27 April 2022
SI—After declaring that Ukraine won the "Battle of Kiev" (!), Lloyd Austin called for "moving heaven and earth" to defeat Russia. Meanwhile, the lectures from the EU’s von der Leyen and other arrogant EU officials to the Raisina Dialogue in India provoked a polite rebuke from the Indian Foreign Minister: "Please show me which part of the Rules-Based Order justified what the world did in Afghanistan?" What is needed is open dialogue about the security guarantees and development aid needed to overcome war and deprivation, not threats for regime change against nations which refuse to surrender their sovereignty to a criminal cabal of global bankers.