Piers Morgan condemns Russia, excuses West

Piers Morgan accepts Russia’s war crimes — shame he won’t do the same with America’s

In a conversation with Jeffrey Sachs, Piers Morgan got a brutally honest response on the consequences Russia will face for invading Ukraine:

Piers Morgan: “What happens to a country like Russia, which committed war crimes, emerges unpunished for any of this?”

Jeffrey Sachs: “Well, if the US were punished for all its war crimes, the world would be a better place… if Israel was punished for its genocide… pic.twitter.com/UlOdhPRW9r

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Morgan wasn’t wrong to speak out against Russia’s actions. However, his criticism masks the double standards of the Western establishment, which conveniently glosses over its own imperial misadventures.

The grim truth

Morgan was speaking to the American economist and analyst Sachs when he asked:

What happens to a country like Russia, which by common consent has committed myriad war crimes in the last three years?

It’s targeted and killed civilians. I think that’s inarguable. It’s kidnapped a reported 20,000 Ukrainian children. There was the massacre at places like Bucha. I’ve been there. Absolutely horrific what went on down there. There have been the sexual assaults and rapes of Ukrainian women and so on. So it seems inarguable. There’s been a number of war crimes committed.

Is it fair and just that at the end of this, assuming you’re right and this is the beginning of the end of this, that Russia emerges unpunished for any of this?

It’s not an unfair question.

The people who order and commit these inhumanities should be held accountable, but this seldom happens, as Sachs explained:

Well, if the United States were punished for all its war crimes, the world would be a better place. And if all countries were punished for their war crimes; if Israel was punished for its genocide before our eyes; if the United States was punished for overthrowing so many regimes and causing so many wars; if the United States were punished for the Iraq war; if the United States were punished for the coup in Iraq, Maidan in February 2014, I’d agree with you.

It would be great if governments were accountable. But what we like to do is say the other side is the wrong one and not to acknowledge our own sins.

For this, Jesus had it right. Why do you always point to the moat in the other eye when you have the plank or the beam in your own eye? To my mind, this is the basic point.

I would love to follow your line, Piers. I agree with it. We should have accountability for all the crimes that are committed. And the United States’ list is so long.

I have been tracking it for more than 40 years professionally. It’s just one war crime after another, including complicity in a genocide in Gaza during the last two years.

War crimes

After WWII, it was possible to hold the Nazis accountable. Germany was completely defeated — ignoring the Nazis who went to work for the Americans, obviously.

Nations like America, Russia, Israel, and the UK, have not been defeated. Therefore, it’s not possible to hold foreign politicians accountable in the same way.

Of course, this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t push for accountability or demand an international response to war criminals. Our politics would be in a much better state if Blair and New Labour had been punished for invading Iraq on unfounded claims. And it goes without saying, that everyone should support the International Criminal Court’s attempts to hold Israel responsible for the genocide.

The problem is that the mechanisms for justice and accountability are limited to waging war — which rarely works out … or sanctions — both of which make things worse.

Morgan isn’t wrong about Russia’s crimes. The issue is that he’s selectively correct. You won’t hear mainstream journalists like him arguing that Western nations should face accountability, and that’s a massive problem.

Featured image via Piers Morgan Uncensored

Comments 3

David Lewis says:

6 months ago

It could be argued that what Russia is doing in Ukraine is more justified than pretty much all the US does and certainly what Israel is doing.

Ukraine was part of the USSR so it is recovering lost land. More importantly, Ukraine has been asking to join the EU and NATO. It is hardly surprising that would not be accepted willingly by Russia.

Imagine the reaction by the US if a country opposed to the US set up military bases adjacent to the US?

The US has a long history of invading other countries it perceives are a threat, though they obviously are not.

All proxy wars are started by the US which, interestingly, it never wins. Winning, though, is not the point, causing instability and chaos is the game.

- Red Star2000 says:
  
  6 months ago
  
  Russia doen’t even want most of Ukraine – just the Russian-speaking regions, that have in any case voted in referendums to join the Russian Federation. Four of these are now part of the RF, Crimea has also voted to follow them, and other regions may do so in due course.
  
  Ukraine is effectively a dictatorship, with a puppet leader controlled by the US, and riddled with neo-nazis.
  
  All this stems from 2014, when a US / west backed coup deposed a democratically elected president who was deemed too friendly to Russia (ie: saw the advantages of being friendly with their next door neighbour). The coup triggered three regions of Ukraine to declare independence (two are now part of the RF, the being Crimea).
  
  This resulted in a civil war, with war crimes being recorded committed by Ukraine forces against their fellow Ukrainians, and 10,000+ killed – this has been pretty much erased from the official history. The breakaway regions asked Russia to intervene militarily, but Putin refrained, going instead down the diplomatic route (Minsk agreements – agreements that the West continually broke) before inally intervening in 2022 .
  
  I’m come to the conclusion that any claims in the Western MSM about Russia need to be taken with a spoonful of salt.
  
Gnu says:

6 months ago

What Piers was doing is what he does best. Set up a long line of dishonest propaganda points (That other people have long disproved to him in the past, carefully memory-holed), in the expectation that his current interlocutor will get lost in the minutiae and he can start shouting as he does to derail any counter-argument.

Sachs, being wise to this manoeuvre, outplayed him by avoiding that rhetorical trap, pointed out the entire basis for the moral hook was completely wrong.

Morgan, fx, will STILL throw at people that Hamas “Mass raped Israelis, burned and beheaded babies, intended to genocide every Israeli, murdered 1200 Israeli civilians on Oct 7th, and are only terrorists, and everyone agrees with this”. He KNOWS that every one of these claims is false, but sets a trap with this rhetoric.

He did exactly the same with Jeff, listing what any serious analyst knows were UKRAINIAN war crimes, Bucha was an Azov crime, and even pensioners were raped to death in Kursk – and filmed and broadcast to demoralise Russian society. It was Ukraine that tortured and murdered POWs, and again, recorded and released. JUST as Israhell is doing too.

But smart Sachs avoided his pathetic trap.

And when you think that Piers is considered one of the more ‘honest’ interviewers of the British media, the rest is simply effluvium from Glastonbury’s toilet pits after the festival.