bs2@strypey Vijay Prashad tells of a "near-peer" view from the #USA
> In 2018, the #Trump administration announced that the war on terror was over and that the full force of the United States government was now going to be to prevent #Russia and #China — .. what then-Defense Secretary #JimMattis called near-peer competitors — these near-peer competitors had to be prevented from rising. That was the #USdoctrine, has not pulled back by the #Biden administration.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/4/15/vijay_prashad_russia_ukraine_global_south
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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.”