Can We Blame The West And Still Condemn Putin?
There are a lot of grey areas in the arguments over the Ukrainian crisis that need pointing out. I think more than any other in recent memory, this is a crisis that seems to have forced most commentators to compromise some of their stands as part of efforts towards finding a middle ground because at the heart are two major issues. One is the inalienable right of a sovereign state to first exist, and second make choices it deems right for its citizenry. Then there is the other issue which has to do with the debate over how “one man’s right to swing his arms should stop where another’s right to defend his nose begins”. There seems to be an agreement among some opinion leaders that the West, especially the United States of America should have a lion’s share of the blame for this crisis. But while they are unanimous in insisting that America should share in the blame, they waste no time in condemning, in its entirety, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The consensus is that had Americ