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meowmeowmeowmeow4x · 14 days ago

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Sleeping With the Fishies Chapter 1

This fic is brought to you by my extremely narrow skillset of only kinda being good at writing xDDDD Which is to say if I had the art or programming know-how to illustrate Tim's social media posts, I would have loved to U_U oh well

I posted this fic to ao3 back in may, but i've decided to start porting my fics to tumblr too, for anyone who wants to read my most fucked up fanfic :D

If you want to leave a comment or read the ao3 version, here it is :D

Instagram post: May 9th, 2024.

The image is of the Gotham skyline. Several tall buildings take over the background, lights on against the night sky. The caption reads ‘There’s something neat about taking a picture at just the right angle.’

Instagram post: May 14th 2024

The image is of a naked man with a tail for legs, and red scales over his entire body, and fins at the end of his tail, on his hips, back, arms and ears. The man is lying flat on his stomach on a rock, arms tense as if he is about to pounce. The shadow of a boat is cast over him.

The caption reads: omg I just caught this AMAZING pic of the Red Hood about to take on a smuggling organization. I’m so lucky?!?!

Instagram post: May 15th 2024

The image is of a disassembled camera, leaking water on a wooden table. The caption reads: the smugglers didn’t survive, and neither did my camera qwq its ok I can use my allowance to get another one

Instagram post: May 17th 2024

The image is of another naked man in the water. His skin is completely pitch black except for blue rings scattered across his body. It is day time, and the water is clear enough to see his bottom half, which is made up of eight thick tentacles. He is pulling himself onto the pier, offering sweets to a group of disheveled children. The oldest of them wears a tired, but kind smile.

The caption reads: Even tho the bats r a crime family and they’re terrorist and yada yada, i think its important to remember they can also be very kind too

Instagram post: May 20th 2024

A brand new camera sits on a wooden table. The caption reads: im so glad I was able to get a new camera yayyy! I’m gonna go hunting for some more pics! Watch this space <3

FROM CNN: BAT FAMILY DECLARES NORTH ATLANTIC OFFLIMITS, UNLESS TARRIF PAID BY GOVERNMENTS WISHING TO CROSS.

For the past few months, the mysterious Bat Family, a family of sirens named after their brutal patriarch, has been waging a war of expansion against Atlantis, ruled by Arthur Curry, king of Atlantis and member of the Justice League. This comes as the Bat Family consolidates its power over the Ring of Fire in the Pacific. With this new water, the nation of New Gotham is now the single largest nation in terms of territory in the history of the world.

Shipping vessels escorted by NATO Naval powers are now being attacked without mercy. Although there is no death toll, the damage to these ships is beginning to count to the billions, with no sign of stopping. The Bat Family have delivered their ultimatum to 100 different countries, including China, Russia, the USA and most of Europe. They remand the cessation of trash dumping into the ocean, as well as the immediate reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by at least 5% within this year, and further reductions in further years. If these demands are not met, then the Bat Family promise to sink every ship that crosses the North Atlantic or the Pacific originating from the offending countries.

Instagram post: May 21st 2024

The photo shows a burning, sinking ship at night. Empty cages float in the water, as well as other debris. The caption reads: was too slow to catch them in action, but man. Sometimes I wonder why people do stupid things like traffic other human beings and hold them agains ttheir will. That’s so evil TwT

Instagram post: May 22nd 2024

An aerial shot of the octopus man, known as Nightwing, sitting on a rock. In his lap sits a young boy, about 12-13 years old, with a fishtail and scales across his whole body. Robin’s scales are green and gold around his fins. His expression appears annoyed. His left arm is bleeding. Nightwing is in the middle of wrapping a bandage around the boy.

The caption reads: Nightwing’s teamwork is always incredible,,, i wish I had a big bro like nightwing. I wish my family was like the Bat family (not in the murdery way!! Just the way they treat each other and look at each ohter, you know?)

Instagram post: May 24th 2024

A collage of different pictures in the rain. The caption reads: parents said theyll be away for another couple months. took some rainy pics because its raining in my heart

Gotham Gazette: SIREN CRIME LORDS SPOILER AND BLACKTIP LEAVES BLOODY WRECK AT GOTHAM HARBOUR. 15 DEAD, 8 INJURED, 50 CHILDREN RESCUED.

Instagram post: May 25th 2024

The photo shows two female sirens, a fit purple woman with blond hair and many pointy spines and a shark woman, chatting while bodies float around them. The purple scaled-woman, Spoiler, holds the severed arm of a human in her hands. Her teeth are bloody.

The caption reads: I found Spoiler and Blacktip with my drone today! I never know if they’re big sisters to the Bat Family or just associates. What do you guys think?

Gotham Gazette: WAYNE FOUNDATION HOSTS CHARITY BALL RAISING AWARENESS FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND MODERN SLAVERY

Instagram post: May 28th, 2024

The video opens with a young, skinny child in the foreground. “So, uhm, hello. My name’s T-tim. Tim Drake, and I’m the one who’s been taking all these pictures. Er, I hope you’ve all enjoyed them! So, uhm, the Bats, right! You know I take lots of pictures of them, and they’re known for dealing with human traffickers. So I just wanted to go over some tips I’ve found for recognizing human trafficking victims.”

