Media coverage How countries outside the west report on the Ukraine ‘disagreement'

Many an insult has been hurled at Vladimir Putin since he invaded Ukraine a fortnight ago, causing chaos, heartbreak and death. A bloodstained aggressor. A 21st -century Stalin. A total fucking dickhead. Beelzebub.

- Tom Phillips, Rhoda Kwan, Emmanuel Akinwotu

“Look at the face of Putin. You will see the devil,” one US commentator opined as a maternity hospital was bombed in Mariupol.

But for the Venezuelan pundit Alberto Aranguibel, Putin’s 24 February invasion was “ la guerra necesaria ” – the necessary war.

The Chinese academic Wang Shuo saw it as “a US-created crisis”. “The strategic selfishness of the US has brought more disasters to the world,” Wang grumbled in the state-run Global Times, blaming Washington’s “selfish and short-sighted action” for plunging Ukraine into war.

And for the editorial board at Mexico’s La Jornada newspaper, it was time to abandon the unhelpful fantasy that Putin’s “ambition and wickedness” was the sole culprit and face “ the difficult truth ” of how Nato’s eastward push had paved the way for disaster.