West is losing Respect of Global South

RT reports:

Standing up for Ukraine but not Palestine makes the US and its allies look duplicitous, officials have told the outlet

West has ‘lost’ Global South over Israel hypocrisy – FT

Attempts by the US and its allies to “paint Moscow as a global pariah” have been “poisoned” by their rush to support Israeli retaliation against Hamas in Gaza, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing more than a dozen officials.

Western nations have long framed the Ukraine conflict as an act of “unprovoked aggression” and blasted Moscow for the suffering of civilians.

However, the same nations have appeared reluctant to condition their support for Israel on exercising restraint in the wake of the deadly incursion by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, earlier this month. Israel has cut off essential supplies to the enclave and subjected it to intense bombardment.

“We have definitely lost the battle in the Global South,” one senior G7 diplomat was quoted as saying. “All the work we have done with the Global South [over Ukraine] has been lost… Forget about rules, forget about world order. They won’t ever listen to us again.”

“What we said about Ukraine has to apply to Gaza. Otherwise we lose all our credibility,” the official added. “The Brazilians, the South Africans, the Indonesians: why should they ever believe what we say about human rights?”

Meanwhile, an Arab official noted an apparent lack of consistency: “if you describe cutting off water, food and electricity in Ukraine as a war crime, then you should say the same thing about Gaza."

This could be Russian propaganda, but the point remains. Why are we taking the Ukraine side of one war, and the Israel side of the other? It is hard to explain.

I guess "Global South" is the new phrase for the Third World.

Meanwhile Pres. Biden is promising a New World Order:

So, I think we have an opportunity to do things, if we’re bold enough and have enough confidence in ourselves, to unite the world in ways that it never has been. We were in a post-war period for 50 years where it worked pretty damn well, but that’s sort of run out of steam. Sort of run out of steam. It needs a new — a new world order in a sense, like that was a world order. So, as down as you all may be, I just think that — I think we have a real opportunity to unite the world in a way it hasn’t been in a long time. And en- — enhance the prospect of peace, not diminish the prospect of peace.