{"id":2835,"date":"2022-07-14T23:53:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T21:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2022-11-01T11:33:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T09:33:30","slug":"west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=2835","title":{"rendered":"West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230; Two days later, the same group of countries stated they support Ukraine\u2019s proceedings before the International Court of Justice, seeking &#8216;to establish that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=2097\">Russia<\/a> has no lawful basis to take military action in Ukraine on the basis of unsubstantiated allegations of genocide&#8217;. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now it\u2019s interesting to look at which countries signed up for these initiatives. Of course, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=14\">US<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=1596\">UK<\/a>, Norway, Iceland, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and all the EU-27 members, including the EU as a collective entity. But what about the others?<\/p>\n<p>The other signatories are Albania, Andorra, the Marshall Islands, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Palau and San Marino. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We have already argued that even in the context of Vladimir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=2542\">Putin<\/a>\u2019s war in Ukraine, his world is not so small. In the UN, the home of 193 nations, he can still count on international support \u2013 or at least neutrality \u2013 from dozens of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=21\">countries<\/a>, including from some of the world\u2019s most populous ones, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=1588\">India<\/a>, Brazil, South Africa, or Mexico. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The EU remains attractive to most of the world for its living standards, but less so for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=58\">democratic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=1880\">human rights<\/a> values.<\/p>\n<p>The paradox is that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=177\">rich<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=955\">West<\/a> is attractive but not influential enough, both at the international and grassroots level. And at the same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=218\">time<\/a>, the rejection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=553\">Western values<\/a> is becoming an increasingly powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=1692\">ideology<\/a> shared by billions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>aus: Georgi Gotev: How big and powerful is the West?, Euraktiv, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/global-europe\/opinion\/the-brief-how-big-and-powerful-is-the-west\/\">im Internet<\/a> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"thumb\" style=\"max-width: calc((100vh - 184px) * 1.000);\" src=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/externer-link-icon.png\" alt=\"Externer link-symbol\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" data-pin-no-hover=\"true\" \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">07\/22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230; Two days later, the same group of countries stated they support Ukraine\u2019s proceedings before the International Court of Justice, seeking &#8216;to establish that Russia has no lawful basis to take military action in Ukraine on the basis of unsubstantiated allegations of genocide&#8217;. &#8230; Now it\u2019s interesting to look at which countries signed up for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3071,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions\/3071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}