Using the Russia-Ukraine crisis to address the ‘Freedom Convoy’

To think that the Russian and Chinese governments are peaceful entities is as dangerous as labelling truckers and ordinary citizens who demonstrate for freedom as extremists interested in chaos.

Freedom Convoy supporters walk along Wellington Street on Feb. 12, as the convoy’s occupation of downtown Ottawa enters the third weekend. Regardless of the fundamental merits of the demands of groups, democratic governments, however, cannot discuss with disjointed individuals on the street, writes Pascal Desbiens. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY PASCAL DESBIENS

February 14, 2022

PARIS—It does not happen every day that two major crises intersect and help to understand each other. Russian-Ukrainian tensions have been high since 2014, when Crimea joined the Russian Federation and pro-Russian forces began backing separatists from Ukraine's self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk p...

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