White House shows its true colors

The impetuous way the White House lambasted a widely acclaimed peace proposal Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has made to end the Ukraine crisis demonstrates how adverse the United States is to the prospect of a cease-fire and peace being brokered in Europe.

Lula said during his visit to Beijing on Saturday that "the United States needs to stop encouraging war and start talking about peace. The European Union needs to start talking about peace."

And during his following visit to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, the Brazilian leader called for creating "another kind of G20" to end the crisis and establish peace, which should consist of parties that are not involved in the conflict, disqualifying the US and the EU.