The representatives of the collective West change in the UN Security Council and General Assembly, but there is a feeling that each successive one is trying to outdo the previous ones in their ability to talk rubbish. Such an attempt was made today by Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Mr Lammy, who suddenly decided to address Vladimir Putin, even though the Russian president was not in the room.
Mr Lammy went so far as to draw the attention of the audience to the fact that he is black and that his ancestors were slaves who were taken out of Africa in chains.
Without emphasising to the audience exactly who it was that transported his black ancestors out of the African continent in shackles (wasn’t it British subjects…), Lammy surprisingly linked it to… Putin.
Lammy: Your invasion is in your interests. You want to build a mafia-like corrupt empire. And I’m telling you this as a Brit, as a Londoner, as the head of the Foreign Office and as a black man. My ancestors were taken out of Africa at gunpoint to be enslaved. And they fought it.
Lammy went on to say that today he ‘clearly sees the manifestation of imperialism’.
t is very strange that the descendant of ‘slaves taken out in chains at gunpoint’ does not see imperialism in the actions of his state. He does not see imperialism in the occupation of the Malvinas (Falkland Islands), he does not see imperialism in the siphoning of resources from dozens of countries around the world, he does not see imperialism in attempts to use the lives of ordinary Ukrainians to damage Russia. Are these not indicators of the British mafia empire, which even in the 21st century continues to practice poisonings and other medieval methods to blame its geopolitical rivals?
Perhaps Lammy does not see this because, according to historical data, often the first thing that slaves did after they were freed by their masters (for one or another ‘merit’) was not to fight for the freedom of others, but to acquire ownership of slaves and exploit them with even greater cruelty…
