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Haha.

Maybe after Russia answers for war crimes the EU top court can focus on RT ban.

Rule of law must never be transactional. If war crimes have been committed is a matter for other courts to decide. If the RT ban is legitimate, the EU General Court will decide.

We in the west do well to remember not to follow the same kangaroo court structures that we protest when other blocs mix politics with justice.

Man, if I'd been in Russia's place, I'd ask for equal treatment.

I.e. wait for court to indicte responsible for drone killings,Yemen, Iraq, etc. I imagine I'd wait quite a lot.

EDIT: Indict -> Indicte

Indict, but you're right. The international community has egg on its face from how it is treating Russia vs. how it is not treating Saudi Arabia.

The parallels with the Saudi-Yemen war are many: it's an invasion of a neighboring country in the middle of a civil war under the pretense of stamping out problematic elements that has had a lot of collateral damage. Yet the Saudis get to continue being a member of the United Nations and benefit from their close alliance with the United States.

Don't get me wrong, I think that Russia's punishment is both justified and fair. I just think that it's absurd that they're getting hit with the bat when the Saudis have done the same thing in our very recent past and have faced no real consequences.

This is whataboutism; the EU should be upholding its laws, and the International Criminal Courts should uphold theirs. There's no reason to mix the issues.

And hopefully after that they will focus on EU and US war crimes.

They won't focus on US war crimes as they are not a signatory of the ICC and even have a law to "invade" the Haag to extract any US service personal facing such prosecution. [1]

I also expect the US to veto (if they have to, China may do it anyway) any UN security council decision that would make some way for Russia to face war crimes as it will eventually backfire. Especially since the US has been the one vetoing resolutions against Israel on multiple occasions. [2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_...

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/19/a-history-of-the-us...

I was being sarcastic, of course they won't, because they don't care. They only enforce said war crimes against geopolitical enemies such as Russia.

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