Call it semantics, call it doublespeak call it
hypocrisy yet "This is not our war" betrays the
universal pledge when the horrified world
saw images of skeletal remains of a people
destroyed in a blueprint of state-ordered
genocide; a war against the existence of Jews
on the world body. When does 'not our war'
become 'our moral duty' to step forward to save
a people from extinction? The smug words are
there; condemnation from a global body whose
member-states abhor and deplore a despotic
member-state's brutal assault on a neighbour.
But intervene to block the bloody carnage?
When the extremely vital issue of global trade
and oil and gas exports are involved? Wonderful
it is that the world has at its lead a powerful
moral force capable of convincing the free and
the brave to assemble to forcefully oppose the
imperialist conquest. But wait: that world power
appears to have benignly abandoned its pride of
liberty for others smiling benevolently the while.
This brave new world now looks on with awe and
admiration at a people desperately struggling to
survive a lethal invasion by an indomitable power.
And everywhere prayers are invoked for their
success, entirely up to themselves, abandoned
to their fate as conflict drags on and a fickle
world looks elsewhere other than Battlefield
Ukraine for its random entertainment.
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