As the Russian invasion in Ukraine enters its 50th day, Vijay Prashad, author and director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, speaks about the war’s impact around the world.
“When food prices go up, the political crisis is almost immediate,” says Prashad, who calls the US pressure on Global South countries to cut off essential imports from Russia after a 30-year globalization campaign a double standard. He says if the U.S. encourages greater global division in order to isolate Russia and China, they will implicitly plunge developing countries “into even greater catastrophe.” He also says the West — led by the Biden administration — is pursuing a “casual weaponization of human rights and the word genocide.”
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