It is long past time that we fully internalise that we are not part of the West and our perspective should reflect this
28 March 2022 - 17:56Most South Africans, like most Americans, believe that they are exceptional. This is the view that leads South Africans to talk about the rest of the African continent as “Africa”, as if SA is not in Africa, and to assume our country is “not like” the other countries in Africa.
The people who refuse to recognise Western hypocrisy did not question SA’s ill-advised 2011 support for the no-fly zone over Libya. This opened the door for the total ruin of Libya, the breakout of civil war, a humanitarian crisis, and the internal and external displacement of hundreds of thousands of Libyans. More than 10 years after the no-fly zone over Libya, the country is in a worse situation than before and the people now left to fend for themselves are less secure.
A lot of discussion around what is happening in Eastern Europe has failed to take this into consideration and to be cognisant of how states, and in particular big powers, act in international relations. Most have questioned what makes Russia think it can invade Ukraine or that it can stop Ukrainians from joining the EU or Nato if that is what it wants.
Moscow’s security concerns have been dismissed as rubbish and Putin said to be untrustworthy. Yet, we are supposed to believe US President Joe Biden’s utterance that Putin “cannot remain in power” to not mean regime change. Decades of US foreign policy suggest that that is exactly what Biden was calling for.
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