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Author : Armen Oganesyan
Editor-in-Chief of International Affairs
PEOPLE WONDER, "How come that the
United States, a great democratic state and its no
less democratic allies in Europe turn a blind eye
to massive crimes against civilians in Donbass?"
This is not accidental and this attitude has a pre-
history of its own.
In the wake of World War II, the United States
challenged the obsolete system of colonial dom-
ination of Europeans in Africa, Asia and the
Middle East to make the dollar the world's only
ruler. The British Empire was the first to collapse followed by weaker "empires," protectorates,
trust territories, and colonies.
Certain important ideological aspects of decolonization made the United States and the Soviet
Union allies of sorts who eloquently described the numerous victims and untold suffering the
colonialists and their henchmen had caused the peoples of colonies.
It looked as if the world had entered a new era of peaceful economic expansion and universal
competition; the Soviet Union which proclaimed the principles of peaceful coexistence and eco-
nomic competition of the two systems looked like a natural element of the new world order.
According to the latest figures cited by the Pentagon, "U.S.-led airstrikes against ISIS have killed
only two civilians: both children - 'likely in Syria'" while a new report compiled by the non-profit
group Airwars, which tracks coalition airstrikes in the Middle East, "documents up to 591 civilian
deaths from more than 50 credible incidents - involving 5,600 airstrikes."
No wonder, the Western countries vetoed in the UN SC the draft resolution of the Russian Fed-
eration on the necessity for an independent investigation of the methods and nature of similar
operations in Libya.
Susan Southard has opened a hitherto little known page about the Nagasaki tragedy: "Among
the least-known victims of Nagasaki were 10,000 Koreans, who took 11 years to win the right
to the same healthcare benefits as Japanese survivors."
C.J. Werleman invited his readers: "Go ahead. Conduct your own poll the next time you're chat-
ting with Americans. Ask how many civilians were killed in Vietnam, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Iraq,
Syria, Panama, Cuba, Nicaragua, Korea, etc. I bet they either don't know or care."
No wonder, this has made American politicians and a large part of the American population in-
different to the civilian victims in the far-away Donbass. Indeed, the democratic values "common
to all mankind" should be defended harmoniously and without bloodshed; in the ideal world,
they exclude bloodshed and suffering.
Killed and Uncounted