- The ICC loses credibility and joins a real clown world of UN, World Bank, IMF and the western countries.
Perhaps it was destined to happen that the world would wake up one day to the realization that the global institutions – United Nations, World Bank, IMF, NATO, International Criminal Court, etc. – setup after World War II - were, in fact, tools engineered to keep the Anglo-Saxon, i.e. Western control over the world.
Such opinion is often derided as leftist conspiracy mongering. But, thanks to US, UK, EU, G-7 and NATO cabal, the opinion has become a stark reality.
The catalyst for this is Ukraine and its West backed murderous neo-Nazi regime.
The current hostilities in Ukraine were not an overnight event, but they were building up for a long time – right from the collapse and dissolution of Soviet Union to the deceitful promise of No-NATO expansion made by the USA.
In spite of the “verbal” assurances given to Gorbachev, one-by-one, former soviet block countries were being made members of NATO by the USA, with Ukraine as the last one remaining.
Alarmed by this development, Russia felt threatened regarding its security and voiced this concern repeatedly demanding security guarantees from the Western world. But to no avail.
The ultimate goal of NATO was always Ukraine, which was going to be used by the western world as a spearhead against Russia, in order to weaken it and cause its further disintegration into several republics which would have allowed the USA and its NATO bullies to control Russia’s vast natural resources.
But the problem in Ukraine was the pro-Russian Yanukovych regime, which was proving to be a hindrance to the schemes of western world.
This problem was solved through the violent of 2014 called the Maidan Revolution – engineered by the USA – removing the Yanukovych regime and bringing current neo-Nazi regime to power. After coming to power, the neo-Nazi regime started committing horrific acts of violence against the Russian speaking population culminating in the most gruesome Odessa massacre.
These violent acts forced the people of Donbas to launch a struggle for independence from Ukraine.
Minsk-II accord – that would have brought an end to hostilities in Ukraine – was just a façade created by the West in order to gain time to arm Ukraine with NATO weapons and training to solve the question of Donbas once and for all.
That would have meant destruction of Russian speaking population in the east which proved to be the proverbial last straw for Russia which had so far naively believed in the Minsk-II accord.
This development left no choice for Russia but to launch the SMO.
At first, Western world thought of SMO as a god-sent opportunity to finally subdue Russia by overthrowing Putin Government and bringing a western-compliant one in its place – just like Yeltsin Government in the 90s.
USA and its allies believed that the imposition of sanctions – economic, political and social – would bring pain to the Russian citizens who would rise against the Putin government causing its downfall.
But every action has reaction. The sanctions imposed on everything Russian – oil, trade, banking, travel etc. – not only failed to produce the desired effect but have spectacularly backfired. The Russian economy has weathered the sanctions levied against them and remained robust; whereas the same cannot be said of the western woke nations.
The countries that imposed sanctions – G7, EU – have suffered a severe blowback in the form of rising inflation, higher energy cost, rising food prices, etc. Rising energy costs have made European industries simply un-competitive, forcing many of them to close, file for bankruptcy or simply relocate to the USA in order to take advantage of cheaper energy cost.
Even though the western world was screaming hoarse and arm-twisting countries to follow them in sanctioning Russia, many countries in the world saw the real purpose of the sanctions and balked at them or refused to go along realizing that they, too would be in the line for the same treatment if they ever desire to go against or challenge the western hegemony.
The UN – a joke of an organization – has not only failed to bring peace to Ukraine hostilities but has consistently done the bidding of the western world, along with many of its agencies, while ignoring continued shelling by Ukrainians of civilians in Donbass and execution of Russian POWs with weapons supplied by the “champions of democracy and human rights” in the western world.
The combined assault led by US and its allies through UN, World Bank, IMF, SWIFT, European Union, Sports Federations, ban on air travel, etc. have simply proved ineffective. Russia’s trade surplus for 2022 has increased 1.7 times over 2021, whereas USA and EU are struggling with rising inflation, high costs of food and a Banking Crisis on slow boil. Even Moody’s – a rating agency - has cut its outlook on US banking sector to “Negative”.
All these global institutions – under the diktat of western world – are bending over backwards for accommodating Ukraine’s interest.
Consider the amounts of financial packages designed by World Bank, IMF and EU despite knowing fully well the precarious condition of Ukrainian economy. As if this is not enough, the useless WB/IMF have predicted GDP growth of 1% for war ravaged Ukraine in 2023!
Having failed to achieve their cherished dream of seeing a weakened Russia and the establishment of permanent western hegemony, the western world is now consumed by hatred towards anything Russian, and specifically Putin, who has lit the fire against the oppressive USA led world order.
As a last resort, they have now turned to ICC, which is not even recognized by USA, Ukraine and Russia.
The ICC has issued an arrest warrant against Putin on the premise that Russia helped evacuate children from war-ravaged Donbas in order to save them from becoming victims. The truth is Russia evacuated Russian speaking children from eastern parts of Ukraine to Russia for their safety.
The statement issued by the Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan KC makes a hilarious reading and just highlights ICC’s intellectual bankruptcy and its sealed bondage to Western interest.
Ironically, the Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan KC has no guts to get arrest warrant issued against Chinese President Xi Jin Ping for what he is doing with Uyghur Muslims in north-western region Xinjiang of China despite USA Secretary of State Anthony Blinken saying on record “China iscommitting genocide and crimes against humanity”!
The same ICC has conveniently overlooked NATO’s war crimes in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya, deaths of Iraqi children etc. etc., but has taken the issue with Russia for evacuating Russian speaking children to save them from raging hostilities. This is a height of complete absurdity. Rather Western hypocrisy has touched the abyss.
President Biden claims that ICC warrant against Putin is justified, but conveniently forgets to mention that USA had withdrawn its signature to the ICC accord long back and does not recognize it.
Interestingly, former ambassador John Bolton – a war-hawk – considers ICC as dangerous organization. In 2018, he had even threatened to sanction ICC and its Judges if they investigated war crimes in Afghanistan. He also went to threaten the ICC judges with sanctions and prosecution in American court system. Biden seems to have conveniently forgotten this.
As ambassador correctly stated, ICC is truly a dangerous organization.
It does not matter if a leader in any country is popularly elected and beloved. But what matters is, that the “Rules, or bounds” set up by western world must not be crossed.
If that happens, then such a leader and that country would find itself in the cross-hairs of western block which is ready to heap sanctions after sanctions as punishment until the country acquiesces to the western demands or suffers a “Maidan”.
ICC issuing a warrant against Putin but not against the Kiev regime which is committing acts of terrorism against the Russian speaking population in eastern Ukraine, the institution has just lost all credibility.
It does not matter that this warrant is toothless and lacks legitimacy as Russia does not recognize its jurisdiction, nevertheless the mere issuance of this warrant – an exercise fraught with danger – shows that the ICC has beclowned itself.
One must, therefore thank Ukraine and its backers – the hegemonistic western world – for exposing the true face of these “Global Institutions”. .
A real Clown world!
