A human rights organization has submitted a document to the International Criminal Court accusing the former US president, as well as his secretary of state Antony Blinken, and his secretary of defense Lloyd Austin.
  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Absolutely do it. Obviously an American president is never going to actual be put on trial, but let’s get an official determination so it’s not like we’re just pretending the concept doesn’t apply if you’re from a powerful Western nation.

  • Tw4tnoM0r3@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
    725·
    2 days ago

    Thanks to the BluE MagA who put us in this mess.

    Oh wait it doesn’t work here.

        • kreskin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          54·
          2 days ago

          So what? Is lemonde a bad source? is the article not legit?

          Or are you just sour because blue-maga doesnt like to acknowledge that Biden is a war criminal who should have the same punishment as other genociders. He should be Slobodan Milosevic’ed. And you carried his water, didnt you.

          • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 hours ago

            kreskin, I’m with you.

            There is a Buddhist prayer that one NOT incarnate as any sort of “king” or such,

            simply because the more authority one has, & the greater the political-consequences of one’s decisions,

            the more likely it becomes that no matter what one decides, one HAS to cause mortal-harm on some people … & being Buddhist, the praying-one doesn’t want that karma…

            Biden, in my eyes, waaay crossed the line, in supporting Netanyahu…

            but the more I know, the more I understand, the less clean this whole damn planet is, politically…

            it’s beginning to look, to me, like it isn’t even possible to do ANYthing, in the world-stage, that actually is “clean”…

            I saw a wonderful informing piece, on yt, a few weeks ago, on the mess that is DR Congo & Rwanda, etc…

            it’s the Middle East of Africa!

            … shit … it’s one of the Middle Easts of Africa, more like ( wish I’d clued-in about that before just-now )

            I think part of the problem is lack of resets:

            IF we just keep continuing relationships, supportings, etc, without RE-assessing whether this is valid, THEN we end-up inevitably committing accessory-to-evil, as Biden did with backing Netanyahu, in my eyes, & many others’ too…

            So, … who’s going to allow such periodic objective re-assessments to happen?

            ANY of the incumbents likely to tolerate being seen to be criminal?

            XOR will they simply snuff the people who’d threaten accountability?

            Sometimes, when entrenched-evil really is involved, not-rocking-the-boat means being allowed to live longer…

            Ah: the periodic reassessment is required, AND some incumbents would literally murder any who dare threaten with accountability, BUT that doesn’t mean that all incumbents cannot be made accountable, only the most-evil…

            so, some can be pruned-back, in their power…

            an interesting challenge!

            How to make accountability objectively on all who wield power, equally, & how to gradually ratchet this up until accountability & responsibility & authority are all unitary, instead-of divorced-from-each-other?

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