war crimes are going around

Russia and China in the hot seats

The announcement of arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands, for Vladimir Putin and his assistant broke yesterday. Soon after the conflict began 13 months ago Ukrainian officials charged that Russian steps directly targeting civilians were war crimes. The Zelenskyy government documents these crimes daily.

In typical Russian fashion, Putin found a manner by which Russians were the victims rather than acknowledging or, much more relevantly, altering brutal attacks on civilians such as the bombing of a theater where people were taking shelter a year ago today. For Putin, he is incapable of Russia being a power, seeing it instead always as a