The video continues…

Google search history:

How to fight sirens

How to fight the mafia

How to fight billionaires

how to defend house from invaders

How to build a bomb

How to make home alone traps

How to make acid

Is acid fatal?

how to run away and not get caught

how to fight super smell

how to escape from being kidnapped

Mom

Mom? I’m in a lot of trouble. Can you pick up the phone? I really need your help.

I know you and Dad are super busy, but this is really important. I promise I’ll make it up to you.

Mom somebody’s coming after me. I can’t say who, but they’re coming for me now.

Mom

please

i dont have much time

(unread)

Ring… Ring… Ring…

“Mom! I’m so glad you picked up, I-”

Ambient chatter filters through the connection. “Timothy, your father and I have already told you. We’re at an extremely, extremely important conference and we present do not have the time to hold your hand across a continent.”

“But mom-,”

“Don’t talk back to me young man! I don’t want to hear another word from you until this conference is finished. If you need any help, just ring the housekeeper, and call 911 for emergencies, got it?”

Google search history

What happens if 911 ignores you?

What to do when 911 doesn’t help you

How to identify non-corrupt cops

How to make cops listen to you

Justice league help line

Ring… Ring… Ring…

“Hello, Green Lantern here. What’s your emergency?”

“Hello? M-my n-neighbours are in my yard and-,”

“Are you in immediate danger?”

“N-no, I d-don’t think at the moment, but-,”

“Sorry kid, but I think you’re better off calling your parents first, then the police, ok? This line is for emergencies only.”

“Wait! I,-“ The call gets cut off as another call is accepted.

Instagram post May 30th 2024

The video shows a young boy over a large white board with a presentation projected on to it. He begins, “Strategies for detecting signs of abuse or distress in child victims.”

Instagram post May 30th 2024

The picture shows a list of common Morse Code phrases.

The caption reads: And most important of all is knowing the Morse Code for SOS! If you’re ever in trouble SPAM IT. AND IF ANYONE IS TAPPING OR BLINKING IN A WEIRD WAY, THEY MIGHT BE CALLING FOR HELP

Gotham Gazette: DRAKE INDUSTRIES HEIR TIMOTHY DRAKE SPOTTED AT MARTHA WAYNE FOUNDATION SKATE PARK. GOES VIRAL WITH DAREDEVIL MOVES.

“I go here every Wednesday and Saturday, and Sunday if I’m free. If I’m not here on Wednesday after school then somebody call the police, hahah. If anyone wants to show me some new moves or learn from mine, I’ll be happy to talk! I’m here every Wednesday and Saturday!”

Google Search History:

Self defense laws

Self defense new jersey

How not to get sued when using self defense

How to make your parents seem like good people

How to hide your parents parenting mistakes

How to not get adopted

How to look unappealing to kidnappers

Dad

Dad I’m in serious trouble. Please come home

i need u

i love u dad

im in danger

please, im begging

please

(unread)

You have (1) voicemail. Beeeeep.

Hyper ventilating. Childlike sobs. “Mom. Dad. Please. They’re closing in on me. I don’t know how long I can h-hold them off. Please I need you. I promise I’ll never, ever ask for anything every again.

From: [email protected]

To: [email protected]

Dear Your Majesty the King of Atlantis, Arthur Curry

You might not know me, but my name is Tim Drake, and I’m 10 years old and I live in Gotham. Recently I’ve discovered one of the Bat Family’s greatest secrets, but they also know that I know and now they want to get me. I have exhausted every other avenue of escape or rescue. You are my only hope. If I could, I would tell you the secret now, but currently my blackmailing the Bat Family with its exposure is the only thing keeping me alive.

Please. Nobody else is helping me. They’ll destroy me and everything I love. I have no other options.

Attached are some photos and proof that they’re stalking me.

Yours sincerely, Tim Drake

From: [email protected]

To: [email protected]

Dear Timothy,

You are very brave for reaching out. I am deeply sorry that you have been failed by so many of your institutions, including the Justice League. Please be assured I am sending my best men to rescue you as we speak. However, they will be forced to swim through siren territory. Please hold out for as long as you can. Help is on the way.

Yours sincerely, Arthur Curry, King of Atlantis

Instagram post: June 2nd 2024

The video shows a disheveled, dirty boy. His eyes are red and raw. His cheeks look sunken, as if he hasn’t eaten in a while. “Hello! My name is Tim Drake, and my parents are great! They gave me this huge mansion to live in, and they spend all this money buying nice things for me like this $10,000 camera and drone set, and they pay for the best private education in Gotham. Like, isn’t that so amazing of them? And I definitely do not want to get adopted by ANY other family. Nope. My parents are perfect and if you see me adopted by anyone else, THEN CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY.”

