Asharq Al-Awasat:

...We asked whether they would also demonstrate in front of the Russian Embassy in Bayswater, a posher part of London? 
 
The answer was a chagrined look all around. 
 
How could we not understand that in their Manichaean world the role of evil was reserved solely for the Western democracies?...
 
...Over the past decade or so Russia has waged war against Georgia, in Ossetia ad Abkhazia, attacked Ukraine, annexed the Crimean Peninsula, turned Chechnya into a pile of rubble and driven thousands out of their villages in Ingushetia and Dagestan without the Anti-War Coalition waving a single placard. When we come to Syria, the anti-war coalition, one of whose big beasts Jeremy Corbyn is now leader of the British Labour Party, deigns to remember that Russia has been bombing Syria, killing countless civilians, since 2015......
 
....... So what we have is a lukewarm war in which Russia’s assets consist mainly of the anti-West constituencies inside Western democracies plus the veto power that Russia has in the United Nations’ Security Council. 

In the case of Syria, the two become interlinked. This is why Corbyn, like his French counterpart Jean-Luc Melanchon, and other anti-West leaders in Europe, insist that any Western military intervention in Syria should first be ratified by the United Nations Security Council.....

Interestingly, they don’t demand that Russia’s military intervention should also be subject to approval by the UN Security Council. This is because Russia can never master a majority in the Security Council. (Its last resolution there last week, seeking to condemn the US-led missile attack on Bashar’s alleged chemical sites, won the votes only of China and Bolivia!)

In other words, the pro-Russia constituency in the West wants the Western democracies to give Moscow a veto on their policy without securing a similar advantage vis-à-vis Russia....
 

 

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