钧声
By Jun Sheng
乌克兰危机持续牵动世界，防止发生大规模人道主义危机是当务之急。然而，危机的始作俑者美国一直奉行双重标准，一边标榜“反战、和平”，一边却为了谋求自身利益，对他国实施干涉、制裁，制造人道主义危机，给全球和平与安全带来巨大威胁。
As the Ukraine crisis drags on, preventing a massive humanitarian crisis is a pressing task at the moment. However, the US, the root cause of all chaos and calamity, is playing “double standards” now, clamoring for “no war, more peace” on the one hand and seeking self-interests on the other. Its interference in and sanctioning of other countries will create a humanitarian crisis and impose tremendous threats to global peace and security.
在此次危机中，平日里总是把“平等”“民主”“自由”“人权”等口号挂在嘴边的美西方政客和媒体，却说一套做一套，大搞种族偏见与双重标准：他们声称“相比叙利亚难民，乌克兰难民因是基督徒和白人更值得被同情”；在报道武装冲突和危机时，他们还公然打破“禁忌”，把肤色、种族、宗教信仰作为评判标准，将乌克兰民众与中东、北非难民做比较，潜台词是前者比后者“更优质”，“更不应该”承受这一切。种种令人瞠目的对比，充分暴露出美西方根深蒂固的高人一等的心态，这种充斥着种族主义的“双标”做派令世人侧目。
The American and western politicians and media, who are eloquent preachers of high-sounding slogans such as “equality”, “democracy”, “freedom” and “human rights”, have been adeptly practicing racial discrimination and double standards during the ongoing crisis. They say that the Ukrainian refugees are more worthy of compassion than the Syrians because they are white Christians. They, when reporting armed conflicts and crisis, took skin color, race and religious belief as criteria of judgment, a fragrant violation of general “taboos”, and compared the Ukrainians with Middle Eastern and North African refugees with the underlying message that the former is superior to the latter and doesn’t deserve what they are going through. Such mind-boggling comparisons laid bare the deep-rooted sense of superiority of the US and the West in general, astonishing and disgusting the world with their racist “double standards”.
“双重标准”凸显美西方的虚伪和傲慢。在一些西方媒体报道中，美国未经联合国授权就攻打伊拉克，不叫“入侵”叫“解放”，美国单边发起对阿富汗攻击，不叫“入侵”叫“反恐”。比起西方媒体对乌克兰局势的关注，同样遭受战火、遭受严重人道主义灾难的也门，几乎没怎么在美国媒体的报道中出现过。
The double standards reveal how phony and arrogant the US-led West is. According to western media, America attacked Iraq without UN authorization is “liberation” rather than “invasion”, and its unilateral attack of Afghanistan is “counterterrorism” rather than “invasion”. Posing a sharp contrast to how intensely the western media is focused on the Ukraine situation, they barely mention or even notice Yemen, a country that’s also ravaged by war and a severe humanitarian crisis.
更为讽刺的是，乌克兰今日的战火，“导火线”正是由美国埋下的。长期以来，为了打压和围堵俄罗斯，压缩其战略空间，美国违反承诺不断推进北约东扩，最终导致危机爆发。
Ironically, the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine today is caused by a fuse laid exactly by the US, whose consistent suppression and containment of Russia and squeezing of its strategic space over the years by pushing for NATO’s eastward expansion in breach of commitment to Russia have eventually led to the breakout of the crisis today.
回顾历史不难发现，美国早已是制造人道主义危机的“惯犯”。美国为维护其全球霸权，长期奉行干涉主义政策，屡屡炮制借口对他国发动军事打击。
Let’s take a look back and we’d see, with no surprise, America’s long track record of creating humanitarian crises, as evidenced by its constant interferences in and military operations against other countries based on made-up excuses, in order to preserve its global hegemony.
以美国为首的北约军队打着“避免人道主义灾难”的旗号，公然绕过联合国安理会，对当时的南斯拉夫联盟共和国进行了78天的持续轰炸，造成2000多名无辜平民丧生、6000多人受伤、近100万人流离失所、200多万人失去生活来源。
There was a time when the US-led NATO troops, upholding the banner of “avoiding a humanitarian disaster”, bypassed the UN Security Council and bombed the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for 78 days on end, killing more than 2,000 innocent civilians, injuring over 6,000, and leaving a million people homeless and over two million with nothing to live on.
美英等国以莫须有罪名侵入伊拉克，导致约20万至25万平民死亡，其中美军直接致死超过1.6万人；美军以打击“基地”组织为名发动阿富汗战争，20年来，累计有3万多名平民被美军杀死或因美军带来的战乱而死亡，另有6万多名平民受伤，约1100万人沦为难民……美国在世界各地到处煽风点火，非但未达成战争目的，最终还以溃败逃离收场，导致大量当地无辜民众家破人亡、流离失所。
There was a time when countries represented by the US and the UK invaded Iraq on a fabricated charge, killing 200,000-250,000 civilians, of which 16,000 deaths were directly caused by American troops. During the 20-year-long Afghan war launched by the US to allegedly fight al-Qaeda, more than 30,000 civilians were either killed by American troops or died because of the war they started, with another 60,000-plus injured and about 11 million becoming refugees…The list goes on. The US has been igniting war flames everywhere around the world, but has never really achieved what it set out for and always ended up fleeing in debacle and disgrace, leaving the innocent locals paying the price for its atrocities.
可即便自身早已劣迹斑斑、罪行累累，美国仍旧不思悔改，伙同盟友对他国实施严重违反国际法的单边制裁，加重人道主义危机。从封锁打压古巴，到公然劫掠阿富汗国家资产，再到宣布暂停向世卫组织缴纳会费……美国的霸凌行径遭到国际社会强烈谴责。联合国秘书长古特雷斯曾指责称，全球正在抗击新冠肺炎疫情，削减世卫组织或任何其他人道主义组织所需资金不合时宜。
Despite such a shitty record rife with crimes and catastrophes, the US never for a moment stops to reflect on itself but continues to gang up with its allies to impose unilateral sanctions against other countries in glaring violation of international law, which only aggravates the humanitarian crisis it started in the first place. From imposing the embargo on Cuba to blatantly stealing Afghanistan’s national assets to suspending the payment of fees to WHO, America’s bullying actions have been strongly condemned by the international community. UN Secretary-General António Guterres criticized the US for slashing its funding to WHO or any other humanitarian organization at a bad time as the world was in the middle of fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
多行不义必自毙。在乌克兰问题上，我们奉劝美方切实反躬自省，停止火上浇油，为缓和局势、解决问题拿出实际行动，否则只会造成更大规模的人道主义危机，给地区和世界带来深重灾难。
Injustice is doomed to destruction. We advise the US side to do some serious soul-searching, stop pouring oil on the Ukraine issue, and take concrete actions to mitigate the situation and solve the problem. Otherwise, it will only expand the scale of the humanitarian crisis and plunge the region and the world into an abyss of suffering.
