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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Julia&#039;s Gun" data-source="post: 420229" data-attributes="member: 987">From today's Guardian website: "The Department of Justice said it was pulling out of the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA) two years after the Biden administration joined it with a commitment to hold Putin, Russia’s president, to account for the 2022 invasion and subsequent crimes committed by Russian forces.The centre was established to hold the leaders of Russia and its allies in Belarus, North Korea and Iran accountable for a category of crimes listed as aggression under international law for undertaking and supporting the attack."I find this change in US policy really alarming, and could be effectively paving the way to let Putin off the hook from possible war crime charges in the future.  Given Putin's previous treatment of his opponents, using nerve agents on the streets of the UK, murdering not just political opponents but journalists over here in England - and just a couple of days ago, Russian agents from Bulgaria were convicted of spying and plotting to murder a journalist in the UK, and based themselves just a few miles up the coast in East Anglia from where I live. This guy is a monster and a tyrant, and convicted felon Trump gives off the impresion he is siding with a like minded villain. Does he really think Putin was justified in invading Ukraine?The thing that sickens me most is when the Russians blew up the Kakhovka damn that flooded all those Ukrainian villages a couple of years ago, destroying lives and communities, farms, forests and wreaking environmental havoc on the region. It was horrific and devastated communities, and the b'stards just denied it, despite evidence of explosives being found in the damn. (Just what the Nazi's did during the German retreat at the end of the Second World War.)Putin is an evil disgusting fascist dictator and is totally responsible for all Russia's actions in Ukraine. Whatever happened in 2014, I feel none of his actions since can be ethically justified, whatever one's criticisms of previous US policies or of NATO. It's horrible having lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union and all the positive vibes we had about a new Europe in the 1990s and 2000s, to see us slipping backwards again, and how Trump has casually ripped up 70 years of foreign policy commitments.Strange to think that if that Crooks guy had aimed just an inch more to the right on July 13th 2024, we wouldn't be having all of this happening now, and it's all down to those gullible voters who decided to elect Mr Trump.</blockquote>

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