At the Munich Security Conference on February 14, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a wide-ranging speech focused on security guarantees, battlefield realities, Western responsibility, and what he described as the fundamental nature of Russia’s leadership.
functionally, the global north’s oligarchs all support eachother’s agendas. Ukraine is nominally part of the global south based on economic pressures. largely, the liberal position of western europe is to stay out of it to avoid retaliation. this is, of course, a fallacy. russia is an aggressor. no one can be made safe by ignoring their threat and waiting for it to go away. the same can be said for the so called united states, china, and india. but largely europe doesn’t want to intervene on the side of the colonized in a colonial war because europe benefits from colonialism more than it doesn’t