
newsJul 18, 202423:59pending
EU admits it has hypocritical 'double standards' on Israel, Ukraine, Iraq, climate change
About this episode
European Union foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell admitted the West has hypocritical "double standards" on international law, the Russia-Ukraine-NATO war, Israel's brutal bombing of Gaza, the US-led invasion of Iraq, and climate change. Ben Norton analyzes the revealing comments of the top EU diplomat.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQuUbBf6snA
Sources and links here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/07/18/eu-borrell-hypocrisy-double-standards-israel-ukraine-iraq/
EU confesses ‘our prosperity was based on China & Russia’: cheap energy, low-paid labor, big market: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/10/18/eu-prosperity-china-russia-energy-market/
‘Western dominance has ended’, EU foreign-policy chief admits, warning of ‘West against the Rest’ geopolitics: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/02/26/western-dominance-ended-eu-josep-borrell/
Topics
0:00 Intro
1:56 (Clip) EU foreign policy chief on West's "double standards"
4:25 (Clip) West values lives of Ukrainians more than Palestinians
5:06 (Clip) Hypocrisy on Israel's violations of UN resolutions
6:19 Historical carbon emissions by region
7:17 (Clip) Western hypocrisy on climate change
8:46 Who is Josep Borrell?
10:02 (Clip) West is prolonging Ukraine war
10:42 "Western dominance has ended"
11:55 (Clip) USA has lost its hegemony
12:11 China's economic rise
12:54 (Clip) China challenges Western dominance
14:21 Multipolarity
15:01 (Clip) "The world is much more multipolar"
15:54 "Democracy vs autocracy"?
16:33 (Clip) "On our side, there are a lot of authoritarian regimes"
17:00 How West relied on China & Russia
17:40 (Clip) "Our prosperity was based on China & Russia"
19:15 Borrell's racist "garden vs jungle" rant
21:30 (Clip) European exceptionalism
22:11 Outro
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