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They are right, though, aren’t they? We came up with these regulations and international agreements for a reason.

If they ignore war crimes, their authority loses meaning, but if they pass judgment that we know is going to be completely ignored, their authority also loses meaning. Unless the powers that be decide to honor their word, it’s all pointless. What’s next?

They ignore war crimes plenty when it comes to Russia, Turkey, etc. According to UN Israel is the worst country there is, as over half of the resolutions are against Israel.

Russian leadership was issued warrants some time ago.

The ICC also issued arrest warrants for Putin and Lvova-Belova last year, and for Sokolov, Kobylash, Shoigu and Gerasimov earlier this year.

They did, on account of child trafficking, not waging a war.

It is not a war crime to wage war. Besides that Viktor Sokolov, Sergey Kobylash, Sergei Shoigu, and Valery Gerasimov have all been served warrants not related to the large scale child abductions, but targeting of civilians. Also the child trafficking is still war related.

Please inform yourself better, so you don't spread obvious false claims in the future.

>Please inform yourself better, so you don't spread obvious false claims in the future.

I am well informed, thank you.

UN consistently downplays Russian crimes, secretary-general smiles and laughs with worlds bloodiest dictators while the west is afraid to as much as lift a finger to put this terror to a stop.

This ICC ruling is just the latest in a series of hypocritical accusations against Israel and Ukraine.

The west is afraid to as much as lift a finger to put this terror to a stop.

This is pure caricature, with no connection to reality.

It's difficult to discuss this with you, as firstly you're confusing the UN and the ICC, and secondly you're not providing much in the way of concrete examples.

It was indeed widely seen as a poor decision when Antonio Guterres visited Putin. However, the UN has consistently taken the stance that Putin has violated international charters and committed war crimes, e.g. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/10/un-commissio...

These warrants aren’t for waging war either. They are for crimes against humanity, including hindering aid from reaching civilians, and for targeting hospitals.

For the 2023 warrants, that was the clearest path they had towards proving genocidal intent. Putin and Lvova-Belova both made clear statements about their intent to traffick children from Ukraine to Russia.

The 2024 warrants were for attacking civilian objects and crimes against humanity.

This feels like the end of the league of nations.

Measures like this seem pretty toothless, so I'm not sure what impact you're expecting

It isn't scary at all. I for one, would much prefer to live in a world where war crimes and acts of genocide are appropriately called out. The fact this hasn't come sooner is the scary thing.

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