I WOULD like to go around all non-White countries in the entire world and ask every citizen how they view international affairs within the context of what is taking place in Haiti, Gaza, and the Ukraine. Is it possible that there is a non-White human on Planet Earth that would be unable to see how leaders in the world chose race and geographical proximity to determine the value of life?

Within a one-year period, Israel has virtually destroyed a Palestinian territory named Gaza. It bombed the place to smithereens, killing over 52,000 humans, the majority of whom were babies, children, women and civilians.
Within one year, Israel killed more journalists, nurses, and doctors in Gaza than any war in human history. Within a one-year period, Israel has destroyed more hospitals than any war in human history.
While the genocide in Gaza was taking place, a conflict in Europe was going on, and is still taking place. It is a battle between Ukraine and Russia. The Europeans have thrown hundreds of billions of dollars into Ukraine during the war, and continue to support the Ukrainians without any ceasefire

negotiation. None of the great European nations with hundreds of years of diplomacy has offered any formula for a ceasefire, or a solution to the conflict.
In another continent, a country named Haiti has become a failed State, and one in which life itself is not guaranteed to anyone. Europe that has thrown hundreds of billions into Ukraine has not offered one cent to the restoration of the physiology and biology of Haiti. An infinitesimal fraction of those hundreds of billions poured into Ukraine could see social normality again in Haiti.

The question is why not even a billion Euros have gone in Haiti from Europe? Two reasons are so large that even an unborn child can see them. Haiti is in a continent that doesn’t concern Europe. Haitian people are Africans; Ukrainians are White. In Canada, Ukrainian refugees are housed in fancy hotels; Haitian and Palestinian refugees are imprisoned in makeshift holdings.
The State of Israel is close to Europe culturally, racially, and religiously. On the anniversary of Israel’s bombing of Gaza, European leaders met in solidarity with the perpetrators of genocide rather than in sympathy with the victims of genocide. Europe observed a day of mourning for the Israelis rather than the Palestinians.

In the midst of this racist characteristic of international politics, in stepped a maverick American president, Donald Trump. He has taken a different approach to the Ukrainian war and Russia than his predecessor, Joe Biden. President Biden was so frenetic in his support for Israel. that it is possible that he may have come close to committing war crimes. A prestigious American organisation, DAWN, is asking the international Criminal Court (ICC) to research the question of Biden committing war crimes in Gaza.
Mr. Biden was equally over-emotional in his attitude towards Ukraine. Manipulated by some European leaders, Mr. Biden behaved as if Ukraine was in the Americas with geopolitical and geo-strategic value to the US. In fact, Haiti is of more security concern to the US than Ukraine, a country that even one per cent of the American people do not know who or what it was or where it was located before the war with Russia.

I got a rude awakening when I went to Canada to study in 1979. None of the American people I spoke with and who I knew well knew where Canada was. I swear on my parents’ grave that is true. Even if Americans know about Canada, they have a very dismissive and condescending attitude towards it.

If the American people do not know where Canada is, why would they care about an unknown place named Ukraine? But Mr. Biden poured hundreds of billions into Ukraine. as if it was a country a few miles away from New York.
So. the new American President, Mr. Trump woke up one morning and asked himself why the US is financing a war in another country named Ukraine that is of no geo-political and geostrategic interest to the US?

Mr. Trump asked another question: Why if the US is spending so much money on this war does it not arrange a solution? Mr. Trump asked himself a third question: Is Europe trying to drag the US into a war that doesn’t concern it? Mr. Trump asked himself a fourth question: Europe seems to have a deep-seated problem with Russia; why should it be the US’ business?

And so we may be nearing an end to the Ukrainian war, but the racism that the Europeans injected into taking the side of Ukraine and Israel should open up the eyes of all non-White humans on Planet Earth.
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