Julian Assange
WESTERN politicians and media pundits have been quick to express their outrage about the forced diversion of a passenger plane and the arrest of some of those on board by the Belarus authorities.
It brings to mind one of the few perceptive observations by the 19th-century imperialist politician and falsifier of history, Lord Macauley: “We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”
In this case, for “the British public” we should read “the ruling classes of Britain, the US and western Europe” and throw in Nato and the European Union as well. They hope the public of what they like to call the “free world” will obediently follow.
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