{"id":207265,"date":"2022-03-21T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=207265"},"modified":"2022-03-17T06:28:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T06:28:38","slug":"international-law-is-a-meaningless-concept-when-it-only-applies-to-u-s-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/03\/international-law-is-a-meaningless-concept-when-it-only-applies-to-u-s-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"International Law Is a Meaningless Concept When It only Applies to U.S. Enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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17 Mar 2022 – <\/em>Australian whistleblower David McBride just made the following statement on Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been asked if I think the invasion of Ukraine is illegal.<\/strong><\/em>
\nMy answer is: If we don\u2019t hold our own leaders to account, we can\u2019t hold other leaders to account.<\/strong><\/em>
\nIf the law is not applied consistently, it is not the law.<\/strong><\/em>
\nIt is simply an excuse we use to target our enemies.<\/strong><\/em>
\nWe will pay a heavy price for our hubris of 2003 in the future. <\/strong><\/em>
\nWe didn\u2019t just fail to punish Bush and Blair: we rewarded them. We re-elected them. We knighted them. <\/strong><\/em>
\nIf you want to see Putin in his true light imagine him landing a jet and then saying \u2018Mission Accomplished\u2019.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As far as I can tell this point is logically unassailable.\u00a0International law is a meaningless concept when it only applies to people the US power alliance doesn\u2019t like.\u00a0This point is driven home by the life of McBride himself, whose own government responded to his publicizing suppressed information about war crimes committed by Australian forces<\/a> in Afghanistan by charging him as a criminal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Neither George W Bush nor Tony Blair are in prison cells at The Hague where international law says they ought to be<\/a>. Bush is still painting away from the comfort of his home, issuing proclamations<\/a> comparing Putin to Hitler and platforming arguments<\/a> for more interventionism in Ukraine. Blair is still merily warmongering his charred little heart out, saying<\/a> NATO should not rule out directly attacking Russian forces in what amounts to a call for a thermonuclear world war.<\/p>\n

They are free as birds, singing their same old demonic songs from the rooftops.<\/p>\n

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Tony Blair calls for NATO not to rule out military intervention against Russia in Ukraine<\/p>\n

— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n