Modise issued her diatribe against warmongers in the capital of a country that is waging an unprovoked war against its much smaller neighbour Ukraine.
Warmongers “must be dragged kicking and screaming to the table of peace and multilateralism”, Defence Minister Thandi Modise told a conference on international security in Moscow on Tuesday.
“I am confident that we will emerge from this conference stronger and more united in our determination to continue building a peaceful world,” she said. South Africa strongly believed “that proxy wars must stop”, she added. Perhaps this was a clue to the apparent incongruity of her remarks. Maybe South Africa sees Ukraine as a mere proxy in a war between the West and Russia rather than an independent nation being systematically destroyed by Russian artillery.“Through our own silence, inaction and selective morality, we have allowed warlords to reign supreme across the world,” Modise said.
The SA government had all along been declaring itself as neutral and non-aligned in the war — but South Africa had now shown itself as not neutral.
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