Tom Cotton and Lindsey Graham having collective aneurysm over international law – despite Graham praising warrant for Putin and urging world govts to support it
Right-wing US senate racists Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton have reacted with apoplexy at the International Criminal Court (ICC) daring to want to hold Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant to account for their mass slaughter and starvation of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
Graham loved the ICC when it issued a warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin and urged the governments of the world to support the court by arresting Putin if they could:
But Graham decided the ICC is the ‘corrupt criminal court’ and a ‘dangerous joke’ when it issued arrest warrants for war criminals Netanyahu and Gallant:
He also said the US will sanction any country that dares obey international law:
Dummy out of pram time in a fashion that would be revealing were it not already obvious what a danger Graham is. He went on to threaten ‘consequences from the United States’ if any of the 124 nations legally obliged to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant if they can get their hands on them dared to actually do it:
If you aid and abet the ICC after their action against the State of Israel, you can expect consequences from the United States
Fellow Senate right-winger Tom Cotton, who hounded a Singaporean CEO about his supposed Chinese communist links because he thought he must be Chines, was even more explicit – threatening to invade The Hague, the home of the ICC and its sister court the International Court of Justice:
Petulant, arrogant babies armed with a huge military and with nuclear weapons. The fall of their empire is long overdue.
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Ah, bless!
Don’t you just love the toddlers of the exceptionalist Rules Based International Order who set themselves up against International Law.
The late Smedley Butler provided arguably the most graphic take on the US Mafia State:
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
― Smedley D. Butler, War Is a Racket
If both Putin and Netanyahu end up behind bars in The Hague they’ll be able to rekindle their friendship.
https://skwawkbox.org/2024/11/20/video-palestinian-ambassadors-speech-after-us-vetoes-ceasefire-must-be-seen/#comment-261720
Have you actually got a coherent evidence based argument based on reality, Billy?
Sorry for laughing WAHHH HAHAHA LOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The serious part is however whilst the Palestinians will continue to suffer, fruit loops like this cause antisemitism..
Chey Anderson in The New Left Review (Nov 23) argues the US Neo-Cons want a Polish/Ukraine corridor to The Caucuses and the riches beyond so tragically Ukrainians are being slaughtered for US profits. And the Western political lightweights jump to the US tune.
And the Left are consistent, WE criticised Putin over Chechnya but shortly after that Blair rushed to Moscow to congratulate him on becoming President and gave him a state visit to the UK; why there’s Cherie Blair kissing P on both cheeks outside no 10 & there’s P in a gold carriage with The Queen on his way to a state banquet at Buckingham Palace with MPs of all parties fighting to get in!
Mr P was seen as a friend of the West then (he allowed them to use Russian bases in Afghanistan) and some argue he even asked if Russia could join NATO but the US said no.
And now the Occupation Force in Palestine + the US & West want Palestine’s land, gas, oil + a new canal in the Levant so tragically Palestinians are being slaughtered for profits too – so it’s the same old commonality of PROFITS.
So 2 Ceasefires Now.
Oh and this is Engels in 1892 on the USA quoted in a good piece by Anton Jäger in the latest NLR: “We find here two great gangs of political speculators, who alternatively take possession of state power and exploit it by the most corrupt means and for the most corrupt ends.”
Oh for the return of political giants.
Hope ICJ warrants coming to US Leaders & recent leaders + EC Leaders & UK leaders & recent leaders soon.
Putin warned the United States about 9/11.
However, without 9/11 The United States would not have been able to invade Afghanistan and Iraq and so the attack was allowed to proceed.
There is no doubt that the Bush administration was complicit in 9/11 if you look carefully at the evidence.
Theres no doubt israel was too. Arrest warrants still stsnd for dominik suter as he fled to the US after Urban moving systems was raided. Then theres the small question of mossad in the towers surrounded by boxes and boxes of BB18 fuses.
The Hague Invasion Act is a real thing but Cotton is probably too stupid to realise it’s not as though the US armed forces are literally going to invade The Netherlands. It’s a metaphor for a missile strike.
As I keep saying.
‘murrica is responsible for 95% of everything that’s wrong with the planet.
With beauts like those two as a reflection of their nation, it’s really not hard to see why.
The most striking similarity between murrica and israel, for me, is they both consist of the exiled and unwanted of Europe, and in both instances have gone on to persecute, rob and exterminate the indigenous populations in their adopted nations. All while maintaining an attitude of self-righteousness, entitlement and racial supremacy.
The first line of The Chinese classic book: ‘The Romance of the Three Kingdoms’ is: “The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been”.
