Lacking principled opposition to illegal territorial expansion emboldens Putin’s war on Ukraine.
As we continue to look at the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we’re joined by professor Stephen Zunes of the University of San Francisco. He recently published anheadlined “The U.S. Hypocrisy on Ukraine.” Zunes condemns the Russian invasion but criticizes what he sees as President Biden’s hypocrisy.
In a few minutes, we’re going to turn to an interview I did with a leading Sahrawi human rights defender on Friday who’s been underWestern Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict IrresolutionAs we see the Russian invasion of Ukraine play out, Stephen Zunes, talk about why you’re talking about Western Sahara.Well, Trump recognized, formally recognized, Morocco’s illegal annexation of Western Sahara during his final weeks of his presidency.
The United States is virtually the only country in the world, the only country, to formally recognize Morocco’s illegal annexation. If you look at maps from the United Nations, from Google, from Rand McNally,, whatever, they’re depicted as two separate countries. U.S. government maps, by contrast, show Western Sahara as part of Morocco, no demarcation between them.
And what’s interesting — and this development just happened last week — we had thought we had scored a great victory when Congress blocked U.S.
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