Much of the world is ambivalent about the Ukraine war, and should be.

Originally published in The Times of Israel, by Radha Stirling, Expert Witness & Founder of Due Process International

There has been a mostly muted response to the war in Ukraine across much of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East; and there’s a lot going on in the silence.

Fifty-two nations either abstained or simply didn’t vote in the UN resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and their silence should be best interpreted, not as condonement of the invasion, nor as hostility to the West, but as ambivalence about the emerging new international order implied by the vote.