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Will Putin Be Prosecuted for Crime of Aggression in Ukraine?

They don’t want to deal with the crime of aggression because they know that if it’s used against Russia, a permanent member of the Security Council, today, it might be used against them tomorrow,” said Sands. “The big elephant in the room in Ukraine is Iraq, which was also a manifestly illegal war and produced a very different response in Britain and in the United States.”

Source: Will Putin Be Prosecuted for Crime of Aggression in Ukraine?

  From US Invasion in Iraq to Russia’s Assault on Ukraine, We Need a Global Standard for War Crimes | Amy Goodman

So-called “rules of engagement” are regularly ignored in the all-consuming violence and barbarism of war. U.S. and coalition troops were guilty of this in Afghanistan, as documented by Manning’s disclosures to Wikileaks and often corroborated by journalists and human rights investigators. Few if any of those who committed atrocities will ever be held accountable.”Unfortunately, the U.S. would not allow the International Criminal Court to even investigate potential U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan, and there were many of them,” Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the peace group CodePink, said this week on the Democracy Now! news hour, shortly after returning from a U.S. women’s delegation to Afghanistan. “The U.S. is not even a party to the International Criminal Court. It would be nice to have a judgment against those who took us into this war in Afghanistan.”

Source: Opinion | From US Invasion in Iraq to Russia’s Assault on Ukraine, We Need a Global Standard for War Crimes | Amy Goodman

Mutiny on the Kyiv 

The initial Russian invasion plan for Ukraine was to duplicate the 2003 American attack on Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, both because that assault quickly decapitated the local government and because the Kremlin was eager to send the Americans the message that two powers can play the great games that lead to regime change.

Source: Mutiny on the Kyiv – CounterPunch.org