All That Matters Is Removing Putin and Trump from Power
Don’t let the newsporn cycle distract from the mission
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We don’t need more evidence. The Putin and Trump regimes have committed crimes against humanity. We don’t need more dirty pictures and a bigger body count.
For the safety of the remaining free world, they need to be removed from power by any memes/means necessary.
As I keep reminding you, why do you think Trump is threatening the International Criminal Court, attempting to strong-arm it into not investigating him and his top officials? Because he and his collaborators are guilty.
Governments of Thieves
As my friend Patrick Goldstone said yesterday, Russia and the US comprise governments of thieves.
Trump and Putin may have rigged their playing fields to give them legal immunity, but WE do not have to give them immunity.
In my report on The Last Defence, Slavenka Drakulić, the Croatian journalist and author of They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague said: “The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugloslova’s immensely important historical contribution was primarily to bring out truth about wars. Without trials we would not have proof that massacre/genocide in Srebrenica even happened.”
“ICC is the last defence of international law… Trump’s threat is a very real one,” she said.
Also in that report, Vesna Pusić, who served as First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the cabinet of Zoran Milanović in Croatia, told me: “US president Trump has already shown his antipathy towards the ICC some time ago, when he introduced the first batch of sanctions against the Court and its officials. Now he has become even more aggressive.”
She said the fact that shelling boats, killing people and hijacking tankers off the coast of South America might eventually prove to be criminal acts upon which the ICC would have to take some action, where Trump would be directly affected.
As I remind you each week, former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is currently in The Hague awaiting trial for crimes against humanity for dozens of murders in his so-called war on drugs, which Trump himself championed and which parallel Trump’s extrajudicial murders in Venezuela.
As I wrote in Byline column, in a transcript from a 2017 phone call, Trump applauded Duterte’s murderous rampage.
“I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem,” Trump told Duterte, according to the transcript.
In addition to ICC judges issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli defense chief Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leader Ibrahim al-Masri last November for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Gaza conflict, the ICC previously issued arrest warrants for Putin and five other Russian officials over their war crimes in Ukraine, including illegally deporting children.
War Crimes Tribunal for the World
The ICC is the permanent war crimes tribunal for the world, with 125 member states — excluding China, Russia and the US — but including the whole of the EU. The precursor to the ICC were the Nuremberg Trials — military tribunals following World War II held to prosecute Nazi war criminals. They directly inspired the creation of the ICC in 2002, which prosecutes individuals for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and aggression.
According to the ICC’s mandate, sitting heads of state can be prosecuted, as well as individuals for crimes they commit or crimes committed by nationals under their command.
Therefore, accountability is no longer unthinkable.
Why wait? If sitting heads of state can be prosecuted for war crimes, why enable more crimes by waiting?
We all become enablers of future crimes if we don’t do everything in our power to push remaining democratic world leaders to ensure an international tribunal for crimes these dictators have already committed.
The world won’t miraculously start singing kumbaya once they are removed from the board — the technofascists will also have to be disempowered — but they are uniquely criminal and malignantly sociopathic.
If we have any chance to turn things around, we must get Putin and Trump out of power.
Scandal Parade
As Dave Troy wrote today:
A Russian defector by the name of Viktor Suvorov has suggested that Russia may unleash destabilizing information prior to an escalation. In his words:
“Russia will launch a scandal parade. Dirt will be invented, created or dug up on USA’s leaders & friends abroad. Nations would distrust their leaders.”
The scandal parade is meant to distract and destabilize.
We have a focused mission: get these monsters out of power.
Over and over again in history, dictators seemed all powerful.
Until they’re not.
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