Arresting Putin – Or
Arresting All-Out Western Public Revolt?
By Finian Cunningham
March 20, 2023:
Information Clearing House
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-Western propaganda outlets (also
known as “news media”) are suddenly full of
reports that The Hague-based International
Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for
Russian President Vladimir Putin. The
over-the-top coverage (that is, orchestration)
is intended to give the ridiculous legal ploy an
impression of gravitas and significance when in
reality the so-called arrest warrant is
meaningless and oozes with kitsch politicized
theater.
Along with Putin, the Russian Children’s
Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova is also
named as a wanted person to face “war crimes”
prosecution. The alleged crimes are in
connection with the supposed deportation of
children to Russia during Russia’s special
military operation in Ukraine conducted since
February 2022.
The basis for the ICC move is as flimsy as an
errant weather balloon. It is also an audacious
distortion of reality. Russia has evacuated
thousands of civilians, including children, from
the regions formerly of eastern Ukraine that are
now part of the Russian Federation for the
precise reason of taking them out of harm’s way
from the NATO-backed Nazi regime in Kiev whose
forces have been indiscriminately shelling the
Donbass and other areas.Ukraine
If anyone should be facing prosecution for
war crimes it is Ukrainian President Vladimir
Zelensky and his Nazi-adulating commanders, as
well as their sponsors: American, European, and
NATO leaders.
The Kiev regime has been shelling the Donbass
for nine years since the CIA coup brought to
power this fascist junta. NATO trained the Azov
Battalion and other Waffen SS-style
paramilitaries which are firing U.S.-supplied
HIMARS rockets with the help of American,
British, French, German, Canadian, and Polish
mercenaries. Russia intervened in Ukraine last
year to put an end to the genocide that
Washington and Europe along with their Western
media are complicit in. Not a word of this is
reported in so-called bastions of journalism,
the New York Times and BBC. They’re too busy
selling propaganda about the ICC and Russia.
Is this the best case that the ICC and its
Western handlers can really find against Russia?
Kidnapping children? What about all the other
allegations about Russia shelling apartment
blocks and civilians? If there were any truth to
these widely peddled claims in Western media
then why haven’t those allegations been cited
for prosecution? They haven’t because there is
so little evidence. In fact, the NATO-backed
Kiev regime is guilty of using apartment blocks
and civilian human shields. Hence, the fallback
on an emotively appealing issue of alleged child
kidnapping. The cringe-worthy sense alone tells
you it is a fit-up.
But the tenuousness of it all only makes the
Western claims and the ICC look even more absurd
than they already do.
In any case, the ICC has no jurisdiction over
Russia, so the arrest warrants are dead letters.
They’re not meant to be taken seriously anyway.
This is all political theater aimed at smearing
Moscow.
Neither has the court jurisdiction over the
United States. Just as well, it might be said,
because if there were any genuine principles of
justice, U.S. President Joe Biden should be in
the dock facing multiple war crime charges in
connection with America’s illegal wars in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and Yemen among other
countries.
On more recent crimes, Biden and his NATO
crime partners should be in dock over the
blowing up of the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
Or for sponsoring and weaponizing the Israeli
regime’s renewed war crimes against
Palestinians.
Or for persecuting and torturing publisher
Julian Assange because he dared to reveal the
truth about American and British war crimes.
The astounding hypocrisy and double standards
are another proof – if such proof were needed –
that the latest ICC maneuver against Russia is a
cheap political stunt to bolster badly needed
authority for the United States and its Western
minions.
This week, as American and British leaders
hail the ICC indictments on Russia, also marks
the 20th anniversary of the U.S.-led war in
Iraq. A war that killed as many as one million
civilians and destroyed a nation, based on
outright fabricated lies, lies that Biden as a
then-senator helped to promote. The main
architects of those crimes, George W Bush and
Tony Blair have never been mentioned even in
passing by lawyers at the ICC. Why is that?
Because the ICC is a Kangaroo Court and a
political plaything that Western imperialism
uses to pursue political enemies.
Meanwhile, in other news…
We have more reports confirming previous
allegations of Joe Biden and his family having
received illegal payments worth millions of
dollars from Chinese businesses. Biden and his
drug-addict son Hunter (who was banging the
widow of his dead brother) are up to their eyes
in corruption from shady wheeling and dealing
using “the big guy’s” political office as
collateral. The same scam routine was used in
Biden’s unofficial business dealings with
Ukraine after the CIA coup in 2014.
Meanwhile, the past week has seen the U.S.
banking system teetering on another historic
collapse following the implosion of indebted
Silicon Valley Bank and others. To prop up the
coming financial avalanche across the entire
financial sector, the Biden administration is
once again throwing hundreds of billions of
taxpayers’ money to bail out Wall Street.
Meanwhile, in the U.S. and across Europe
millions of workers are taking to the streets in
unprecedented strikes and protests against
corrupt capitalist regimes. The revolutionary
conditions are at boiling point in France where
the elitist President Emmanuel Macron (a Louis
the XVI figure if ever there was one) is ramming
through public spending cuts by decree,
deliberately bypassing the parliamentary process
(well, it is a sham anyway). But all across
Europe and the United States the public mood is
becoming increasingly intolerant and
contemptuous of so-called governments that are
spending hundreds of billions on sponsoring an
insane proxy war in Ukraine against
nuclear-powered Russia while at the same time,
these same Western elite rulers are demanding
more economic austerity on the suffering public.
This is while inequality, deprivation,
homelessness, hunger, and poverty are crushing
societies.
Meanwhile, we get supposedly upbeat Western
media reports this week that the U.S.-led NATO
axis is now moving to send warplanes to the Kiev
regime on top of previous moves to supply
Leopard, Abrams, Leclerc, and Challenger battle
tanks – craziness that will lead to all-out war
with Russia. The dissonance among Western elites
and their media echo chambers is so gulf-like it
is courting revolutionary anger, à la
Marie-Antoinette, and her reputed
let-them-eat-cakes remark.
The charge list goes on of daily mounting
anger and disgust over the collapse of the
corrupt Western racket otherwise called Western
capitalist democracy, otherwise known as the
dictatorship of billionaires and warmongers.
Biden, Macron, von der Leyen, Stoltenberg,
Trudeau, Sunak, Scholz & Co (fill in your
clown’s name here) aren’t actually concerned
about arresting Putin. They are shitting
themselves to arrest the mounting public revolt
against the Western capitalist clown show.
Finian Cunningham
has written extensively on international
affairs, with articles published in several
languages. He is a Master’s graduate in
Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a
scientific editor for the Royal Society of
Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a
career in newspaper journalism. He is also a
musician and songwriter. For nearly 20 years, he
worked as an editor and writer in major news
media organisations, including The Mirror, Irish
Times and Independent.
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