Former President of Guyana Donald Ramotar in a letter to the Stabroek News expressed his support for Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. He is of the view that the failure of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to guarantee that Ukraine won’t be accepted into that body justifies the invasion of Ukraine.
The former leader of Guyana also condemned CARICOM for making statements that are not helpful and for being “cowed” into not expressing the need for Russian security concerns to be taken seriously. He also accused the Guyanese media of censorship by shutting away other’s point of view because it does not correspond to the narrative of the corporate media or that which is being peddled by the leaders of NATO countries.
According to Ramotar, the local media prefer to join the corporate media abroad and work to demonize Putin by talking about his “imperial ambitions.” “It boggles the mind. After all, Russia has no troops on the borders of the US or Germany, France etc. but all those countries have military personnel and forces on Russian borders. The US is separated by two huge oceans from Europe but it has military forces on Russia’s border, he said.
That view by the former President was however corrected by the Editor-in-Chief who noted that Russia does have troops on the borders of two NATO countries: Poland and Lithuania by virtue of its heavily armed exclave, Kaliningrad which is also home to its Baltic fleet. Donald Ramotar was Guyana’s 7th Executive President who served from 2011 to 2015.
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