Viewpoint by Dr Chandra Muzaffar
The writer is the president of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST) in Malaysia. This article was issued by CounterCurrents.
SELANGOR, Malaysia (IDN) — The mainstream Western media is almost unanimous in demanding that Russia and Vladimir Putin stop their military operation in Ukraine immediately. This in their opinion is the only solution to the current conflict. However, if one attempts to understand how the current conflict had evolved, one would ask not Russia but the US led Western alliance to bring down the political temperature as a first step.