif:

Tell that to Libya people after NATO destroyed it

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Most Russia propagandists have no logical point to out through. Why don't you coward Putin pick on a real army like NATO? Oh wait their silly posturing only targets weak nations which do not have significant military capabilities.

Aljazeera is trying in this regard

vedaxcool:
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Most Russia propagandists have no logical point to out through. Why don't you coward Putin pick on a real army like NATO? Oh wait their silly posturing only targets weak nations which do not have significant military capabilities.

The question you should be asking is why has the coward NATO yet to confront Russia militarily over Ukraine. We saw how they intervened in the Bosnian war by enforcing a no fly zone even without U.N imprimatur. So they should enforce a no-fly zone on Russia too by engaging Russian aircraft over Ukrainian airspace at least they are more powerful than Russia. I just pity the clown Zelensky who is not wise to see what is really happening allowing the west to use him as pawn.

Russia said it does not want NATO on its doorstep. Why is Nato so adamant? There is always a room for compromise for peace to reign but is Nato willing to do that?

But there was agreement that Nato Won't expand eastward after the dissolution of USSR then why did nato set aside that agreement? The admission of the Baltic states into the alliance in 2004 didn't go well with Britain, France, Germany and Italy cause they knew it could trigger Russia's paranoia in the future but uncle sam won't listen Nato is a means to expand the american empire to every corner.

Nato is nothing but a thuggery association that is hell bent on encircling russia and reducing its influence to nothing. What Russia is doing to Ukraine was what U.S wanted to do to Cuba when U.S intelligence discovered Cuba was hosting USSR's nukes in 1962 thank God that the Russian leader Nikita Kruschev gave room for negotiation.

You will just be proving nonsense. If we are russian propagandists then you and your ilk are western propagandist but the truth is there for you to see.

OP is a terrorist that always support killing of Nigerians by police