It’s the Epstein files, nothing else!

In 1992, while devising election campaign strategies for Bill Clinton’s successful election campaign, James Carville, Clinton’s political strategist, coined this famous political catch- phrase, which is now applied to almost all core political issues like healthcare, budget deficits etc.

While much ink has been spent on Venezuela debacle and its wider ramifications, the “Why now” question of the Venezuela debacle has begun to get traction – both inside US and internationally.

It has become clear that the Venezuela strike has nothing to do about drugs but is all about oil, regime change, but mostly something else.

        

By attacking Venezuela without any legal authorization and trampling on all international laws and norms, the USA has become a bandit nation, invading sovereign states and grabbing their resources, just like Somali pirates.

The only difference is that Somali pirates are a loose group while the US pirates are a nation, trying to maintain its dying hegemony.

But the Venezuela strike has made few facts clear:

The USA can charge any leader who dares to cross its path, or does not do its bidding, on bogus charges, while at the same time can also pardon real drug traffickers – when it suits them - like ex-president of Honduras, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison for pushing tons of narcotics to US.

The Venezuela strike has also brought into clear focus that the United Nations is 21st century version of “League of Nations” and has become utterly useless. Time to stop asking for reforming this bloated and toothless organization, including expansion of security council.

The gun-boat diplomacy has demonstrated clearly to other nations that in order to protect themselves, they must arm themselves with nuclear weapons. (SIPRI is going to cry rivers of tears about such prospects, thanks to lawless nation, USA.)

Given the impotence of UN, new alliances and grouping are bound to come up, further fracturing the world order.

There will be many more ugly ramifications of this naked aggression impacting world order and the rule of law – both in the US and internationally. Threats, now being directed at Greenland, have prompted European countries to express support for Greenland.

In response to threats directed at Colombia, Colombian President, Gustavo Petro, has mobilized his army. Cuba, with its 50,000 men army has offered Venezuela, in defending itself from the US aggression.

These insane streams of threats of more chaos, bloodshed, trampling of international laws and norms etc, have prompted many to ask the question: “Why now”?

Several theories are being floated:

1. Could it be a desire to re-assert America’s diminishing dominance over world order – a unipolar world order that it has unjustly ascribed to itself and grown used to it? 
2. Could it be because of “genuine concern” for ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’ and ‘human lives’? or 
3. Could it be because of the 800-pound Gorilla in the room - “The Epstein Files”?

Theory no. 1 is a fait accompli. Given the impotence of UN, new grouping like BRICS is becoming more attractive to nations around the world as it provides freedom from the shackles of dollar dominance. But that still does not shrike as the compelling reason for the insane threats directed at many countries.

We can safely strike out theory no. 2 as US applies terms like “Freedom” and “democracy” selectively when it suits its interests. So is the case with human rights. A mere tut-tut about the killings of the Hindus in Bangladesh but enthusiastic embrace of dictators like Asim Munir, is prime example.

That leaves us with theory no.3 as the only logical one.

Saturday, January 3rd was the day AG Pam Bondi was required to submit report to congress explaining about the redactions made to the Epstein files.

So far, less that 1% of the files have been released and all sorts of excuses have been made for the delay in releasing the entire files despite the unanimously passed law – “Epstein Files Transparency Act” – by both congress and senate, mandating so. Now, if AG Pam Bondi had submitted the report, the news cycles, surely, would have blasted the details of that report all over the world giving a strong boost to the feeling of a massive cover-up to protect rich pedophiles.

Given the dismal job market, rising health costs, and rising inflation, the report would have driven Trump’s ratings further down.

Many voices – politicians, legal luminaries etc. – have now begun to raise this rationale as the prime reason for the Venezuela strike.

               

Colombia’s President, Gustavo Petro, has openly voiced Epstein’s files as the reason for the strike on Venezuela.

AG Pam Bondi, who has vociferously shouted from the rooftops about bringing the full force of law against President Nicolas Maduro – indicted on false charges, is herself facing inherent contempt of congress charges which are being considered against her by Rep. Thomas Massie (R) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D). 

Both congress members have also hinted at the legal action against AG Pam Bondi and DoJ for the delay in release of the Epstein files.

