By Oliver Stuenkel, Foreign Policy, 02 November 2024

Many countries perceive a double standard in the West’s contrasting responses to Gaza and Ukraine.

The war between Israel and Hamas is bad news for Ukraine. The conflict has already shifted news coverage and public attention in the West away from Russian aggression. It may also force Western exporters to divert portions of their arms supplies from Ukraine to Israel, as the United States is already thought to have done. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned last week of a “long and difficult war ahead,” which could give Russian President Vladimir Putin an additional incentive to drag out the war in Ukraine, betting on the West’s declining interest in—or capacity to—arming Kyiv as time goes on.

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By Oliver Stuenkel, an associate professor of international relations at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo.

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