Gotham Gazette: TRAGEDY STRIKES AS DRAKE INDUSTRIES HEIR TIMOTHY DRAKE TURNS UP DEAD. POLICE RULE PARENTAL NEGLECT

It’s a dark day in Gotham’s history as social media darling Tim Drake, who has taken the city by storm with his charming photography and public PSAs, has been found dead. Late last night, Dick Grayson-Wayne, son of eccentric billionaire Bruce Wayne, dove into Gotham Harbour, claiming to have seen Tim Drake falling in. 40 minutes later, at 11.39pm, search parties discovered a gruesome sight. Tim Drake’s iconic red hoodie and ripped jeans were found in the water, shredded to pieces and covered in blood. Further search parties found pieces of bone, and strips of flesh later identified as intestines, lungs and teeth. Analysts have already confirmed a match to the young boy.

Security feeds show Tim Drake wandering around Gotham Harbour, a place he is known to frequent based on his many social media posts of siren photography. At about 10.57pm, the feeds show him slipping on an oily patch. Tim Drake falls into the water, before struggling for several minutes, eventually going under and not coming up. Minutes later, Dick Grayson-Wayne sprints and dives off the edge, only to emerge empty-handed. It is presumed Tim Drake’s body was claimed by sirens soon after.

Thousands are in morning for the young child, so full of potential, and beloved by so many. Bruce Wayne, long-time neighbor to the Drakes, had this to say.

[Embedded video shows Bruce Wayne, eyes red and choking back further tears. He blows his nose loudly. “W-well, i-i-it’s just so awful! Timothy was- was- was, he was such a bright young lad. And now his l-life is just-, he was right there! And tell you what, I know I have a reputation.”

He gestures to his gaggle of children, lined up stoically behind him. Bruce Wayne continues, “But I deeply care for the suffering of children. Honestly, I thought like everyone else that the Drakes took their kid abroad on their trips. Then I saw Timothy all alone and I asked him if his parents were home, and he got all evasive on me. Then I saw more signs, but I didn’t wanna overstep, you know? S-so I just kept trying to call his parents. And kept trying. And I just couldn’t reach them. I know I should’ve checked in on him, but no child wants a massive strange man showing up at their house when they’re a-alone, you know? But n-n-now I wish I did b-because-,”

The man breaks down into tears. A stately-looking butler escorts him and his children inside. “My deepest apologies, but Master Bruce has a soft heart, and will be unavailable for further questions.”

Police Commissioner Gordon has already opened an enquiry into Tim Drake’s parents. Why was Tim Drake alone in Gotham Harbour, a hub for organized crime and siren attacks? Where were they the night their son died? Where are they now?

Will Tim Drake, a child taken from us too soon, receive justice?

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xtruss · 2 years ago

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ICC prosecutor Karim Khan meets with Ukrainian President Zelensky, March 2023

How North Atlantic Terrorist Organization (NATO) States Sponsored ICC Prosecutor’s Putin Arrest Warrant

— Max Blumenthal | April 13, 2023 | The Grayzone

ICC Prosecutor General Karim Khan raised millions from NATO states by crafting an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin while freezing investigations into well-documented US and Israeli war crimes. Along the way, he won powerful friends in Washington, London, Kiev — and Hollywood.

Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, stood before a podium on March 3, 2023, and issued an unusual qualifier: “Of course the prosecutor of the ICC does not, whatever affection and regard I may have for my dear friends in Ukraine – has no special affinity to any particular country. We’re not a party to any hostilities.”

“We have an affinity to legality,” Khan insisted in British-accented English. “We have an affinity and commitment to the rule of law.”

Khan made his declaration of legal independence while headlining the “United for Justice” conference, an event personally organized in Lviv, Ukraine, by President Volodymyr Zelensky. There, he pressed the flesh with Ukraine’s president and conferred with US Attorney General Merrick Garland, who had stopped in to advance the Biden administration’s effort to haul Russian President Vladimir Putin before an international war crimes tribunal.

It was Khan’s fourth visit to Ukraine since the Russian military invaded the country in February 2022.

On March 17, 2023, Khan introduced a formal ICC warrant for Putin’s arrest, accusing the Russian president of the “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children to a “network of camps” throughout Russia. The warrant arrived days before the 20th anniversary of the NATO invasion of Iraq, a crime directed by US and UK officials whom the ICC has refused to prosecute to this day.

As The Grayzone has reported, the ICC’s warrant was inspired by a State Department-funded report that contained no field reporting, no concrete evidence of war crimes, and no proof that Russia was actually targeting Ukrainian youth with a massive deportation campaign. In fact, the investigators acknowledged finding “no documentation of child mistreatment, including sexual or physical violence, among the camps referenced in this report.” What’s more, the inquiry’s lead author told The Grayzone’s Jeremy Loffredo that “a large amount” of the Russian youth camps his team researched were “primarily cultural education – like, I would say, teddy bear.”

Though Khan pledged his absolute independence in his hunt for Putin, he is closely aligned with the same Western governments that are currently engaged in a proxy battle with Russia on the Ukrainian battlefield. Meanwhile, he has stalled the ICC’s case against Israel, frustrating human rights lawyers who represent the victims of grisly violence in the besieged Gaza Strip. Additionally, Khan formally dropped the international court’s case against the US military for its actions in Afghanistan.

