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Mar 11 20 tweets 9 min read
"The map of global participation in the sanctions against #Russia suggests a new non-aligned movement might be on the rise." theguardian.com/commentisfree/… #Ukraine
"very few nations have chosen to take part in the economic warfare set against (#Russia). On the contrary, many of the world’s largest nations – including China, India, Brazil, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, and even Nato ally Turkey – have refused to join in." #Ukraine
“We will not blindly follow the steps taken by another country,” said Indonesia’s foreign ministry representative at a recent press conference. #Russia #Ukraine #Sanctions
“We do not consider that [this war] 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.” #Mexico #Russia #Sanctions
#Argentina does not consider that they (sanctions against #Russia) are a mechanism to generate peace and harmony, or generate a frank dialogue table that serves to save lives.”
“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 #IvoryCoast 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.”
"the map of sanctions suggests that the true rift is not between left and right...the map reveals a rift between north and south...And by revealing this tectonic shift, the map can tell us something important about geopolitics in the coming age of multipolarity"#Russia #Sanctions
"In the age of unipolarity...the nations of the world were given a simple choice: side with the US or stand alone. Some nations sought to band together in collective acts of resistance to this... But the consequences were... invasions, coups and extensive sanctions"
"the options available to US neighbor nations are no longer restricted to compliance and resistance. A third option emerges: neutrality."
Neutrality was not an option offered by the US hegemonic power. Remember Bush's 'you are with us or against us'?
“Neutrality does not mean indifference,” says Pierre Sané. “Neutrality means continuously calling for the respect of international laws; neutrality means that our hearts still go to the victims of military invasions and arbitrary sanctions never imposed on #Nato countries."
"Back in the first cold war, neutrality had a name: non-alignment. As the United States clashed with China and the Soviet Union in the skies above Korea, Jawaharlal Nehru and Josip Broz Tito refused to take a side."
“The people of Yugoslavia cannot accept the postulate that humanity today has only one choice – a choice between a domination of one or the other bloc,” Yugoslavia’s minister of foreign affairs, Edvard Kardelj, told the UN in 1950.
“We believe that there exists another road.” The Non-Aligned Movement was born five years later, uniting more than 100 nations around the world around principles of non-interference and peaceful coexistence.
"as the map of sanctions attests, the cross-pressure between these great powers may once again spark a movement for non-alignment, demanding a more universal application of international law against demands for unilateral exception."
"as great powers prepare for a new century of war, the call for non-alignment will only grow louder. Our task is to understand that call now...(as) active & constructive policy that, as its goal, has collective peace as the foundation of collective security”#Russia #NATO #Ukraine
"There will no doubt be consequences for this neutral position. Non-aligned nations in the first cold war were frequently victim to aggression, invasion and economic embargo."
"#Lithuania recently canceled a shipment of Covid vaccines to Bangladesh for its refusal to condemn #Russia at the UN. The #US...has already passed the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act...to punish countries with sanctions for trading with the other side"
#Russia is ushering in the new multi-polar world. This is how History books will see this war. #Ukraine

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