Brussels Cracks Down on Russian Oil, Not Palestinian Mass Graves
The Financial Times highlights Brussels' sanctions on oil trader Murtaza Lakhani for 'allegedly' helping Russia generate 'a substantial source of revenue.' (As if Moscow needs help after years of Western nations pouring billions into its coffers for its resources). This decisive action comes after much hand-wringing over Ukraine, yet the EU's urgency vanishes when the victims are Palestinian.
Where is this same ferocity for holding accountable those providing 'substantial sources of revenue' to the Israeli war machine, enabling what the UN has called potential war crimes? (That would be us, by the way). Weapons manufacturers are seeing record profits while Western governments pretend moral superiority. Imagine if Brussels sanctioned every official complicit in the current Gaza
catastrophe with the same zeal they chase down an oil trader. The hypocrisy isn't just glaring; it's practically a founding principle for modern Western foreign policy. One might wonder if the 'rules-based order' only applies when the rules aren't being broken by your allies.