Through his focus on Ukraine, Khan has presided over a massive surge in Western financial support for his office, with much of the money earmarked for his investigation into Russian officials. The ICC’s issuance of Putin’s arrest warrant happened to coincide with a major donor’s conference for the court in London, England.

The ICC prosecutor’s political entanglements do not stop there. Celebrity lawyer Amal Clooney has worked as a special advisor to Khan’s office while simultaneously counseling the Ukrainian government on its initiative to target Russian officials with prosecution, either by the ICC or another international body. Clooney has also served as a special liaison to the British Foreign Secretary.

It is perhaps no surprise, then, that after two decades of unremitting hostile relations with the ICC, official Washington is suddenly warming up to the court, and is endeared by its top prosecutor.

Top: Karim Khan (left) with US Attorney General Merrick Garland in Lviv, Ukraine on February 28, 2023. Bottom: ICC prosecutor Karim Khan on a government-guided tour of Kharkiv, Ukraine

ICC’s Khan Inspires “Sighs of Relief in Jerusalem,” Support From the US

US President Joe Biden helped set the tone in Washington with a full-throated endorsement of the ICC prosecutor Khan’s warrant against Putin, declaring it “justified.” On the Republican side of the aisle, the US Senate’s most enthusiastic cheerleader of the Ukraine proxy war, Lindsey Graham, was even more fulsome in his support for the court’s campaign, celebrating the ICC’s prosecutor as a modern-day Nazi hunter.

Washington’s sudden embrace of the ICC represented a sudden and clearly opportunistic break from two decades of antagonism.

Almost as soon as US President George W. Bush entered the White House in 2001, his administration introduced the Servicemembers Protection Act, a measure that authorized a future US military invasion of the Hague in the event the ICC indicted any US personnel for war crimes. When the bill passed the Senate the following year, not one member of the Republican Party opposed it.

The US intensified its campaign against the ICC in 2019, after then-Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced an investigation into war crimes committed by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. While Secretary of State Mike Pompeo personally denounced Bensouda, the Senate introduced a bipartisan resolution calling on him to escalate its attacks on the “politicized” ICC. Graham was among the signatories to the resolution. (The Biden administration also opposes the ICC investigation into Israeli war crimes).

When Bensouda declared her intention to investigate both the US and Taliban for crimes against humanity in Afghanistan the following year, Washington placed the prosecutor under sanctions and revoked her US visa.

Since replacing Bensouda in 2021, Khan has worked to soothe the nerves of the US and its most violence-prone allies. The Jerusalem Post reported in June 2022 that “there have been some sighs of relief in Jerusalem,” as Khan had “not issued a single public statement nor taken any single public action regarding Israel-Palestine” in his first year as prosecutor.

“There has been no significant progress or measures taken, the investigation [into Israeli atrocities] is not a priority for the office of the prosecutor, and no cases have been brought yet,” a member of the legal team representing victims of Israeli violence in the occupied Gaza Strip told The Grayzone. “Every time the issue is raised before Khan, he never takes a position, and there’s never been a statement.”

The lawyer noted the irony of Khan’s obsession with the transfer of civilians from Ukraine to Russia, considering he has ignored the forced deportation of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the territory now known as “Israel” to occupied territories and refugee camps across the Middle East. “In Palestine civilians have been transferred for decades, it’s the most over documented situation of war crimes in history,” they said. “Palestine should be the final benchmark for the credibility of the court.”

Khan also narrowed the scope of the ICC’s Afghanistan investigation, protecting US forces from prosecution by focusing solely crimes committed by the Taliban. “This decision reinforces the perception that these institutions set up in the West and by the West are just instruments for the West’s political agenda,” Shaharzad Akbar, the former chair of Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission, complained to The Intercept

“This was clearly a political decision – there’s really no other way it can be interpreted,” Jennifer Gibson, a US lawyer who heads an investigation into US abuses in Afghanistan, said of Khan’s action. “It gave the US and their allies a get out of jail free card.”

With its two most contentious investigations out of the way, a clearly pliant figure in the prosecutor’s office, and Russian troops inside Ukraine, the previously battered ICC suddenly experienced a deluge of Western financial support.

“In the weeks after 24 February [2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine], the [International Criminal] court has been flooded with cash and secondments,” reported JusticeInfo.net.

Much of the money flowed directly to Khan’s office, with special earmarks for efforts targeting Russian officials. As Maria Elena Vignoli of Human Rights Watch told JusticeInfo.net, “In the messaging around the various pledges that were made, states were not always that careful, and they often made the link between their contribution and Ukraine, thus creating this perception of politicization or selectivity in the court’s work.”

Washington, London Pave the Path for the ICC’s Khan

It was February 28, 2022 when Khan announced his intention to “proceed with opening an investigation into the Situation in Ukraine, as rapidly as possible.” Russia’s military operation inside Ukraine was only four days old at that point.

