Greetings from the Kharkiv girl!
I want to talk today about the arrest warrant for the President of Russia issued by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which Joe Biden suddenly for some reason called justified. For me, this came as a surprise. If someone is not aware, the United States does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC), as well as Russia, China, India, Israel and Iran.
It was the United States that earned a reputation of the most ardent enemy of the ICC.
They initially signed the Rome Statute, but the Bill Clinton administration immediately warned that Washington was not going to ratify this document until it is fully aware in all details of the court’s activities.
During the presidency of George W. Bush, the United States withdrew its signature and refused to participate in the ICC, explaining this decision by protecting its servicemen, and in general the national interests and sovereignty of the United States. Therefore, it is strange that a country that does not perceive the jurisdiction of the ICC suddenly says that the warrant is justified.
By the way, in Ukraine, the Rome Statute has not been ratified either, so the actions of the ICC are initially illegal.
Now we go on.
The arrest warrant has been issued on suspicion of a war crime: the illegal deportation of children from the occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia. Like, international law can regard this as genocide.
So, I want to remind you of the American operation “Babylift”. The United States, after its defeat in the Vietnam War, kidnapped thousands of Vietnamese children and sent them to the United States, Canada, France, West Germany and Australia. Many children were stolen and removed without any permission of their parents. In total, more than 2.5 thousand children were taken out of the country.
The children were transported on planes, in boxes fastened by seat belts. Together with the children there were a bunch of boxes with documents of babies, but no one knew which document belonged to which child. One such flight ended in a plane crash that claimed lives of 155 people, including 78 children.
Subsequently, many Vietnamese parents tried to find their children, whom the United States simply stole, and even sued the US government. Only about twelve children were reunited with their parents.
Now I have questions: Why is this not remembered in Western society? Why is everyone silent about this? Why the US is not responsible for that? It wasn’t genocide? Or you will say again: this is different!
Don’t you think that where the US is involved there is too much “this is different” and double standards. Eh?
