“What’s remarkable is the unspoken pact among the Western news media to report it all so uncritically.”

“We must at least pretend there’s international law and fairness and basic rules, because it reassures us that we live in a world where raw power doesn’t ultimately rule.”

“Money and hard power count, and that’s that. The big players have it, and the smaller players play along. If we need the anaesthetic liquor of self-delusion to deal with it, well, drink up.”
The Ukraine crisis through the whimsy of international law

When it comes to the standoff in Ukraine, there is enough diplomatic hypocrisy on both sides to make even a Lewis Carroll hurtle back down the rabbit hole, Neil Macdonald writes.

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