MANUFACTURING
A
CASUS BELLI
How are the White House
and the State Department trying to build a criminal case against Vladimir Putin
and all of Russia?
By Sidney Hey
There is no doubt that
the advance of technology and the sophistication of communications has been a
great advance in life and has narrowed the distances and relationships between
human beings no matter where they are. In conclusion, today, although certain
countries still have a monopoly on the audiovisual media through which they
project a reality that suits the interests of their governments, they can no longer
massively mislead public opinion.
Creating a rumour or
inventing an incident is no longer so easy to swallow with so many electronic
eyes on a mobile phone watching. The mainstream media in charge of spreading
such hoaxes are no longer credible and governments like their conspiratorial
sects no longer have that valuable resource of tricksters.
In this context, the
war in Ukraine is militarily unsustainable and despite NATO's arms supplies and
strategic support, the Kiev regime simply no longer has the manpower to fight.
This is neither an exaggeration nor a minor detail. In recent months, it has
become clear that Ukrainian government groups have been searching homes or
literally hunting down men on the streets of Kiev to enlist them in the
militia.
As we also know, many
of these men were immediately sent to the Artemivsk (Bakhmut) front where they
were mercilessly eliminated.
Although the Western
media continue to support and make up the face of the Zelensky regime, the
critical situation on the ground and the desperation of his commanders in the
face of the untenable situation of their men in the east, the comedian, clearly
angry at a situation he does not know how to improve, cried out with a straight
face that if necessary it will be the sons of Americans who will have to die
for Ukraine. Threat or prediction?
At the same time, one
can see the failure of the hybrid warfare tactics that the US has been using
against Russia. Everything that Washington through the CIA could deploy
covertly and quietly has not yielded the expected results in destabilising the
political, commercial and financial life of the Russian Federation. From
supporting and encouraging terrorist actions inside Russian territory and
against Russian interests abroad (Nord Stream pipelines) through financial and
commercial terror measures to the multi-billion dollars financial support of
the Biden administration (more than 75 billion US$) to sustain a regime that is
not only corrupt, but also totally undemocratic.
But the show must go
on, as the saying goes, and Washington is looking for a formula by means of
which to argue an excuse with which it can (before the United Nations) openly
enter Ukraine. The incident of 14 March with the MQ-9 Reaper drone over
the Black Sea is undoubtedly an attempt to do just that. The alleged
shoot-down, which -curiously- was recorded with the UAV's camera and
released by the Pentagon, did not convince many, even within the US. For these
sceptics there are certain inconsistencies in the footage that would reveal
staging, most notably the lack of geolocation data and the failure to identify
the “SU-27” interceptor aircraft that supposedly sprayed fuel (the red star is
not visible on the rudder).
For these suspicious
observers, there are several unanswered questions, such as why perform such a
reckless manoeuvre and not shoot it down from a distance without being noticed?
Or, if it is fuel that was sprayed, why is the camera not splashed by this
element? That is why the allegedly recorded video over the Black Sea does not
appear very credible when compared to other inventions of military intelligence
and their civilian colleagues in the CIA (editing specialists) such as the
alleged assassination of ISIS Caliph Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi and the executions in
Bucha or Mariupol (https://www.veteranstoday.com/2023/03/16/us-drone-fallen-in-black-sea-suspicious-video-from-pentagon/ ).
If the analysis of
these observers is correct, we would be witnessing symptoms of acute
desperation in the White House trying to give some sustenance to the financial
squandering of its ultra-nationalist pawn in Kiev. This desperation can be seen
in the insufficiency of these manipulations to achieve the expected impact on
public opinion and, obviously, on bodies such as the European Council and the
United Nations. As could not be otherwise, the loudmouth is back on the attack
once again and focusing his daggers on the figure of Russian President Vladimir
Putin himself, accusing him of alleged and aberrant crimes.
This time, it is the
International Criminal Court which, under the Rome Statute, has opened a case
against the Russian president and the Russian children's official Maria
Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, accusing them of systematically “relocating” at least
6,000 Ukrainian children, interpreting it as kidnapping for subsequent
"pro-Russian" indoctrination. These are the grounds on which they are
calling for their arrest. Beyond the programmatic measure and the dubious
legitimacy of countries such as the US to support this instance of which they
disown (for their countless and aberrant crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan), the
accusation is clearly adulterated in terms of the description of the facts and,
therefore, the framing of the crimes that they intend to present (https://news.antiwar.com/2023/03/17/international-criminal-court-issues-arrest-warrants-for-putin-and-other-russian-officials/ ).
Unlike Volodymyr
Zelensky's forces using their population as a shield, as has been amply
documented, Russian troops have evacuated all civilians, including children,
from the territories they control and taken them out of the area of
hostilities, one of them being the Crimean peninsula.