Breaking down the 'world' reaction to Putin's war

The colours of Ukraine. Photo by Marjan Blan @marjanblan on Unsplash

No matter what the western media reports, claiming it as “the world’s” reaction to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, different capitals have responded very differently. (The Financial Times and The Washington Post are two of the very few exceptions to the western media’s herd mentality. Both are doing a sterling job of keeping an eye on the rest of the world.)

It’s important to individually examine the reaction of the rest of the world — perhaps that’s the way to describe the parts left out by the western media? Anyway, I mean the world beyond Washington, D.C., London, Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Athens, Wellington, Canberra and Tokyo.

As I said before, the rest of the world’s response to the Russian invasion has been very nuanced. Consider this:

** The three giants of the global south — India, Brazil and South Africa — have not explicitly denounced Russia. In fact, India initially used its “  explanation of vote “ in t…