.ZeeshanAleem: President Biden accusing Putin of war crimes is more complicated than it seems
for a new Nuremberg: a standalone tribunal to try Putin and others for starting the war. Because that's what the Nuremberg trials originally prioritized — the crime of aggressive war. Technically, the International Criminal Court can also try aggression, but not in this situation, since Russia is not party to the treaty.
In our lifetimes, the importance of war crimes accusations to those who got concerned about American detainee abuse, and especially torture, was not just to see if they could bring an end to the practice, and not just to pave the way for accountability for Americans involved in the practice, but also to make the war seem less legitimate. And so I would say that's probably the central goal of those who are making this claim.
I'm of the view that we may have lost focus on what used to be the central war crime, which was aggression. And in a way, the silver lining of Putin's war is that it's helping us get that old focus back after years of prettifying illegal wars. Let's focus on their illegality at the start. But, later, in the 1990s, when the International Criminal Court gets founded, it's very significant that the crime of aggression was left out. Even so, the United States steered clear of involvement. Sometimes that weakened, under Democratic presidents, but it was never a remote possibility that the United States would ratify the Rome Statute [the treaty that established the International Criminal Court]. And of course, it still hasn't.
We should return to what the Americans and Russians once agreed about — which is that aggression is the crime of crimes.
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