Is America Showing Double Standard for Not Sending Aid to Turkey and Syria?

Touch on the link below and read this entire article.  You can begin to get the flavor of how some people view the power that America and its allies have wielded these last 75 years. Resentment.  The author of the article is pretty upset that America and its democratic allies seem to not be sending its “fair share” of aid to Syria and Turkey.  Maybe it is true?  Maybe it is hard to send aid to governments who plan your destruction.  Maybe Allah (their demon god) actually is punishing them, as many Muslims believe?  How surprised the world will be when America does vanish and they find out that NO ONE is sending a nuclear generator aboard a ship to provide electricity?  No one is around to send barges of food.  No one is around willing to fight and die so that strangers might have a hope of having a better life.  America isn’t perfect and she’s getting more sick all the time, but she is the last best hope for a Satan-controlled world.  As Christians we do have the directive to help our neighbors but let’s also remember that “God sets up and tears down nations”.  Turkey and Syria have rejected God/Jesus and work against Israel constantly.  Just maybe they will reap what they sew?  Hard to watch and hard to know what’s going on here.

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Have western leaders abandoned their values and put politics before human solidarity, or have these values always been flexible? [human solidarity? Tell me what that even means!]

The European continent accumulated its wealth by colonising other countries and continents. The Portuguese, Spanish, British, Italian, Austro-Hungarian, French and German empires plundered countries to steal their natural resources to bring the wealth back to the European continent and build a strong industrial economy.

After the Second World War, the US empire emerged on the European continent. It extended its control and authority over the continent, where it reaped the spoils of war after the defeat of Germany. [Yep!  Through 6000 yrs of human history, “he with the gold makes the rules!”]

Because of the scale of the destruction, it could be many weeks before the rubble is cleared. Few will be paying attention to national or international politics. Attention will be focused on the state’s social support for rebuilding or trying to absorb the disaster, and on finding solutions for those who have survived. Many families have been torn apart, thousands have been killed or injured, minors left alone must be cared for, and tens of thousands of people will need ongoing medical care. The burden on both the Turkish and Syrian governments will be enormous.

People might not think of blaming their leaders for the consequences of a natural disaster, but they will have plenty of anger towards others who have the opportunity to help but choose not to. In the case of Syria, a country exhausted by years of EU and US sanctions, the consequences are more painful for the population than in Turkey, which receives aid from all over the world.

In theory, sanctions exclude medical aid and medicines, but they can hinder the delivery of such aid, as we saw during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, the West is creating obstacles to the delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria, and then blaming the Syrian government for the West’s lack of humanity.

Meanwhile, the Syrian government has appealed to its friends and foes alike to help the Syrian people. The airports of Aleppo and Damascus are open to anyone wishing to deliver humanitarian aid. 

The UAE, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Russia, China, Algeria and Tunisia have sent planes, and other countries such as Saudi Arabia, Indiaand Pakistan have  been providing assistance. But Syria needs hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild the war-torn country. Syria’s oil and gas wealth is being stolen by the US, whose forces are stationed in northeastern Syria, controlled by the Kurds. Hundreds of earthquake aftershocks have been recorded in Turkey and Syria, causing further harm to already damaged buildings.

The humanity praised by western leaders is absent in the darkest catastrophe of a natural disaster. Dozens of hospitals have been destroyed, and thousands of people have lost their lives, family members, belongings and shelters. This is apparently not enough to move western leaders, who have sent tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons to support Ukraine after Russia launched its war, but prevented crumbs from reaching those who did not lose their lives in the earthquake. 

This is a dangerous sign that western leaders have lost their core values. Double standards are the new absolute values, as revealed by recent events. Western leaders are disconnected from the values that Europeans and westerners believe in.

Countries that do not claim to be democratic have shown themselves to be more humane than western countries when it comes to helping those facing natural disasters. Actions reveal the true values of nations, and double standards are the true motto of countries that claim civilisation, humanity, democracy, freedom and concern for human rights.

 https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/turkey-syria-earthquake-aid-gap-western-double-standards-reveals