Non-alignment lets India down again

India’s refusal to condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is politically dangerous. The origins of such an attitude lie in a—if not the—most serious disease our country suffers from: hatred for and irrational fear of the West. Just because our political leaders don’t want to be seen as, in Left phraseology, “the lackeys of America”, they have decided to place the non-alignment dogma over national interest.
So, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, T.S. Tirumurti, said at the UNSC meeting, “The escalation of tension along the border of Ukraine with the Russian Federation is a matter of deep concern. These developments have the potential to undermine peace and security of the region.”
This is no “escalation of tension,” Mr Tirumurti; this is a brazen attack on a sovereign nation by a big bully, which has historically terrorised its neighbours. On few moral and rational grounds Putin’s belligerence can be justified. He accuses Ukraine of genocide, but provides no evidence of mass murders. He says that he wants to shield people from bullying; he claims that he stands for the “demilitarization and de-Nazification” of Ukraine.
But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish. “How could I be a Nazi?” he asked incredulously.

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