Normalising genocide as war - Vanessa Beeley with Tarik Cyril Amar AUDIO

Tarik Cyril Amar is a historian, geopolitical analyst and author of The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis and Nationalists. From his recent article for RT - Britain goes full Orwell accusing Putin of imperialism: Politically, this is just another way in which semi-smart people fool semi-simple people. But there is a more serious, moral dimension as well. It is a truly and abjectly colonial and imperialist move to exploit the massive suffering – almost exclusively at the hands of the West – as well as the hard-won insights and hard-fought resistance of what we now call the Global South so as to feed them into the cheap propaganda that the West now uses to sell its geopolitics-101 proxy war in Ukraine as an issue of ‘rules’ and ‘values’. And yet that is precisely what David Lammy has done. What a disgrace. Tarik Cyril Amar on Amazon describes himself thus: I am a historian of the twentieth century, writing about World War Two, the postwar period,