Days later, on March 2, 2022, the British Embassy in the Hague delivered Khan a referral co-signed by over 40 US and UK diplomats that urged him to investigate Russia for violations of the Rome Statute of the ICC.

That same day, Sen. Graham introduced a resolution in the US Senate calling for “Vladimir Putin and members of the Russian regime to be held accountable for the numerous acts of war, aggression, and human rights abuses that have been conducted under his watch.” Even as hawks like John Bolton warned that support for the ICC’s warrant could validate future legal actions against the US citizens, the resolution passed unanimously.

Just hours after issuing his resolution condemning alleged violations of international law, Graham took to Twitter to call for Putin’s assassination. “Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?” the senator pleaded on March 3, 2022. “The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out.”

Screenshot of the tweet of the The Most Disgusting White Trash Human Waste and the Terrorist War Monger Lindsey Graham

On April 3, 2022, Biden injected further momentum into the ICC’s campaign against Russia, branding Putin a “war criminal” and demanding he be hauled before “a war crimes trial.”

To further Biden’s objective, and by extension, that of the ICC, the US Department of State announced in May 2022 the establishment of a Conflict Observatory to gather open source evidence of alleged Russian war crimes and disseminate the findings “so that prosecutors can potentially even build criminal cases based on the material that is published.”

With American political winds at his back, Khan embarked on his first officially-curated tour of Ukraine.

Four Government-Guided Junkets to Ukraine

Khan made his inaugural visit to Ukraine on March 16, 2022, arriving first in Poland, where he met with Ukrainian migrants at a refugee reception center. He then crossed the Ukrainian border to confer in Lviv with Irina Venediktova, the Ukrainian Prosecutor-General, before holding a virtual meeting with Zelensky.

“We conduct our work with independence, impartiality and integrity. I have underlined that I wish to engage with all parties to the conflict,” Khan insisted.

His second visit came just weeks later, in April, when Venediktova shepherded him to the town of Bucha, which Russian troops had occupied for weeks before retreating at the start of that month. Ukrainian officials simultaneously led packs of Western journalists to local gravesites, presenting the burial grounds as evidence that Russia had carried out mass-scale executions in the town.

Images of corpses strewn across Bucha prompted Zelensky to accuse the Russian government of “genocide”, while US President Biden demanded that Putin appear before a war crimes tribunal. Biden’s request came despite his own Defense Department concession that it could not “independently and singlehandedly confirm accounts” of execution-style massacres committed by Russian forces in the town.

When Khan made his third visit to Ukraine in July 2022, he went to Kharkiv. Accompanied once again by Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Venediktova, he announced that the ICC planned to establish a field office in Kiev.

By that point, Zelensky’s government had outlawed 13 opposition parties, jailed his main presidential rival, shut down all critical media, banned the Russian patriarchate of the Orthodox Church and was on its way to arresting its top priest. Kiev was also disappearing and torturing political opponents and human rights advocates as part of an assassination campaign targeting Ukrainian officials accused of collaborating with Russia. Neo-Nazi militants had even videotaped themselves executing suspected Russian sympathizers.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military was escalating its attacks on civilian targets throughout the independent Republicans of Donetsk and Lugansk, bombing markets and in one instance, massacring a bus load of commuters with a Tochka-U missile. Ukrainian soldiers were also recorded executing unarmed Russian prisoners or war and shooting them in the knees.

But as Khan was junketed around Ukraine, he remained studiously disinterested in the documented abuses his official hosts were carrying out right under his nose. He had his eyes firmly fixed on Putin – and on the generous Western donations that propelled his mission.

Bottom Left: Karim Khan meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during his fourth trip to Ukraine this March. Bottom Right: Hollywood actors at the 2016 Oscars ceremony amplify the Obama administration’s Bring Back Our Girls campaign.

Bring Back Our Girls 2.o

This March, Khan made his fourth trip to Ukraine to, in his words, “deepen our engagement with national authorities.” In Lviv, he headlined a conference called “United for Justice.” Personally hosted by Zelensky, the stated purpose of the event was to “hold Russia’s top leadership accountable for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.”

In promotional material, the United For Justice conference focused on a seemingly new and emotionally potent issue: the supposed deportation of Ukrainian children by Russia, and the urgent need to bring them home.

The theme contained clear echoes of the Kony 2012 campaign launched against Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, who “kidnapped over 30,000 children to strengthen his army,” according to the now-disgraced online hucksters that initiated it. It also recalled the humanitarian interventionist “Bring Back Our Girls” hashtag campaign launched by former First Lady Michelle Obama and other celebrities to highlight the abduction of several hundred schoolgirls by the Islamist militia Boko Haram in northern Nigeria.

At United for Justice, it seemed NATO officials had landed on a theme guaranteed to pique the outrage of suggestible Western liberals.

Throughout the United for Justice conference, participants repeatedly leveled the allegation of mass youth deportations against Russia. “Small children are being kidnapped, brainwashed, and forced to become Russian citizens,” Dutch Foreign Minister Woepke Hoekstra claimed from the podium, denouncing “the systemic abduction of Ukrainian children.”

