‘A necessary war’: reporting on the Ukraine ‘disagreement’ outside the west
by Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro, Emmanuel Akinwotu, from World news | The Guardian on (#5WZVJ)
Venezuela says Putin is a victim, China blames the US, and a South African pundit calls out western hypocrisy
Many an insult has been hurled at Vladimir Putin since he invaded Ukraine a fortnight ago, causing chaos, heartbreak and death. A bloodstained aggressor. A 21st-century Stalin. A total fucking dickhead. Beelzebub.
Look at the face of Putin. You will see the devil," one US commentator opined on Wednesday as a maternity hospital was bombed in the city of Mariupol.
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