At least Zelensky has an excuse, his political career is just five years old.
Multiply by ten that's Joe Biden’s career for you. 50 years in politics but all that experience has mattered little. Biden is still stumbling his way through this crisis. Wednesday was another example, reporters asked him a simple question, a “yes or no” question “do you think Vladimir Putin is a war criminal?”
He said “NO” and then came back to the same journalist to say “Vladimir Putin is a war criminal”. how decisive is that? exactly what you want from a wartime leader? did somebody nudge Biden to change his position? did he not hear the question properly? or is this another classic Biden faux pas?
either way the White House was forced to clean up they say Biden was speaking from his heart “the president's remarks speak for themselves, he was speaking from his heart and speaking from what he's seen on television which is barbaric actions by a brutal dictator through his invasion of a foreign country”

Let's address the basics first, who decides whether someone is a War Criminal. the United Nations has a court for that it's called the ICC, the international criminal court. it's based in The Hague. This court can label someone a war criminal.
Question number 1: What constitutes a war crime
There is no fixed list but most of the offenses are drawn from the Geneva convention and i'll list some of them out for you:
Targeting civilians
Targeting non-military assets
Using human shields
Taking hostages
Using banned weapons
All of these are war crimes, now looking at that list, russia is a prime candidate, they have targeted hospital schools and shelters, residential complexes have been bombed. Technically these are war crimes.

question number 2: is Putin a war criminal?
Vladimir Putin is the president of russia which also makes him commander-in-chief of the russian armed forces so he does share responsibility perhaps he ordered these illegal strikes or at the very least he knew about them so the allegation is certainly warranted

question number 3: Can Putin be prosecuted?
Tribunals have prosecuted leaders before like the nuremberg trials or the tokyo trials but russia does not recognize the icc's jurisdiction so Putin is not going to be prosecuted nor will he send his generals to the stand so these allegations are mostly symbolic and america should know that.

On Tuesday the u.s senate passed a resolution against Putin. it says that Putin is a war criminal and that the ICC must immediately probe his actions in Ukraine. How brave of the senators except america itself does not recognize The Hague, in fact they have gone a step ahead!
Let me introduce the American Service Members Protection Act aka The Hague Invasion Act. It was signed by George Bush in the year 2002.
what does it say? now listen to carefully the ASPA authorizes the president to use and i'm quoting “all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any u.s or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by on behalf of or at the request of the International Criminal Court”
“all means necessary” and that could mean anything, this law empowers america to invade The Hague hence the name “The Hague invasion act” and i'm not saying the u.s will actually do it but imagine the audacity. Washington will go to any lengths to protect its war criminals and by the way the list is long. The man who signed this law George Bush is one of them, his war on terror killed thousands of innocent civilians, he authorized torture, he illegally detained hundreds of people but The Hague won't touch him because if they do america could invade. The man who succeeded Bush is no better, Barack Obama launched 563 drone strikes around 800 civilians were killed in those so-called precision strikes. Again no accountability!
Now don't get me wrong, none of this justifies what Vladimir Putin is doing, his crimes in Chechnya and Ukraine are equally bad, we are simply pointing out the obvious a broken system a system that lets powerful war criminals get away. We cannot let superpowers pick and choose which parts of the international system they like. Just think about it, america and russia are both United Nations security council members yet both of them do not recognize the ICC. What's the point of the system? We don't know how this war will end or whether russia will be held accountable but here's what we do know, The post WWII system needs to be reformed if not more George Bush’s will emerge more Putin’s will be emboldened and the world will simply be a mute spectator

Op, what exactly are you driving at?

hotseat:
Op, what exactly are you driving at?

Read the last sentence

Sleepy Joe

Zelensky should better wise up, he’s alone in this.
Civilians can’t keep paying for the stupidity of their leader!

kyivmhayor:
Zelensky should better wise up, he’s alone in this.
Civilians can’t keep paying for the stupidity of their leader!

Whenever he address NATO country parliaments and he as for no fly zone, they outrightly deny him and then stand up to clap for him...
The guy seems to be enjoying the hype and social media popularity he’s getting, the earlier he realizes Putin won’t pay a dime to rebuild Kyiv, the earlier he makes a decisive decision

kyivmhayor:
Zelensky should better wise up, he’s alone in this.
Civilians can’t keep paying for the stupidity of their leader!

Their civilians are not wise.
Why are they allow their bad leaders lead them to death.

Ukraine leaders are as corrupt as african leaders.
Why should that kind of leaders be allowed by people to lead them to war.

I cannot follow nigerian leaders to lead me to such kind of destruction.

America is the biggest war criminal country.
They committed savagery in iraq and afghanistan.

BIDEN AND PUTIN ARE PHENOMENONS. THEY'RE WISE AND ERUDITE. THEY BOTH MAKE SILLY SENSE AS TO THE DIRECTION THE WORLD SHOULD MOVE AND THE SCALE OF BALANCE THEY INDIVIDUALLY REQUIRE.
BUT WHY ARE THEY SCHEMING AS TO WHO WANTS TO OUTSMART THE OTHER AT THE SECURITY COUNCIL?
THE WORLD HAS GONE BEYOND CUNNING MAN DIE CUNNING MAN BURY HIM. LET THEM PLEASE INTEGRATE THEIR VIEWS FAST AT THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL. EVERY COUNTRY LIKE EVERY INDIVIDUAL IS FREE TO ACT, INTERACT AND MOVE WITH CIVILITY AND ASTUTENESS IN THIS WORLD.

PLEASE PUTIN, Xi JINPING, BIDEN AND JOHNSON SHOULD BEHAVE AND GIVE THE WORLD PEACE.

FROM ORUNTO27.

THIS IS A COLD WAR CONTINUATION. UKRAINE IS JUST A QUINEA PIG.

Toh

hotseat:
Op, what exactly are you driving at?

That BIDEN, JOHNSON, PUTIN AND Xi JINPING should stop these nonsense intimidation of one another and the sufferings of weaker COUNTRIES.

NIGERIA IS NOT A FULANI CONFEDERATE SO US UK AND EU MUST STOP RIFA-RUGA ISLAMISATION FULANISATION AND ANARCHY POLICY IN NIGERIA.

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helinues:
Toh

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Read the last sentence and know that when the elephants fight whether in cold or hot wars, The grass suffers. The ARABS AND NIGERIA FOR AFRICA INVOLVEMENT WILL ONLY COMPLICATE THE ISSUES.

I am applalled by the level of HYPOCRISY of western countries. AMERICA killed thousands of people in Iraq
Nobody sanctioned them

Sleepy Joe.

LIFELESS BUHARI.
BRITISH AND US PRESIDENTIAL EXPERIMENT.
ETCETERA ETCETERA.

Zelensky is only a SPIDER IN A WEB.


PUTIN CAN USE A FORK OR AN ORDINARY PIN TO DRAG IT OUT OF THE WEB.

Sleepy Joe. COOOOORECT.

TRUMP IS A VERY RESPONSIBLE AMERICAN AND A WORLD ORDER LEADER.