“Whatever it takes … to defeat Russia”, this is the battle cry repeated on every occasion since February 24 last year by US President Joe Biden and his followers in Europe and Canada.
Outside Europe, only Japan, Australia and New Zealand applaud US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken when he calls for more and deadlier arms to be delivered to the Zelensky government in Ukraine.
The defenders of a new “just war” (for the upholding of democracy and Western values), argue, in the words of US historian Timothy Snyder (Yale University) that “the cohesion and thereby the survival of the West depends on the Ukrainians winning” (Der Spiegel, no 8/23).
Journalists and academics are vilified, when
