Amnesty International

Please take the time to read Oksana Pokalchuk’s editorial on why she resigned as executive director of amnesty international in Ukraine.

For those of us who have been following Ukraine and Russia for years, it was obvious that Amnesty International’s report would be used to justify even more indiscriminate attacks on civilians by Russia. Watching the war unfold since 2014, atrocities against civilians is how Russia operates. Little has changed since Grozny or Aleppo.

I suspect that much of the upper management of AI, and similar organizations, are chomskian imperialists. It’s an odd worldview, in which the United States is the source of all evil and thus anti-American regimes such as Russia, Iran and China are saviors and “anti-imperialists”. These types simply can’t fathom that Ukrainians want to live in an independent country with their own language, culture and sovereignty.

This war has darkened my view of international organizations. The Red Cross has chummy relations with the Kremlin and is arguably abetting the ethnic cleansing of Ukrainians from the Donbas. Other international organizations whisked their expat staff out of Kyiv without offering the least bit of support to the local Ukrainian staff.