bs2> the question of NATO moving eastward is not the primary issue, because, after all, in 2004, #SergeyLavrov, who continues to be the foreign minister, and Mr. #Putin, who was even then the president, welcomed the Baltic states and other countries joining NATO. They joined NATO in 2004. The question is not #NATO by itself. The question is a sense of security.
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Vijay Prashad Criticizes the West’s “Open, Rank Hypocrisy” on Ukraine
As the Russian invasion in Ukraine enters its 50th day, we look at the war’s impact around the world with Vijay Prashad, author and director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. “When food prices go up, the political crisis is almost immediate,” says Prashad, who calls the U.S. pressure on Global South countries to cut off essential imports from Russia after a 30-year globalization campaign a double standard. He says if the U.S. encourages greater global division in order to isolate Russia and China, they will implicitly plunge developing countries “into even greater catastrophe.” He also says the West — led by the Biden administration — is pursuing a “casual weaponization of human rights and the word genocide.”