Anti-Russia Alliance Is Missing a Big Bloc: The Developing World

[former9thward]

Nations are resisting economic sanctions and voicing criticism over the Ukraine invasion, fearful of political and economic repercussions from Moscow or Beijing

Western leaders seeking to build a global coalition to isolate Russia over its war on Ukraine are facing pushback from the world’s largest developing nations, including the democracies of India, Brazil and South Africa.

The resistance, much of it from economic self-interest, limits the pressure on President Vladimir Putin and spotlights factions in the global community that recall the Cold War, when many countries tried to steer clear of the rivalry between the U.S. and Soviet Union.

Yet even after the massacre of civilians in Bucha, Ukraine, 24 countries of the 141 United Nations member states voted last week against removing Russia from the United Nations Human Rights Council; 58 member states abstained, including India, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia and South Africa.

While U.S. and European leaders have accused Mr. Putin of war crimes in Ukraine, leaders in the developing world, from Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador to India’s Narendra Modi, have refused to criticize the Russian leader.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/anti-russia-alliance-is-missing-a-big-bloc-the-developing-world-11649950913?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1

[David__77]

1. What's new? "The world" has long excluded the majority.

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[former9thward]

2. No question.

That is why China is making such inroads in Asia and Africa and even South America. They are pouring billions of dollars in infrastructure projects in countries on those continents.

[Irish_Dem]

4. I was going to post the same. China has South America and Africa in its pocket.

[tirebiter]

3. Make South Africa a first priority military ally

The Cape of Storms currently has nobody’s navy with a port there to keep an eye on who is sailing by. Nobody took over Port Elizabeth when the Brits left iirc. There’s still a usable port just sitting there. We could negotiate a deal they can live with the usual promises of extended lease fees and favored trade agreements, etc. Security agreements that exclude Russia would need be included. This should happen regardless.

[stopdiggin]

5. the poorer countries of the world

(and those trying desperately to rise above being poor) see themselves as having harder, and realistically less, choices available to them. (and chances are their quite right in that assessment)

And - two years ago (with a different figure in the White House), the global response and reaction to the Ukrainian incursion would have been a completely different calculus.
(and chances are good it would have been all over by now)

[malaise]

6. We know our history

and the West cannot be trusted. We are not your colonies. As one Indian journalists put it - our interests come first - just like the West's

This time the West's breathtaking double standards are visible..

[malaise]

7. Another perspective

[rockfordfile]

8. Brazil and India? Not really a democracy. Both have f up governments.

Brazil basically has a fascist dictator.