Truly a bizarre nation.

As the congressional and public’s clamor for the Epstein files grow louder, so will be the tantrums, threats directed at different nations by the lawless President in whose dictionary the word “Law” does not apply to him, but applies only to his opponents.

• Trump is hurling threats at Colombia, whose president is openly raging at Donald Trump. 
• European Union has strongly sided with Greenland over Trump’s threats. 
• Pentagon’s spy plane, Poseidon P-8, is circling Mexico. 
• Rubio is threatening Cuba and 
• Trump is also hurling insane threats at Iran.

The man, Donald Trump, seems hell-bent on setting the world on fire by creating more crises, just to keep the exploding Epstein files scandal out of new cycles and the desire to protect the rich and powerful pedophiles.

At some point, there is going to come a time when nations are going to say “enough” and retaliate against the lawless nation. It could mean diplomatic and economic breakup, or it could mean armies fighting against the rogue nation, as Colombian president has hinted and actively preparing his armed forces to fight against threats from the out of control Donald Trump.

And that would mean start of World War III.

Whatever happens – given the frenzied pace of threats, the menacing military maneuvers, etc. – it all comes down to one simple reason: “It’s the Epstein Files, nothing else!

Pirate and the Kidnapper-in-Chief

Kidnapper & Victim

USA's Federal Kagaroo Court in New York has charge-sheeted Maduro (along with his wife, son, and others): 

• Narco-terrorism conspiracy 
• Cocaine importation conspiracy 
• Possession of machine guns and destructive devices  
• Conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices

Looking at these charges, let us peep deep into the drugs/narcotics smuggling data of DEA, USA itself.

The basic question is "Which country in the American continent is the largest producer of narcotics and who exports to the USA?".

Colombia is the largest producer of cocaine in the Americas, with record-high cultivation and production estimated at over 3,708 tons globally in 2023, primarily driven by expanded coca bush areas and higher yields in the country. 

Cocaine remains one of the most significant illicit drugs produced in the region by volume. Mexico, however, is the leading producer of synthetic narcotics like fentanyl, methamphetamine, and heroin in the Americas, with Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) such as the Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel operating large-scale clandestine labs using precursor chemicals sourced mainly from China. (Source: DEA, USA).

Peru and Bolivia are secondary producers of cocaine, but their output is significantly lower than Colombia's. Mexico is the primary exporter of illegal drugs to the USA, controlling the wholesale trafficking of fentanyl, methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine across the U.S.-Mexico border. 

Mexican TCOs source cocaine from South American producers like Colombia and handle its transit, while directly producing and exporting synthetics and heroin. Other countries, such as Colombia, Peru, and transit nations like Ecuador and Venezuela, play roles in production or routing, but Mexico dominates direct exports to the U.S. market.

Venezuela is not a significant direct exporter of narcotics to the United States, according to data from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), U.S. State Department, and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

Key Narcotics and Venezuela's Role - 

Fentanyl and synthetic opioids (the primary drivers of U.S. overdose deaths): Venezuela plays no known role in production or trafficking. The DEA's 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment identifies Mexico as the overwhelming source, using precursors from China. No South American country, including Venezuela, is linked to fentanyl flows to the U.S.

Cocaine: Venezuela serves primarily as a transit country for cocaine produced in Colombia (the world's top producer), with some secondary processing. U.S. estimates indicate 200–250 metric tons of cocaine transited Venezuela annually in recent assessments (e.g., 2020–2023 levels persisted per State Department reports). However, most of this is destined for Europe or the Caribbean, not the U.S.

Direct Exports to the USA: 

Direct exports to the USA are minimal: No established maritime routes directly from Venezuela to the U.S. exist- as per UNODC seizure data.

The only documented direct pathway is limited air trafficking (e.g., couriers or private flights).

U.S. bound cocaine predominantly flows through the Eastern Pacific (74–80% via Central America/Mexico) or overland routes from Colombia, with only a small fraction (historically single-digit percentages) via Caribbean corridors that may touch Venezuela.

