2022-10-12 18:01:41
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
Recent events have once again (for the umpteenth time) demonstrated the collective West’s
egregious double standards.
The terrorist attack committed by the Ukrainian special services on the Crimean Bridge −
a cynical attack on critical civilian infrastructure − came as a litmus test.
One might wonder HOW anyone can even come up with words of justification. Again and again, Kiev's actions go beyond the very concept of civilised behaviour of states, not to mention international law.
It turns out you can. Well, if you really want to, and if we are talking about a puppet regime, which, with the connivance of its continental and overseas backers, is now allowed to act as it pleases. After all, Western figures, who pay lip service to human rights, are looking the other way when it comes to
killings of hundreds and thousands of innocent people, whose only guilt is their desire to speak Russian and call themselves Russians. This has been going on in Donbass for eight years now.
The OSCE, once a pillar of European (in the broadest sense) security, now transformed into a set of
marginalised Russophobes, has recently put on a show.
The OSCE leadership (the Polish OSCE Chairmanship and OSCE Secretary General Helga Schmid) refrained from commenting on the incident. It has become customary for the OSCE
not to notice Ukrainian crimes.
In fact, the OSCE missions from Germany, Latvia and Lithuania
justified the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge.
German Permanent Representative
Gesa Brautigam responded to the tweet posted by the Russian Permanent Mission to the OSCE about the terrorist attack on the bridge as follows:
“You must have misunderstood something. Ukraine alone − like any sovereign state − can build infrastructure on its territory. You just shouldn't build a bridge on someone else's territory without asking.”
The Lithuanians supported the German Permanent Representative stating that Gesa Brautigam was right and
“If a criminal breaks into your house and starts building something there, sooner or later both his unwanted constructions and himself will be kicked out! Crimea is Ukraine.”
Permanent representative of Latvia Katrina Kaktina was particularly “creative” posting a tweet by the Latvian Textile Factory with a photo of a tote bag with a print of the blown up Crimean Bridge and an inscription in Ukrainian “What happened?” The tweet came along with a statement from the factory in Latvian:
“We couldn’t stay away. This is our dedication to the event, which we will talk about for a long time now saying time and time again “What happened?”
At the same time, the legitimate reaction of our country to the terrorist attacks perpetrated by the Kiev regime, which had lost what was left of its reason and conscience, caused immediate “condemnation” from the collective West and organisations influenced by it.
The OSCE leadership
immediately responded to the Russian Aerospace Forces’ strikes on targets in Ukraine on October 10, and the Polish chairmanship convened a special meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council that very morning.
Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General
Stephane Dujarric also made his “position” known by proactively drawing public attention to the statement published by
Antonio Guterres on the same day during the briefing. Stephane Dujarric was asked twice about why the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge failed to draw a similar response from the Secretariat, since it had also led to civilian casualties. The Secretary-General’s spokesperson
ducked a direct answer to the question, calling everything that had happened in recent days an “unacceptable escalation.” Here’s yet another instance of the double standards practiced by the UN Secretariat.
There’s nothing new about it. The West is
undermining the remnants of trust with its own hands, barbarically dismantling, in the process, European and international institutions that have served for decades as platforms for compromise and diplomacy.
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