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‘West is best mentality’: US secretary of state Hilary Clinton visits Tripoli in October 2011. Libya was reduced to a failed state.
COLD WAR

OPINION| History, US and Nato’s push against the ‘East’ drives Ukraine war

From Russia’s perspective — since the east Slavic state of Kievan-Rus circa 1053 to the betrayals of 1812, 1914 and 1941 and the broken promises from 1994, especially 2008 and…

  • Ian Liebenberg
16 min read
Despite its status as the world’s largest humanitarian disaster, the international community has largely failed to respond in a meaningful way to the carnage. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)
CHINA

Understanding the war in Ukraine

The US is more concerned with inflicting pain on the Russians than helping the Ukrainians, according to a Kyiv-based journalist

  • Vijay Prashad
8 min read