Experts and reports (e.g., UNODC World Drug Report 2025, WOLA analyses) describe Venezuela's contribution to U.S. cocaine supply as a "sliver" or minor secondary role, far below primary routes from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico-controlled distribution.

Precise quantities of narcotics successfully exported directly from Venezuela to the U.S. are not publicly quantified in official reports due to the clandestine nature of trafficking and focus on seizures/origins. Available evidence indicates the amount reaching the U.S. market is low relative to total inflows, with Mexican transnational criminal organizations dominating wholesale distribution into the United States.

However, President Trump and the USA Government does not take any action against the major players and makes an arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on the charges of narcotics smuggling.

World is not naive as to not to understand the real motive of takeover of the 303 billion oil reserves of Venezuela. Narcotics and Arms smuggling is a frivolous excuse that no one except Donald Trump will believe.

Attack on Venezuela is a crystal International Thuggery committed by the President of the USA. In fact, President Donald Trump has outperformed the Nigerians, Somalian pirates by attacking the oil fields and not the oil tankers on high seas.

The arrest and whisking of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by the USA army Commander-in-Chief President Donald Trump is no less than cheap kidnapping like that of an ordinary gangster on the streets of Chicago or Bronx. Both indulge in kidnapping the victim for a ransom. It is only the scale of monetary stake that differentiate these two kidnappers.

A new Kidnapper and Pirate has risen on the horizon. 

Will the King Dollar be a casualty of, among others, “The EPSTEIN FILES”?

 

Will the King Dollar finally lose its status as the world’s reserve currency and what would be the catalyst for such a scenario to happen? This is the question that is being considered with dread in the financial markets around the world as the financial markets would simply go into turmoil creating all sorts of consequences for the world.

Getting the dollar knocked off its perch as the world’s reserve currency would also bring ruination to the US economy. Future successive administrations would be faced with a herculean task to pull the economy out of its trouble and recover its number one position. A loss of something - like credibility – is very difficult to recover.

By using the dollar and the threats of sanctions, the US has managed to somehow to weather the challenges to dollar’s status as a reserve currency, but as the law of nature dictates, nothing lasts forever.  The dollar’s run as world reserve currency was bound to come to an end someday.

Even though there is a growing anger among the world community about the use of the dollar as a soft weapon by the US, the dollar has survived due to lack of alternatives. But unfolding global chaos might have just put the dollar on the fast track to its loss of status.

Growing numbers of countries are tired of constant bullying and threats of sanctions, are on the lookout for some other mechanism that would free them not only from the shackle of the US dollar but also maintain their sovereignty.

Here the new political block BRICS comes into focus which has the ability to take transact nearly 40% trade not in dollars but in the national currencies of the respective countries.

Donald Trump is becoming aware of this fact and if the dollar loses its status as the reserve currency; he will go down as the “worst president” in US history.

Hence, his crazed rants on that pathetic social platform threatening BRICS countries with tariffs.

There are four factors that would hasten the demise of dollar as the reserve currency – The BRICS Group, Big Beautiful Bill, Growing anxiety about Trade Wars, and finally, the elephant in the room – The Epstein Files.

Consider the first factor: The BRICS group and what it offers

The recent summit in Brazil was a kind of momentous gathering as 10 new countries have been granted partner status bringing the total to 20.

At this summit, the group adopted the following points:

ü   Commitment to strength internal cooperation under the expanded BRICS framework

ü   Commitment to strengthen multilateralism – e.g. multi-polarity.

ü   Strengthening UN charter, and the international law

ü   Increased participation of developing countries in global decision making

ü Strengthening the Global governance of artificial intelligence (AI for the benefit of humanity), called upon the UN to take a lead position in devising rules for AI.

ü   Expanded the BRICS grouping by accepting 10 new countries as partner states

ü   And, committed to boost trade in global south

With BRICS PAY, New development Bank and the desire to settle trade among member countries in their own national currencies, are a threat to dollar’s dominance as it reduces the need for dollar in trade among themselves – in effect, de-dollarization.

The second factor as a threat to the dollar’s dominance is the recently passed Big Beautiful Bill which Donald Trump has signed into law.

