Ukraine: what the Global South thinks

Would it be worth the West’s while to more clearly explain what its real bottom line is in Ukraine? Probably not. Nobody in the developing countries would believe it, even though it's true.

Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t like democracy, and has been very hostile when border countries have democratic revolutions. But the idea that he has embarked on some crusade to crush democracy—indeed, that his ambitions extend beyond the former borders of the old Soviet Union in any way—is simply ludicrous.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 27, 2023

LONDON, U.K.—There is a deep and growing rift between ‘the West’ and ‘the Rest’ about the need to resist and defeat the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is because it is really a war in defence of sovereignty, which ought to be something every sovereign country ca...

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