In the latest high-level US visit to Ukraine, Attorney General Merrick Garland made an appearance in the country on Tuesday and pledged US support for investigating alleged Russian war crimes.
Garland met with Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova near Lviv and announced the formation of a team meant to help Ukraine with criminal prosecution, evidence collection, and forensics.
“There is no hiding place for war criminals. The US Justice Department will pursue every avenue of accountability for those who commit war crimes and other atrocities in Ukraine,” Garland said.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened an investigation into alleged Russian war crimes and has sent a team of investigators to Ukraine. The US has pledged to help international efforts, although Washington is not a party to the ICC and has tried to obstruct the court’s investigation of war crimes allegedly committed by the US and its allies.
The Trump administration sanctioned ICC officials for investigating the US war in Afghanistan. The measures were reversed by the Biden administration, but Biden officials made clear they still opposed the investigation as well as the ICC’s probe into Israel’s actions in the West Bank and Gaza.
“We continue to disagree strongly with the ICC’s actions relating to the Afghanistan and Palestinian situations,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement when the ICC sanctions were lifted.
“There is no hiding place for war criminals. The US Justice Department will pursue every avenue of accountability for those who commit war crimes and other atrocities in Ukraine,” Garland said.
But you can hide out in Texas if you commit them in Iraq.
Bingo! Also in Arkansas.
True. I only mentioned Texas since Bush recently openly admitted to them.
And Martha’s Vinyard.
A neutral country is obliged to investigate the war crimes of all belligerents.
Yes, but in the real world it’s the ‘winner’.
So you are saying that the US is neutral? Get real man. The Ukraine is in Russia officially because they never declared their border.
The Ukrainian and Russian regimes agreed on Ukraine’s border in the 1997 Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership.
“Investigation” like the Syria chemical deal?? While they are at it, why don’t they investigate the incineration by the NAZIs of Russian-speaking separatists in 2014??
What a joke! We are heading for American version of Victorian times. Upper 1% living it up, while majority pauperized beyond our darkest dreams. And just like in good old Victorian times, powerless would remain powerless. Middle classes, what is left eill remain devoted to their aristocracy in Democrstic or Republican party. Just as the British empowerished “middling sort” remained loyal to their aristocracy.
So just as Brittain was gambling its last debt-ridden power in Crimean war in 19the century, we are recreating our own version of the same. Britain sustsined massive losses, and its Bourbon allies departed history for good. It waa a classical Phyrric victory. Declare victory, sign victorious paper and go home to livk your wounds. Britain then just like US today still have several cards to play in Europe.
But will not recover economy. Yes, some banking slight of band will still work its magic to divert the eyes of public, but not for long. Without any desire to revive production in US — and doubling down on cufrent policy of global hegemony — i.e. to make China be our factory, and Russia supplier of raw materials, energy and food.
Keeping status quo,
Judging the world.
Nothing lasts for ever. Except Britain’s abolity to latch on to another power to maintain its relevance. Today US. tommorow, who knows?
I blame anyone that voted for Biden and the rest of the stupid sheeple that won’t wake their ass up and smell the shit from the left.
The Russians are clearly committing war crimes in Ukraine as are the Ukainians themselves. The US by trying to be part of the process only delegitimizes it. Someone needs to tell them to shutup and just go away.
No one wants to hear chirping hypocrites.
Kabuki theater. Unless the alleged Russian and Allied “war criminals” are in the custody of the Ukrainian authorities, the ICC has no way of even arresting, much less prosecuting, them. And if they are in Ukrainian custody, chances are that, as happened already, the Ukraine would probably rather prosecute these alleged criminals in their own, kangaroo courts, than before the ICC. And, in fairness, the purpose of the ICC is not to replace national courts, but to supplement them, In theory, there is no reason why the Ukraine cannot prosecute the supposed war criminals that it has in its custody in its own courts. Calling in the ICC, to me, just smacks of grandstanding. The USA, and its varous governmental and non governmental lackeys, and, indeed, the ICC itself, throwing their two cents in and “helping” the Ukrainians means less than nothing. Moreover, the Ukrainians, and their so called “courts,” don’t really care about “evidence” or “forensics” and the like. These are show trials for internal and Western propaganda, not actual searches for the truth.
The ICC does not make arrests:
“As a judicial institution, the ICC does not have its own police force or enforcement body; thus, it relies on cooperation with countries worldwide for support, particularly for making arrests, transferring arrested persons to the ICC detention centre in The Hague, freezing suspects’ assets, and enforcing sentences.”
The ICC is not intended to replace national courts:
“The ICC is intended to complement, not to replace, national criminal systems; it prosecutes cases only when States do not are unwilling or unable to do so genuinely.”
https://www.icc-cpi.int/about/how-the-court-works#:~:text=After%20gathering%20evidence%20and%20identifying,arrest%20warrant%20may%20be%20issued).
Russia is fighting Nazis in Ukraine and trust me Ukraine nazis won’t prosecute dick!
They are doing it already.
Garland needs to deal with the criminals in DC, mainly the Biden admin. top to bottom including the DOJ.