COMMENT | After Ukraine, who’s next?

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”

- Edmund Burke

COMMENT | Malaysia’s failure to take a stand against Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine runs the risk of making us look cowards in the eyes of the world.

Yes, no country should be a mere puppet of the West and blindly support Nato or ignore Western hypocrisy in some matters. But Putin’s arguments for invading Ukraine does not appear to hold up to even the mildest scrutiny.

The rest of the world seems to sit quietly by while he acts with absolute impunity. The implication is clear: the powerful can conquer whoever they want, whenever they want.

Hopefully, Malaysia will not be cowed by other geopolitical powers into silence over this blatant violation of international law and norms - especially not after the wide consensus that MH17 was shot down by a missile launched from areas controlled by Russian separatists in Ukraine. Surely, we owe at least that much to the victims of that act of...