Burned column of army autos are seen on a freeway, as Russia’s assault on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv area, Ukraine, April 5, 2022. (REUTERS/Gleb Garanich)
Ukraine-Russia battle: India has chosen facet of peace, Jaishankar says in Lok Sabha
A DAY after India, in its assertion on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) assembly, “unequivocally condemned” the civilian killings within the Ukrainian metropolis of Bucha, the federal government instructed Lok Sabha on Wednesday that it helps the decision for an “independent investigation” ” into the deaths. Countering criticism on the Centre’s stand, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar stated India is “strongly against” the battle, and “if it has chosen a side, it is a side of peace, and for an immediate end to violence”.
Replying to the dialogue on the scenario in Ukraine, Jaishankar stated: “We are strongly against the conflict, we believe that no solution can be arrived at by shedding blood and at the cost of innocent lives. In this day and age, dialogue and diplomacy are the right answers to any disputes”.
Stating that India was “deeply disturbed” by the Bucha killings, he stated: “We strongly condemn the killings which have taken place there. This is a particularly severe matter and we assist the decision for an unbiased investigation.”
Russia vs the West: A conflict of civilisations
One of the world’s most derided visions of worldwide affairs is Samuel Huntington’s notorious “Clash of Civilisations”. Huntington noticed the state of the post-Cold War battle as mainly being between civilisational complexes that had shared historical past, geographic contiguity and a typical tradition. He argued that the first axis of future battle can be cultural fault strains between civilisations reasonably than between political ideologies.
Huntington mapped civilisations largely in step with geographically clustered ethno-religious groupings. For instance alliance, he predicted (in 1993) that the Islamic world can be the Western tradition’s chief antagonist, the chance of a Sino-Islamic, and positioned India (“Hindu” tradition) and Russia (“Orthodox” tradition) as “swing” civilisations”. It is especially attention-grabbing to mud off Huntington’s pages and revisit his predictions concerning Russia and India. Most importantly, he additionally recognized Ukraine as a novel “cleft” between civilisations because of the linguistic and spiritual divide between western and jap Ukraine.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
