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Enabling Totalitarianism

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19

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Opinion: Why is the UN Secretary-General playing nice with Putin?

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Alexander J. Motyl

Date:

November 1, 2024

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The Hill

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But it is his moral obligation not to make nice with bloody dictators. Alas, that’s exactly what Guterres did in attending a BRICS meeting in the Russian city of Kazan last week and bowing before Putin. Instead of speaking truth to power, Guterres smiled and shook the hand of an accused war criminal, the instigator of Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War II. In effect if not in intent, the Secretary-General gave Putin and his crimes the U.N.’s imprimatur... Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs was also on target in saying that Guterres’s visit to Kazan “does not advance the cause of peace. It only damages the U.N.’s reputation.”

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