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Western reactions to the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts
Both February 24, 2022, and October 7, 2023, are dates that have drastically marked the lives of many people.
The first of these corresponds to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, while the second refers to the Hamas attack against Israel that started the current war in Gaza (Israel's response, in my opinion, was more than exaggerated, thanks to which, today, this war concerns several countries).
Now, what do both conflicts have in common? How are they different? And what has been the response of the West to them?
To begin with, both wars have a historical context that goes back many years before those terrible dates of 2022 and 2023.
On the one hand, in the case of Ukraine, we have the annexation of Crimea to Russia in 2014, which gave rise to the conflict in Donetsk and Lugansk, something that grew until it became the war we know today.
On the other hand, in the case of Gaza, we have to go back to 1947, when the UN approved the partition of Palestine into two states, Jewish and Arab, after which conflicts between the two states broke out on multiple occasions until they ended in the way they did in 2023.
Then, we must take into account the reasons for these invasions. There has been much speculation about why Russia attacked Ukraine in such a way, but the most obvious and logical reasons are: imperial longing (related to the division between the West and Russia—or the...
The first of these corresponds to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, while the second refers to the Hamas attack against Israel that started the current war in Gaza (Israel's response, in my opinion, was more than exaggerated, thanks to which, today, this war concerns several countries).
Now, what do both conflicts have in common? How are they different? And what has been the response of the West to them?
To begin with, both wars have a historical context that goes back many years before those terrible dates of 2022 and 2023.
On the one hand, in the case of Ukraine, we have the annexation of Crimea to Russia in 2014, which gave rise to the conflict in Donetsk and Lugansk, something that grew until it became the war we know today.
On the other hand, in the case of Gaza, we have to go back to 1947, when the UN approved the partition of Palestine into two states, Jewish and Arab, after which conflicts between the two states broke out on multiple occasions until they ended in the way they did in 2023.
Then, we must take into account the reasons for these invasions. There has been much speculation about why Russia attacked Ukraine in such a way, but the most obvious and logical reasons are: imperial longing (related to the division between the West and Russia—or the...
