Warmongering Europe, plunged into a deep crisis of intelligence and leadership, has finally come up with a peace plan that exposes the deep fractures of an asymmetrical international order.

To this end, our analysis draws on the article entitled ‘Ukrainian peace plan reveals Western double standards,’ written by journalist S. Adekoya and published in The Guardian Tanzania on 27 November 2025. This reference text forms the basis of this article, which develops a critical reading of the Ukrainian peace plan, highlighting the moral selectivity of the West, the hierarchization of human suffering, and the geopolitical use of humanitarian discourse in contemporary international governance. It analyses the Ukrainian peace plan as revealing Western double standards. It also shows that the initiative, presented as universal, is perceived in the Global South as a geopolitical instrument. Drawing on Patrick Lumumba, Mahmood Mamdani, Arikana Chihombori-Quao, Vijay Prashad, Richard Falk, and Felwine Sarr, the text demonstrates the prioritization of human suffering. It compares Ukraine to Iraq, Libya, Gaza, Yemen, and the Sahel, highlighting the absence of equivalent sanctions. The article concludes that the plan symbolises asymmetrical global governance, where Western moral authority is claimed but applied selectively in the contemporary international order, which is currently undergoing profound ideological restructuring.

The Ukrainian plan as a revelation of selective humanitarianism: the conditional indignation of the West

In much of the Global South, the Ukrainian peace plan is not interpreted as a gesture of universal diplomacy but as a mirror revealing decades of Western strategic inconsistencies. Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, a leading figure in African criticism of Western interventionism, expresses the essence of this accusation when he asks, ‘Where was this energy when millions died in Congo, Libya, and Iraq?’ His question resonates as a historical indictment, recalling the interventions in Iraq in 2003 and Libya in 2011, which were carried out without international pressure comparable to that exerted on Russia since 2022. It therefore echoes tragedies in which the West deployed neither massive sanctions nor international conferences, nor diplomatic mobilization.

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