The bill not only makes the life of US citizens miserable – cuts to Medicaid, SNAP benefits, education etc., it also explodes the budget deficit by 4 trillion, which means that the US will be paying more than 1 trillion just as the interest payment – a red flag for the foreign investors.

In order to attract foreign investors, the Federal Reserve would have to offer higher interest on US treasuries. The increase in the interest rates would affect everything – from mortgage rates to, corporate profits etc..

Here are the lowlights of the bill:

Ø   Major cuts to social safety net that includes Medicaid. As congressional budget office estimates, approximately 1.8 million people will lose access to health benefit, a major crisis.

Ø   Cutting SNAP (supplemental assistance food program), a critical food program that helped nearly 41 million people with food assistance. Inability to feed the family is bound to increase crime and domestic violence.

Ø   Removed tax subsidies for clean energy project that jeopardized thousands of jobs and endangered billions of dollars of investment

Ø   Higher energy costs for families

Ø   Endangered environment by weakening fuel efficiency standards.

Ø   Increased funding for ICE.

Ø   AND, the biggest one – blow up the budget deficit by 4 trillion, increasing the debt to an unmanageable level.

The third factor that poses the risk to the dollar’s dominance is the chaotic Trade Wars.

The on-again, off-again tariffs are causing anxiety among the businesspeople, the result being a reduction in economic activity. The tariff is nothing but a tax which is ultimately paid by consumers by way of higher prices. This is going to make many people frugal, making them put-off purchases.

The depressing demand would result in job losses and, consequently, affect the GDP as well.

The lackluster GDP is, then, a signal to investors that it is time to look for some other greener pastures and that pasture is being provided by BRICS grouping.

With a population base of approx. 34.45 billion people, highly skilled workforce, technological powerhouses and richness of natural resources, the growth potential for BRICS grouping of countries is tremendous.

Consider these statistics: With GDP higher than that of G7 Counters – 44 % and 4.45 billion population, the outlook is tempting.

Even though the factor of BRICS grouping and continued de-dollarization is a fait accompli, the hard landing can still be turned into a soft one, but only if cooler, rational and saner heads prevail, but there is a dearth of these virtues in Washington, DC.

All these three factors combined have put the king dollar on the slide to its eventual dethroning as the world reserve currency,

But there is one factor that can give it a hypersonic boost.

And, that factor – fourth factor - is “Epstein files”.

It all started off with Elon Musk tweeting about Donald Trump being in the Epstein files.  With the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ cutting out subsidies for EV vehicles, a furious Musk, who was already out of government, fought tooth and nail to prevent its passage.

Having failed in the fight, an enraged Musk fired the tweet which set the course of events on an uncontrollable path.

The matter would have simply faded from the public consciousness when Elon Musk backtracked on his tweet and made good with Donald trump. The issue was slowly fading from public consciousness as other events occupied the news cycle.

But it was AG Pam Bondi, who, out of nowhere, decided to bring the issue of Epstein files to the forefront when she announced that there is no Epstein list.

Why she dredged up the Epstein files, is a mystery. Just speculating – Might it have to do something with Nobel Prize as a clean character is needed.

This assertion not only threw up lot of questions regarding Epstein’s suicide in jail and Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction in a sex trafficking trial, but it also enraged the MAGA crowd, who for years were fed the notion of there being Epstein’s black book which has the list of all the rich and powerful pedophiles.

Trump’s election had given MAGA crowd high hopes of the Epstein list finally being made public, but those hopes were dashed with Pam Bondi’s assertion of there being no Epstein list.

Pam Bondi’s assertion was seen as an attempt to coverup the scandal – a way to protect the rich and powerful, a deep state tactic that they had decried for years.

With MAGA crowd openly quitting the movement, burning their hats and people like Alex Jones, Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson etc., criticizing Donald and asking for the release of Epstein files, the pressure has begun to get to Donald Trump.

Trump cannot afford to lose his base, but he also cannot make all the Epstein evidence public as demanded by everyone including congress members, as making the evidence public would simply be the end of Trump’s political career.

With the bombshell revelation in the Wall Street Journal of a bawdy letter from Trump to Epstein on Epstein’s 50th birthday, the fire lit by Pam Bondi has now become a raging inferno about to consume the Trump presidency and along with that the republican party, who cannot afford to lose the MAGA base which is their ticket to power.

