A reptile at the UN

By: Luis Gonzales Posada - 23/07/2023

The most destructive missile launched by the autocrat Putin fell on the United Nations, demonstrating that it is an inoperative, bureaucratic body, incapable of stopping a war of enormous proportions provoked by Russia, a member of the Security Council.

By attacking Ukraine and bombing cities, especially residential buildings, hospitals, schools and transport stations, killing hundreds of human beings, mostly civilians, Putin violates the principles of human coexistence enshrined in the world body.

It does so with cynicism, absolute impunity and contempt for international law.

It has had no qualms about hiring mercenaries –Wagner Group– to kill hundreds of human beings, most of them civilians, many of them thrown into common graves with their hands framed and signs of torture.

Nor has it had any qualms about suspending the gas supply to Europe, depriving its inhabitants of heating in a winter several degrees below zero.

Moscow also announces that it will block the transport of grains and fertilizers through the Black Sea, affecting the UN World Food Program and with it the poorest peoples of Africa.

Faced with this barbaric act, the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, assured that “hundreds of millions of people will face hunger”; that is, to death.

Worse still, the dictator warns that he will launch nuclear bombs at Ukraine and its allies. Lest it be thought of as bravado, he has placed this deadly weapon in Belarus, ruled by another tyrant, Alexsandr Lukashenko, and one of his henchmen claims that each bomb they will drop is 3,800 times more powerful than the one used on Hiroshima.

These psychopathic atrocities are reminiscent of the musings of the late former US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, who described Putin as “small and pale, so cold he is almost a reptile”.

Later, he noted in the American newspaper New York Times: “Instead of paving Russia's path to greatness, invading Ukraine will ensure Putin's infamy by leaving his country dramatically isolated, economically paralyzed, strategically vulnerable to a stronger and more united Western alliance. The sanctions will devastate not only your country's economy, but also your close circle of corrupt cronies. What is sure to be a bloody and catastrophic war will deplete Russian resources and cost Russian lives, while creating an urgent incentive for Europe to reduce its dangerous dependence on Russian energy."

With the annexation war, the Putin surname is registered in the genocidal poster, next to Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, at the same time that the Zelensky surname is part of the gallery of fighters for freedom and democracy, which has also managed to unite Europe under the banners of humanitarianism and strengthen NATO.

One final note: while Western governments respond vigorously to barbarism, in Latin America there is a fearful silence, with some exceptions, such as Chilean President Gabriel Boric, who harshly condemned the Russian invasion at the EU-Celac Summit, while the other delegations - including Peru - took refuge in silence.

On the other hand, Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela were more transparent when offering their territories for the training of the Soviet Armed Forces, in an infamous and painful demonstration of vassalage due to political coincidences and/or economic gains.

In this context, it would be an act of complicity to buy weapons or spare parts from Moscow, because it would violate international sanctions. Therefore, the Government would do well to clarify the version that a private Colombian company (Helistar) is repairing Russian planes and helicopters with materials from that source.

With a greater geopolitical vision, now is a magnificent opportunity, a historic time, for our country to change the acquisition matrix from Russia to the West.

To do so would be a sign of repudiation of a genocidal regime and of commitment to democratic systems united against a war of territorial annexation that blows up international and humanitarian law.

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