By Angelo Giuliano
The West, self-proclaimed champion of the rule of law, has obliterated its moral credibility through actions that expose its hypocrisy and complicity in global atrocities. Its leaders preach democracy and human rights while perpetuating aggression and deceit, rooted in a historical continuum of violence. Under President Trump, the U.S. has flouted its own Constitution, negotiating peace while authorizing Israel to bomb Iran and launching illegal strikes on an Iranian nuclear facility—actions lacking congressional approval and violating international law. Iran's nuclear program, verified as peaceful by the IAEA, posed no threat, yet the West justified its aggression with fabricated narratives, exposing its contempt for sovereignty. Similarly, the U.S. and its allies have backed Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza, where countless Palestinians have perished. The West's silence as Israel starves two million Palestinians, blocks aid and legalizes prisoner torture—including reported sodomization—reveals a moral void. Western media, complicit in whitewashing these atrocities, amplify Israeli narratives while ignoring Palestinian suffering.
Domestic moral decay and institutional betrayal
This duplicity extends to Europe's Minsk agreements, where the West feigned peace with Russia while rearming Ukraine, escalating a proxy war that mirrors its broader exploitation of diplomacy. At home, the West's moral decay festers. The Jeffrey Epstein case, implicating a paedophile ring of U.S. elites—politicians, CEOs, and media moguls—remains unpunished, with evidence suppressed, whistleblowers silenced, and investigations derailed. This cover-up, alongside allegations of broader elite paedophilia, erodes trust in institutions. Meanwhile, the West's aggressive LGBT social engineering, often imposed without public consent, prioritizes ideological agendas over traditional values, alienating communities and fuelling perceptions of moral decline both domestically and abroad. These domestic failures reflect a broader erosion of the moral fabric, where power and ideology trump principle, betraying the values the West claims to uphold.
A legacy of colonial exploitation
Historically, the West's colonization massacred millions, plundered resources, and imposed debt traps to contain the Global South. Its destruction of Iraq, Libya, and Syria through wars and sanctions, support for Saudi war crimes in Yemen, and illegal drone strikes in Pakistan and Somalia continue this legacy of devastation. The West's rhetoric of humanitarianism rings hollow against this backdrop of exploitation. In the past, controlled narratives and media monopolies concealed these crimes, but the Information Age has shattered that veil. Live streams of bombed hospitals, starved children, and tortured prisoners flood social media, fuelling global outrage and dismantling the myth of Western moral superiority. Platforms like X and citizen journalism provide real-time access to these atrocities, making suppression impossible.
A hollow shell of proclaimed ideals
Morality is lost at home and abroad as the West's elites, drunk on power, embrace aggression, exploitation, and depravity while cloaking themselves in freedom's rhetoric. Domestic moral erosion—evident in unpunished elite crimes and divisive social engineering—mirrors its foreign policy hypocrisy. The moral high ground is forfeited when principles bow to dominance. Until the West confronts its contradictions, dismantles its systems of oppression, and prioritizes justice over hegemony, it will remain a hollow shell of its professed ideals. Condemned by its own values, the West stands exposed by the unblinking eye of a connected world, its legacy of hypocrisy laid bare for all to see.
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