Double standards

May 27, 2025

I love your work, Henry Reynolds, and I agree with your assessment of the depraved injustice Palestinians have been subjected to. I do however, disagree with the sentence “Moscow’s annexation of the Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine is an international outrage”, because as a historian, surely one must be aware of what led to this situation.

Hint, Henry, have you not heard of the US-initiated Maidan Coup, the subsequent discriminatory language and social service laws against Ukraine’s ethnic Russian community, the refusal of the Russian-speaking Ukrainians to be overnight treated as second-class citizens and the subsequent eight-year siege of the Donbas and Lugansk by Ukrainian US armed Azov troops?

Surely, Henry, you may also recall that the Russian-speaking Ukrainians begged Putin to intervene on their behalf for eight years, and, after two broken Minsk Accords, and a massive build-up of Ukrainian forces in February 2022 to kill even more citizens of those regions, Putin intervened, only to pull back two weeks later to arrange a peace agreement in Ankara, signed by both parties. But a la Minsk, Boris Johnson flew in and somehow convinced the “innocent” Zelenskyy to declare it Niet and void.