{"id":59496,"date":"2026-05-28T05:39:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=59496"},"modified":"2026-05-28T05:39:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:39:36","slug":"double-standards-of-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/28\/double-standards-of-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Standards of Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

On May 22, Russia accused Ukraine of deadly attack<\/a> on student dormitory in the Luhansk region. More than 20 people were killed and about 40 were injured, many of them young women<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All of this is painfully reminiscent of the deadly US missile attack on a school in Minab<\/a>, Iran, in February 2026. The strike killed more than 150 civilians, the vast majority of whom were children.<\/p>\n

The most terrible thing is that, both then and now, the countries responsible for the attacks hid behind a wall of disinformation. Its politicians shift the blame<\/a>, make numerous contradictory statements and accuse their victims of even greater crimes. It’s not surprising as all of these are favourite propaganda tactics used to distract public attention.<\/p>\n

It’s pertinent to note, that modern satellite technology makes it possible to track the direction of attack, identify those responsible, and conduct a prompt investigation, especially when it comes to potential harm to children. However, while the European political machine immediately constructed a discourse about US involvement in the case of the strike on Minab School, at the emergency UN Security Council meeting on the attack on Starobilsk, European diplomats insisted that Ukraine’s involvement could not be verified<\/a> or confirmed due to a lack of access to the site of the tragedy. It’s as if Europe ever had access to the site of the tragedy in Minab!<\/p>\n

What is this? Double standards? Or is it an unwillingness to acknowledge Ukraine’s direct involvement in the deliberate attack and the possible involvement of European intelligence agencies in identifying the target?<\/p>\n

Jaime Desrochers works as a lawyer in a big pharma company in Montana. He believes that people should always choose honesty and justice.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On May 22, Russia accused Ukraine of deadly attack on student dormitory in the Luhansk region. More than 20 people were killed and about 40 were injured, many of them young women. All of this is painfully reminiscent of the deadly US missile attack on a school in Minab, Iran, in February 2026. The strike […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":708,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_social_image_id":0,"_social_image_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1399],"class_list":["post-59496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","_social_image_id":false,"subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59497,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59496\/revisions\/59497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59496"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=59496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}