Just when we thought western hypocrisy over the war in Ukraine had reached rock bottom, lo and behold, they get out an excavator and keep digging.

A series of precision strikes across the country over the last few days have devastated thermal and hydroelectric power plants, including the largest ones in Kiev and Kharkov.

Almost immediately, western leaders decried the attacks as “targeting civilian infrastructure” as well as labeling them “war crimes”, a cry that has been going on since much earlier in the special military operation. The US State Department demanded such attacks cease immediately.

“Overnight, Russia launched what some have termed one of the worst attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure since the start of Russia’s invasion. Russia must be held accountable for its actions,” U.S. Ambassador to UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said in a statement.

President Putin, on the other hand, has described the strikes as retaliation for Ukrainian drone and missile strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, and legitimate targets in the ongoing campaign to demilitarize and denazize the former Soviet republic. He also pointed out that Russia had deliberately not struck these targets during the winter to avoid harming civilians.

One really must protest at this blatant hypocrisy by the west in general, and the US in particular. I am reminded of the New Testament passage where Jesus warned his followers to remove the log from their own eye before commenting on the speck in that of their neighbors.

The US led war against Iraq, Operation Desert Storm, in 1991, began with a massive air campaign that targeted and destroyed Iraq’s 19 power stations, as well as the transmission system. This was entirely in line with US military doctrine, as shown........

© New Eastern Outlook