Merrick Garland, the US Attorney General, said after his visit to Lviv that he was “trying to find the people” to identify and “build evidence against” in Russia’s alleged “effort to forcibly deport children.”

During his own address, Khan linked a visit he made to an orphanage inside Ukraine to “allegations that we received that children have been deported outside Ukraine, into the territory of the Russian Federation.” He did not indicate that any children were taken from the orphanage he toured, however.

The ICC website currently features a photograph of Khan posing beside empty cribs in the Ukrainian orphanage he referenced in his speech – an apparent public relations ploy designed to suggest that Putin’s minions had snatched the young children from their beds. Though this orphanage was far from the front line, Khan sported a kevlar protective helmet for added effect.

Top Left: Karim Khan. Top Right: The ICC’s Karim Khan confers with Amal Clooney in April 2022 after appearing at the UN to drum up support for prosecuting Russian officials. Bottom: George and Amal Clooney (right) at a 2016 fundraiser they hosted for War Criminal Witch Hillary Clinton

Yet just months before Khan posed as the fatherly protector of Ukrainian children from the Kremlin’s predatory clutches, a child abuse scandal hit close to his own home.

In May 2022, Khan’s brother, Imran Ahmad Khan, resigned from his seat in the British House of Commons after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy. Ahmad Khan served 18 months in prison after a judge found him guilty of climbing into the boy’s bunk bed and groping his groin while attempting to ply him with gin and pornography. Following the conviction, a second man accused Ahmad Khan of abusing him as a minor.

While there is no indication Karim Khan provided any legal assistance to his convict brother, The Guardian noted that Ahmad Khan remains “close to his family, particularly his brothers Karim and Khaled, both lawyers, the former a prosecutor at the international criminal court in The Hague.”

Khan relies on State Department-sponsored research for “home run pitch”

During public speeches about Ukraine, Karim Khan often emphasizes his trips to battlegrounds like Bucha and Kharkiv, where the Kiev government accused Russia of committing grisly war crimes. However, when he introduced the ICC’s arrest warrant for Putin, his indictment did not mention any alleged Russian atrocities in either location. Instead, it focused entirely on the supposed deportation of Ukrainian children.

The ICC prosecutor’s warrant was clearly inspired by a Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) report that was funded and supported by the State Department’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations – an entity the Biden administration established in May 2022 to advance the prosecution of Russian officials.

That State Department-sponsored paper, as The Grayzone revealed, contained long passages contradicting the ICC’s prosecutor’s claims, as well as those its author made in media appearances. In a conversation with journalist Jeremy Loffredo, Yale HRL director Nathaniel Raymond stated that “a large amount” of the Russian youth camps his team researched were “primarily cultural education – like, I would say, teddy bear.”

When asked why his research team did not attempt to visit any programs inside Russia, Raymond said, “We’re persona non grata. We’re considered extensions of US intelligence by the Russians.”

At the same time, the Yale HRL director acknowledged his report was driven by State Department objectives, conducted under “a lot of pressure” from the US National Intelligence Council. He also conceded his team relied on the Pentagon’s US Indo-Pacific Command to “expand our satellite access in the Pacific Command to get the Siberian and eastern camps.”

When asked why Khan did not seek arrest warrants over allegations of Russian war crimes in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, which dominated Western media coverage for days, Raymond recalled a phone conversation he held with several foreign correspondents from the New York Times in March 2023:

“I was on the phone with the New York Times on Friday – the folks who did the big Bucha investigation, and they were like, basically, ‘Hey, we want to win a Pulitzer Prize on Bucha. We think it’s weird that Khan charged [the transfer of youth] and didn’t charge Bucha.’ And I said, ‘It would have been the worst thing imaginable.'”

Raymond explained the prosecutor’s logic: “If Khan had charged Bucha, it would have been catastrophic, because he would have been telegraphing weakness to the Russians. Because Bucha is a massacre. But it doesn’t mean that it is Rome Statute-level in terms of intentional systematic and command-and-control orders. To do that, you need the forensics… ballistics, you need the communications. And there’s no evidence the ICC has that.”

So, according to the Yale HRL director, Khan “started with a home run pitch, and basically said, we’re charging Putin on his own statements in a prima facie evidence-proof [case] on a conservative set of indictments. The transfer and deportation was lowball, he didn’t charge first degree murder.”

“For the New York Times,” Raymond continued, “they’re not going to be happy until Bucha gets charged with all the glitz of an ICC indictment. But [Khan would] be basically saying to Putin: ‘go throw a lieutenant colonel from the paratroopers out the window and you’re cool.'”

Besides providing Khan with the easiest route to an arrest warrant for Putin, the indictment also happened to pack the biggest propaganda punch, enabling the prosecutor to cast himself as the savior of Ukraine’s children.

To that end, he has received critical PR assistance from Amal Clooney, the international lawyer who gained fame as the wife of a Hollywood humanitarian interventionist who is one of the US Democratic Party’s most prolific fundraisers.