Take note, murrica (and israel). The Chinese nation has been going for thousands of years. Combined, you still haven’t been around as long as the Han dynasty alone, lasted.
The way you’re both going, you might not.
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson……
https://sonar21.com/icc-sends-a-message-to-netanyahu-but-us-insists-it-wont-be-delivered/
……cogently sums up the situation:
“In a legitimate international rules-based order, all nations would be treated equally. Unfortunately, we do not live in that world. The US makes the rules and the rest of the world is expected to fall in line or suffer the consequences for disobeying. The ICC discredited itself more than a year ago when it accused Vladimir Putin of child trafficking. These charges were brought as part of a broader US-led campaign to isolate and punish Russia. By allowing itself to be used as a political pawn, the ICC’s credibility was destroyed. Although the indictment and issuing of arrest warrants for Bibi Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant are based on actual crimes, the odds that either man will ever be brought before the ICC to stand trial are remote.
The hysterical reaction in the United States to the ICC action, with Senators Tom Cotton and Lindsey Graham threatening to punish any country that tried to enforce the arrest warrants, reinforced the reality that the United States political class are hostages to Israel. From this moment going forward, any other action by the ICC against someone from a country where the US wants a leader punished, will likely be ignored. Uncle Sam has zero credibility in lecturing other countries on human rights when it is so cavalier in refusing to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence of Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinians.”
Those half wits who continually bang on about the manufactured hobgoblins designated as The Official Enemy (TOE) with no substantive credible evidence other than their own prejudices as though this is a game of football rather than real life should be careful what they wish for.
The official hobgoblin is viewed as being too patient, soft and indulgent in the face of a very public threat from the outlaw oligarchy of the Collective Worst by a significant section of the populace in Russia. Removing the “Putin”, for example, will solve nothing and actually make matters worse. If anyone else was running the show the West would by now be a steaming pile of rubble. Like the Yuzhmash missile plant in Dnipro
However, that is the least of our problems in regard to this matter.
Too many people have a tendency to follow the example set by those at the top of the hierarchical structure.
In a culture awash with a plethora of daily examples of those who self-define themselves as our betters, picking and choosing when, where and if rules, laws and due process apply and don’t apply – from the drumhead style trials of a Labour Party Discipline process now, since July, transferred to the Governance of the Country where allegations are sufficient to determine automatic guilt to the open threats of the “Rules Based International Order” to invade The Hague and punish countries for complying with an arrest warrant to the outlawing of criticisms of The Official Narrative – the rule of law is already seriously compromised and fraying at the edges if not starting to come apart.
As the system starts to unravel – as it already is across the West the rule of law – especially equality under the rule of law – is the only thing preventing anarchy.
As noted elsewhere: “Europe’s manufacturing powerhouse, Germany, is in crisis. President Biden’s ecocidal sabotage of NordStream 1, with the abject acceptance if not full-on collaboration of Europe’s comprador leaders, robbed it of the cheap energy which kept it competitive. As Europeans pay through the nose to stay warm and put food on the table – or in the case of a burgeoning precariat see their children shiver and go hungry 2 – firms go under or relocate in the USA. Since Europe has little to trade and long ago ceased to feed itself, while sunset on Western supremacy erodes its ability to extract global rents from finance capital, its prospects seem bleak.* Indeed, the one thing Washington can rightly claim as an unalloyed gain of its backfired war against Russia is a demotion of Europe’s standing in the USA from junior partner to semi-colony.
2. Those who think they can avoid the fate of their urban compatriots by cultivating land in the sticks show remarkable faith in the rule of law. A fortnight of food scarcity will send bands of city dwellers deep into the countryside; hitherto law abiding folk now tooled up with kitchen knives and pick handles.
Call me alarmist, but at the pinnacle of my nightmares is the collapse – post WW3, post environmental catastrophe or post economic betrayal by hubristic dim-wits – of the rule of law. We do so take it for granted.”
– Phil Roddis: Steel City Scribbler
* Which raises the pertinent question as to why would Russia, as constantly proclaimed by the proven liars and frauds of Western elites, want to waste its time and effort invading and taking over such a waste of space US colony with nothing to offer its own populace? Europe, including the UK, has nothing they want or need. They are done with us.
Those who openly cheer on – as though they were on the football terraces – the selective use of the rule of law on the basis of an ethnic and racial exceptionalism are doing their neighbours no favours. Especially when they are, like armchair WW1 Generals, (allegedly) thousands of miles behind the front lines.