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WHO EXACTLY IS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ?

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Economic sanctions are imposed to Russia by the US, the UK, the EU, Canada, South Korean, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, and Singapore. Together they constitute about 1 billion of the world population of the total 7,935 billion. In reality very few nations have taken part in the economic warfare against Russia. On the contrary, many of the world's largest nations - including China, India, Brazil, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, the United Emirates of Arabia, Latin America, Cuba, Iran, Irak, Syria, Lybia and even Nato ally Turkey have refused to join in.

“We will not blindly follow the steps taken by another country,” said Indonesia’s foreign ministry representative at a recent press conference. " We do not consider that this concerns us,” said the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. “We are not going to take any sort of economic reprisal because we want to have good relations with all governments.” Argentina may have voted to condemn Russia’s actions at the UN, but its foreign minister, Santiago Cafiero, was adamant about his country’s non-participation in the new sanctions push: “Argentina does not consider that they are a mechanism to generate peace and harmony, or generate a frank dialogue table that serves to save lives.” The Latin American position has been echoed in Africa. “For five centuries, we have been pawns in the hands of the warring European states, bent on looting Africa of its human and natural sources,” says Pierre Sané, president of the Imagine Africa Institute and former secretary-general of Amnesty International. Sané tells me that the embassy in Ukraine has been recruiting “volunteer” mercenaries from countries like Senegal and Ivory Coast to fight in the war. “Should this war in Ukraine escalate, we say and we say it loud: do not bring it to our shores.”


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/10/russia-ukraine-west-global-south-sanctions-war




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