The genocide in Gaza - or more precisely the major NATO powers' active and
practical support for the genocide in Gaza - has forced me to re-evaluate my
views on Ukraine in a manner more sympathetic to the Russian narrative.
In particular, I was complacent in my dismissive attitude to the argument that
the Western powers would back ethnic cleansing and massacre in the Donbass, by
forces including some motivated by Nazi ideology. The same powers who are
funding and arming Ukraine are funding and arming a genocide by racial
supremacist Israeli forces in Gaza. It is beyond argument that my belief in some
kind of inherent decency in the Western political Establishment was naive.
I apologise.
This does not mean that I was wrong to call the Russian invasion of the
Ukrainian state illegal. I am afraid it was. You see, the law is the law. It has
only a tenuous connection to either morality or justice. A thing can be
justified and morally right, but still illegal.
-- Cont'd at https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/02/putin-history-and-the-mystery-of-national-identity/
I much prefer Scott Ritter's analysis for the use of Article 51 to justify the SMO. Good to see Craig admitting his mistake, albeit faintly.