The Clooney Connection: Khan Collaborates with Hollywood Humanitarian Interventionists

In September 2021, weeks after assuming the role of ICC prosecutor, Khan appointed Amal Clooney as a special advisor to his investigation into atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan. When Russian forces entered Ukraine five months later, Clooney immediately shifted her focus, accepting a Ukrainian government invitation to join their “legal task force on accountability.”

Her collaborative relationship with Khan, which spanned at least a decade, has raised further questions about the ICC cheif’s pledge of “independence, impartiality and integrity.”

The Lebanese-born Amal Clooney first emerged as a global celebrity through her marriage to Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney, himself a prominent humanitarian interventionist who led the campaign to target Sudan’s government and its former president, Omar Bashir, with economic sanctions and genocide charges over its actions in Darfur. The US Israel lobby and then-US president George W. Bush heavily supported the crusade against Khartoum, with the latter threatening to send US troops to the oil-rich region to confront Bashir. For his part, Clooney invoked the memory of Auschwitz to advocate for UN military intervention in the region. Though the subsequent ICC warrant for Bashir’s arrest ultimately proved futile, Clooney’s campaign established his bonafides within the international human rights industry.

In 2016, George Clooney turned his focus to domestic politics, raising what he described as “an obscene amount of money” for the presidential campaign of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Entry costs ran up to $353,400 per couple at the pro-Hillary fundraisers hosted by George and Amal Clooney.

That same year, George and Amal leveraged their fame to establish the Clooney Foundation for Justice. Like the foundations established by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama after their presidencies, the Clooneys’ initiative relied on funding from liberal billionaires including Bill Gates and George Soros and forged partnerships with Microsoft and the UN. The Clooney Foundation for Justice also lists the US and UK government-sponsored intelligence proxy Bellingcat as an official partner.

The agenda of the Clooneys’ human rights outfit tracks closely with Washington’s foreign policy objectives. The group pushes human rights campaigns in countries where the US seeks regime change, while overlooking well-documented atrocities committed by the US and its allies, including Israel. In Venezuela, for example, which the US has targeted with sanctions and violent military coups in pursuit of regime change, the Clooney Foundation says it is assisting an ICC investigation into President Nicholas Maduro.

While overseeing her foundation, Amal Clooney won several British government appointments, including a two years stint as UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s Special Envoy for Media Freedom, and a role as a formal international legal advisor to the UK Attorney General.

Though Clooney once served on the legal team of jailed Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange, she said nothing when Hunt denounced her former client, defended his arrest, and endorsed the journalist’s extradition to the US.

Amal Clooney (left) and UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who appointed her as his Special Envoy on Media Freedom in 2019

In April 2022, the Clooney Foundation announced it would dispatch a team to Kiev to assist the Ukrainian government’s ICC investigation. That month, Amal Clooney appeared on a UN Human Rights Council panel alongside Khan, where she introduced the public to the allegations that Russia’s government was engaged in the mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children for the first time.

“Could it be that thousands of children are being forcibly deported to Russia? Could it be that teenage girls are being raped in the street in front of their family and their neighbors? …Unfortunately, the answer is yes,” Clooney proclaimed, providing no evidence to back her claim.

Two months later, Khan and Amal Clooney reunited for a meeting with Ukraine’s General Prosecutor, Irina Venediktova, at the European Union’s Eurojust side-event on prosecuting Russian officials.

Next, in September, Khan participated in another Eurojust “cooperation for accountability in Ukraine” side-event co-sponsored by the governments of Ukraine, Germany, Denmark and Netherlands. The ICC prosecutor moderated the panel alongside Amal Clooney and the Ukraine’s new prosecutor, Dmitri Kostrin. (President Zelensky dismissed Venediktova in July over “concerns of treason”).

Khan’s relationship with Amal Clooney began long before either gained international notoriety. Back in 2010, when she was still Amal Alamuddin, the lawyer contributed to a volume of essays which Khan co-edited. Khan has also blurbed a 2022 book Clooney co-authored with British lawyer Philippa Webb, calling it a “a tour de force.” (Like Clooney, Webb is a member of the Kiev-supported “legal task force on accountability for crimes committed in Ukraine”).

The website of the Clooney Foundation for Justice features Khan showering even more praise on Clooney, hailing her as a “a giant [who has] been willing to speak up even though many would rather [she] quietened down…[her] refusal to be muzzled must inspire us not to be muzzled [and her] refusal to lose hope must inspire us to march forward.”

The ICC prosecutor’s adoration for Clooney apparently inspired his decision to keep her as a special advisor to his office, even as she worked for the British and Ukrainian governments – both belligerents in a war with Russia.

The Grayzone queried the ICC prosecutor’s press officer about Khan’s close collaboration with Clooney, inquiring whether her work on behalf of the Ukrainian and British governments compromised Khan’s stated pledge to “independence, impartiality and integrity.” It received no reply.

The ICC’s Khan and UK Justice Secretary Dominic Raab in London, March 20, 2023

ICC Undercuts Negotiations with Indictment Timed For London Donor Conference

This March 20, exactly one week after issuing an arrest warrant for Putin, Khan appeared in London at an event sponsored by the British and Dutch governments to appeal to the Western states sponsoring the Ukraine proxy war for more money. There, he was seen yukking it up with British Justice Minister Dominic Raab and his counterparts from several NATO states and Ukraine.