Donald has thrown the kitchen sink to distract the American people from the Epstein scandal.

He has:

• ·                Threatened BRICs with 100% tariff if they move away from dollars.
• ·                Threatened 500% tariff on India and China if they continue to buy oil and gas from Russia.
• ·                In a silly tweet, he crowed that he has demanded that Coca-Cola use cane sugar in its drinks
• ·                He has imposed 25% tariff on Japan – America’s closest ally in the pacific.
• ·                Sent idiotic letters to countries informing them about imposing tariffs if they don’t negotiate a trade deal within the unilateral deadline set by him.
• ·                Imposed 50% tariff on Brazil and demanded that Brazil drop the prosecution of its former president, Jair Bolsonaro, who has been accused of plotting a coup to reverse his election loss – a lot like January 6 storming of the Capitol Hill by Trump supporters.
• ·       Revoked visa of Brazilian Supreme Court judge for daring to preside over Bolsonaro’s trial.
• ·                Posted crazy video on his pathetic “Truth Social” platform about putting Obama in prison.
• ·                And, has mulled about replacing the Fed Chair Jerome Powell with a pliant one who will reduce the interest rates, which Jerome Powell has refused to do in the face of rising inflation.

The list of daily outrages just keeps on growing as Donald needs something to distract from the raging Epstein files scandal – not that anything is working. On the contrary, the focus on Epstein scandal is becoming stronger as American public demands to know who exactly is featured in the list, so that they can be prosecuted for crimes against children.

Rumor on the internet is that the bombshell revelation by Wall Street Journal is just the tip of the iceberg – there is more yet to come.

With August 1 deadline fast approaching, it is difficult to imagine that the 90-day pause will be extended further as it would not only take the issue of tariffs off the table but would also reinforce Trump’s reputation as “President TACO”.

And, Donald Trump simply cannot afford that.

With Trump imposing tariffs on countries, the other countries are also bound to react and impose reciprocal tariffs on US products making them more expensive to import.

The global community will also strike deals with other countries side-stepping the US completely. This will have massive effect on the US economy, driving it into recession by the end of year.

Under such circumstances, The BRICS grouping will begin to look more and more attractive to foreign investors. That will be a death-knell for dollar-based US assets.

The US treasury guarantees that all its debt obligations will be fulfilled by the “full faith and credit of the United States government” - means that the U.S. Treasury guarantees the repayment of a debt, using its taxing and borrowing authority if necessary.

Given the exploding budget deficit along with rising interest costs and credit rating agencies knocking US credit rating a notch down from its perfect triple AAA credit, the investors have begun to lose faith in the US assets and are looking for some other greener pasture like BRICS.

If the US defaults on its debt obligations, that would be nothing short of a catastrophic bankruptcy with dollar losing its role as reserve currency.

No wonder Donald is hyper-ventilating about BRICS and tariffs but seems unwilling to tackle these issues as the Epstein scandal continues to grow bigger and bigger.

With Epstein’s ghost breathing down his neck, Donald would rather let the three factors blow up into raging controversies just to distract the news cycles from the Epstein scandal as the revelations would be akin to a nuke going off.

All the three factors mentioned above – The BRICS, reversing some of the disastrous provisions of the Big Beautiful Bill and the Trade Wars – can be handled skillfully, but skills are awfully missing in the Trump administration.

An oft-cited quote of Sun-Tzu, a Chinese military strategist, comes to mind: “A vain man will burn down the country to rule over the ashes”.

The quote fits Donald to a tee.

Unfortunately, it seems, the King Dollar is going be a casualty – a collateral damage of “The Epstein Files”.

(PS: At the time of writing this article, Wall Street Journal now has dropped the biggest story that Department of Justice told Trump in May about his name being all over the Epstein files.

This is an atomic level story. How this plays out – whether Trump resigns or forced out – is going to be quite interesting. If he resigns, he faces criminal prosecution. And if he stays, the country will be paralyzed.

Interesting turn of events, indeed.)

ICC Beclowns itself!

 

- 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!