Common Sense Global·Aug 24, 2026
Europe's Selective Outrage
Europe's Selective Outrage What the Russia-Ukraine War Reveals About Western Double Standards The Argument, Stated Plainly Since February 2022, the war in Ukraine has been framed in most Western media and political rhetoric as a simple morality play: a democratic nation defending itself against an unprovoked authoritarian invasion. That framing is not wrong on the facts of the invasion itself. But critics of Western policy argue it conceals a deeper and more uncomfortable pattern — that European and American outrage over Russian aggression is selective, strategic, and shot through with hypocrisy that undermines its own moral authority.