Russia-Ukraine crisis : A detailed insight view of current affairs: ENSEMBLE CSS ACADEMY

Russia-Ukraine crisis: A detailed insight view of current affairs: ENSEMBLE CSS ACADEMY

The response in Western-centric countries to the Russia-Ukraine crisis displays duplicity, racism, and supremacy. The conflict is also presented as unusual.

From the start of the crisis, journalists from the US to Europe face pains to point out that the violence on European soil is unexpected. It is common to hear questions about why violence occurs in a civilized European city. The sentiments of journalists echo the mood of politicians and the public in the West. The emotional shock is because of centuries of indoctrination by Eurocentric ideologies such as the belief that violence is the preserve of non-Europeans.

Hence, the violence of blue-eyed on blue-eyed and blonde on blonde in Ukraine-Russia shatters the myth of Europeans as peaceful, progressive, and modern. The Eurocentric construction of non-Europeans as unreasonable and dangerous justifies the mantra of 'war for peace' From colonialism to the 'war on terror, violence takes centre stage, the first instrument in resolving a dispute with non-Europeans.

Violence on the 'Other' in the periphery is understandable and necessary. However, this rationale comes up with some consequences. 

There is a wealth of evidence suggesting atrocities on the colonized and their impacts on the European metropole. This is not a claim to a direct correlation between the structures, attitudes, and practices of European colonialists being represented in the metropole. There are complexities; nevertheless, one cannot deflect from Western modernity as a social thought and political structure as a product of colonialism. If the 'Rest' becomes an open hunting ground for the West, those practices will eventually rear their ugly heads in its midst.

History witnessed some savage examples. The European-initiated wars of 1914-18, 1939-45, and the Holocaust. The resort to violence is part of a colonial past and triggers the war on terror. The past two decades of the war on terror have led this new generation to violence to resolve conflict. The war on terror era also assembles the military complex, security industry, snooping technologies, think tanks and political institutes geared to legitimize violence.

However, each time in Europe, renditioning is accepted. 

Three violations are particularly pertinent: law, human rights, and construction of the enemy.

Ignoring international law, bypassing the UN, and democratic mandate in the war on terror are coming home to roost. When the thin line of law is transgressed routinely, the ugly practice becomes a means, like in the Ukraine-Russia crisis.

The war on terror also remains infamous for differentiating between 'good' and 'bad' Muslims. The binarism of the Muslim figure is practised in the heart of Europe to mark out refugees. The UK has given France £54 million in an attempt to stop refugees from nonEuropean countries. At the same time, it is spending nearly £2m on welcoming Ukrainian refugees and paying £350 a month to any British host housing a Ukrainian. Britain has also temporarily blocked other overseas aid payments because of prioritizing Ukraine.

While the racist nature of humanitarian aid and refugee policies and the biased nature of international communities is unquestionable.

Binarism is also visible in the marking and treating of political activists within Eurocentric metropoles. Many groups/communities expose state violence, Islamophobia, social injustices, unequal pay, environmental degradation, and Israeli colonial practices. These groups and individuals are subjected to political violence by stripping them of their citizenship, freezing their assets, rendition, deporting, imprisoning, and even denying them the right to protest.

On one level, Eurocentric pundits are in severe shock by the violence amongst Europeans. On another level, they never thought that their dirty practices in the periphery of colonization, occupation, starving, looting, raping, and killing would become their way of solving problems. They were living in wool-gathering. Now they cannot find a way to wash out their hands.

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