The ICC has become a failed project as far as international justice is concerned
Now that the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin there is going to be a frenzy of condemnation of the SA government as we get closer to the Brics meeting to be held here in August.
They obsess about Russian “disinformation”, but never use this term to describe American propaganda, such as the lies about “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq, the carefully cultivated paranoia around Chinese spy balloons, or the obvious spin around the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline. One is that the state responsible for the most war crimes since the end of World War 2, the US, does not recognise the jurisdiction of the ICC. As a result, US war criminals such as George Bush cannot be brought before the court. This is a huge problem for the legitimacy of the court. Israel, a US client state, has also refused to recognise the authority of the court.
There is another problem that will arise if Putin comes to SA for the Brics meetings. For one state to arrest the head of another state would be taken as an act of war. SA, already steeped in a worsening economic and political crisis and unable even to fix the potholes in its roads, could hardly manage an intense conflict with Russia. It’s simply not viable for our state to make a move against Russian sovereignty.
The ICC is a failed project because it has not been able to bring a critical mass of powerful states under its ambit, because it is not willing to move against Western or pro-Western leaders, and because it has tended to focus on crimes committed by leaders of weak states, with a particular bias towards African politicians.
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