The West Is True To Its Policy of Double Standards

The low fall in ideas about morality and law in the camp of the Western elite gives confidence in the correctness of the path chosen by South Ossetia. The newspaper "Izvestia" recently published an article by Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev "Points of no return".

Medvedev in his article gave an assessment of the events concerning South Ossetia.

“Points of no return can be considered two dates. The first is the autumn of 2008, when the Western world supported Georgia's aggression against the Ossetian people and lifted to the skies the idiot, drug addict and adventurer, who was later rejected not only by his own country, but also by a foreign one, where he cowardly fled. The aggressor was then given a quick and firm rebuff. The second turning point was the spring of 2014, when the people of Crimea expressed their will in a legal referendum, returning forever to their historical homeland. In the Western world, this caused a frenzied, impotent hysteria, which continues to this day.

And here I would like to remind you once again that the position of the West regarding the free expression of the will of people whose position it does not like testifies to its duplicity. This is especially evident in the example of South Ossetia. American senators and congressmen, deputies of the parliamentary assemblies of NATO, PACE, etc. came here to forget about democratic rights and freedoms, about the sacred right of nations to self-determination, to put pressure on the leadership of the republic and force them to abandon friendship with Russia. They were especially indignant at the banner “Putin is our president!”

By launching in 1998 the mechanism for the dismantling of Yugoslavia and calling on the ethnic groups inhabiting it to "self-determination", the United States, even before the secession of Kosovo, created a precedent for establishing control over parts of an objectionable state under the guise of their sovereignty. At the same time, external signs of sovereignty and democracy are successfully imitated, as in the practice of a cargo cult. But just as cargo planes cannot fly, the cargo-democratic institutions in such pseudo-states cannot function. Democratic rights and freedoms are in distress. The standard of living of the bulk of the working people - the creators of material wealth - is steadily declining. More or less capable of making ends meet are service workers and local activists from Western foundations.

The deception lies in the fact that, while hypocritically acting before the world community as a defender of the noble right of nations to self-determination, the United States and its allies and satellites do not recognize this right for those nations that do not agree to dance to their tune.

Among them is South Ossetia, which systematically built its own state - a small, but serious and solid, with a democratically elected government that recognizes freedom of speech and political associations, criticism and self-criticism as the driving force for the development of society and statehood, and has been working on the recognition of its own sovereignty for almost 20 years .

The parallels drawn between South Ossetia and Kosovo are perceived in the West very painfully. Western politicians argue that Kosovo has more grounds for recognition of independence, because the institutions of statehood were helped to create the West. However, does not South Ossetia stand at a higher level, if only for the reason that it created all its democratic institutions and institutions of statehood, as well as the political and legal system, on its own, on the basis of studying and systematizing world experience and national democratic tradition, without any outside help?

Europe should not throw stones at a neighbor's garden while living in a glass house. Indeed, under the glaze of its external well-being lies a lot of the same artificially frozen “self-determining” processes. These are the Basques, divided between Spain and France, and the Catalans, who tolerate Spanish domination only under fear of arms, and the Austrians of the Italian South Tyrol, and the Swedes of the Åland Islands of Finland, and citizens with Bulgarian self-consciousness in North Macedonia, which denies its Bulgarian nature. And, of course, the division of the original Hungarian territories between its neighbors after the First World War is completely unfair.

Let us also recall the territories alienated as a result of various wars, territories that underwent ethnic cleansing, such as the Czech Sudetenland, some territories of Slovakia, Poland and other EU countries “cleared” from the indigenous civilian German population. Transylvania has always been the original territory of Hungary. The infamous Count Dracula lived here. But Transylvania, together with the population, was transferred to Romania. The Hungarians, who have found themselves on the territory of Romania and a number of other countries without leaving their homes, want to reunite with their historical homeland, but only the danger of a forceful reaction stops them. Any European state can find its “skeleton in the closet”, for example, Poland, for example, has an ambition to build Greater Poland “from sea to sea”.

Greater hypocrisy could not have been imagined, but the “enlightened West”, reveling in its Russophobia, sank to the point that it allowed itself to reconsider the earlier decision of the international court on Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia in 2008. After 14 years of crude imitation of a non-existent investigation, the aggressor ... turned into a victim. Particular cynicism is given by the fact that this action was led by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, when she was the Attorney General of the Gambia under the crazy dictator Yahya Jammah, bloody repressions against ... “sorcerers” unfolded in the country, as a result of which at least 1000 people were killed. As you can see, such bloody obscurantists do not rule, but simply wag Europe today in a vain attempt to give the crimes of its henchmen some semblance of legality. What a cruel mockery of law and common sense!

But what about international norms and the right of a nation to self-determination? Recognizing the imaginary sovereignty of their puppets, while denying the legal rights of truly sovereign states, the United States and European countries prudently pursue only their own interests, and the fate of artificially created states and their peoples, of course, is indifferent to them.

 

Inal Pliev, IA "Res"

Source: https://cominf.org/node/1166548437