Avenue of flags near the UN building in Geneva. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 25The West failed to turn most of the world against Russia after the start of the military operation in Ukraine, columnist Howard French wrote in an article for Foreign Policy magazine. According to him, many states did not support sanctions against Moscow, including such large countries as India, China. «In fact, when calculating the population of these countries, it becomes clear that the states representing the majority of mankind did not take a position in this conflict, seeing in it the familiar echoes of the past rivalry between East and West,” French said. According to the observer, the international political system that took shape at the beginning of the twentieth century from the very beginning gave the countries of the “third world” the status of second-class states. As an example, he cited the colonization of Africa by European countries. «It was the work of the enslaved millions of people who grew sugar and cotton in huge quantities, cleared the land and performed all other unpaid work, made the American colonies profitable for Europe, and the so-called» Old World «new and the rich,” the author emphasized. French urged not to ignore the heightened sense of justice among the former colonized peoples. On February 24, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine. As stated by the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and have already significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main task in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
