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While New Zealand has been pouring petrol on Russia’s war with Ukraine, Africa is doing its best to bring peace to the conflict with a delegation of African leaders visiting Kyiv and Moscow to try and find a way forward.
New Zealand was right to strongly criticise Russia for its invasion and occupation of parts of Eastern Ukraine but we were wrong to pay for more weapons to fuel the conflict. In doing so we have taken the US side in the conflict rather than calling out US meddling as well as Russian aggression. Anyone who has been paying attention knows it is US interference in Ukraine, including the overthrow of the pro-Russian, democratically-elected Ukrainian government in 2014 which provided reasons for the Russian invasion.
Then when Russian President Vladimir Putin sought security guarantees from the US in an on-line call with US President Joe Biden, the US, believing they had Russia cornered and on the back foot, refused.
US objectives are not New Zealand’s objectives and providing arms to the conflict is cowardly and morally unprincipled.
The African delegation will have limited success in the short term because for peace talks to succeed both sides have to want it and that’s not the case yet. However, the African delegation deserves respect and the praise of humanity for their efforts.
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