The Guardian linked the timing of the Putin arrest warrant to the donor conference, noting, “Khan made his dramatic move against the Russian president last week ahead of a conference in London co-hosted by the UK and the Dutch government aimed at raising cash to fund the ICC’s war crimes investigatory work inside Ukraine.”

With justice ministers 40 UK and UK allies on hand, the confab raised $5 million for the ICC’s mission to prosecute Russian officials.

The donor conference just happened to take place three days after the 20th anniversary of the US and UK-led invasion of Iraq, an event that is estimated to have left over 1 million Iraqis dead. In 2020, the ICC dropped its investigation into British atrocities in Iraq.

Meanwhile, it has been over three months since Khan pledged to visit the Occupied Palestinian Territories to further the ICC’s dormant investigation into Israeli abuses. “Nobody knows if Khan has any plans to go to Palestine,” a lawyer representing Palestinian victims of Israeli violence lamented to The Grayzone. “It’s clear that it won’t be a priority.”

It is also clear that the ICC’s arrest warrant for Putin has planted another obstacle in the way of a negotiated end to the conflict in Ukraine. As a top Zelensky aide, Mykhailo Podalyak, stated on Twitter immediately after the court’s indictment of Putin, “There can be no negotiations with the current Russian elite.”

— The Editor-in-Chief of The Grayzone, Max Blumenthal is an Award-winning Journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah, Goliath, The Fifty One Day War, and The Management of Savagery. He has produced print articles for an array of publications, many video reports, and several documentaries, including Killing Gaza. Blumenthal founded The Grayzone in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America's state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions.

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dewitty1 · 3 years ago

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What Happened on April 4

(some..highlights)

1581 Francis Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard Golden Hind at Deptford

1655 The miraculous statue entitled the Infant of Prague is solemnly crowned by command of Cardinal Harrach

1789 1st US Congress begins regular sessions during George Washington's presidency at Federal Hall, NYC (ending 1791)

1814 Napoleon abdicates for the first time in favour of his son

1818 Congress decides on the US flag: 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars

1832 Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro

1841 Vice President John Tyler becomes the 10th President of the United States after the death of President William Henry Harrison

1850 City of Los Angeles incorporated

1865 General Robert E. Lee's Confederate army arrives at Amelia Courthouse, Amelia County, Virginia

1866 Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of St. Petersburg

1896 Announcement of gold discovery in Yukon

1900 Assassination attempt on Prince of Wales, later British King Edward VII when shot by Jean-Baptiste Sipido in protest over Boer war

1902 Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million

1912 Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet

1917 US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WWI

1944 French General Charles de Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists

1945 World War II: Soviet forces liberate Hungary from German occupation, establishing their own communist satellite state. This was celebrated as Liberation Day until 1989.

1945 The Holocaust: US forces liberate the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany, the first such camp to be liberated by the US Army

1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed in Washington, D.C.

1951 Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Argentine President Juan & Eva Perón in Buenos Aires

1958 1st march against nuclear weapons from London to Aldermaston, England, home of the Defence Ministry's Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)

1958 Cheryl Crane (14), daughter of actress Lana Turner, stabs to death organized crime figure Johnny Stompanato, her mother's boyfriend, in self-defense; crime later ruled a "justifiable homicide"

1960 Senegal declares independence from France

1964 Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks

1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1968 US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee

1969 - @dewitty1 is born!

1971 Stephen Sondheim's "Follies" opens at Winter Garden Theater, NYC; runs for 524 performances, then most expensive Broadway musical at the time

1973 World Trade Center, then the world's tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories). Later destroyed in 9/11 terrorist attacks.

1974 Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th in Cincinnati, facing Jack Billingham

1975 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800

#What Happened on April 4 #april 4 #historical events #history #april history

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agape-philo-sophia · 2 years ago

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NATO is the world’s largest terrorist organisation, the ‘North Atlantic Terror Organisation’. It is the biggest criminal, the biggest terrorist organisation in the world, which not only camouflaged its crimes in Serbia 20 years ago, but is still doing so today, all over the world, for example, right now in Venezuela; it has also conquered Ukraine.

Just remember my brothers and sisters, EVERYTHING the State creates, is for the purposes of division, fear and control.

When the documents on the secret negotiations in Switzerland become publicly available, when the whole world learns that NATO is the implementation of a Nazi project carried out with the participation of its National Socialist co-sponsors, the alliance will have no choice but to recognize itself as a criminal organization.

Nazi war criminals became high ranking commanders in NATO after WW2. For decades former Nazis and German war criminals served at the highest echelons of NATO. Most of them were highly decorated Nazis, who later served in top positions in the Western German army, and were later promoted to serve as Commander and Chief of all NATO forces in Europe.

The UK, US and their western partners (i.e. NATO) are one terrorist state. An empire who works in conjunction with it allies to maintain the game of war, profit, the divide and conquer of the local and global populace ensuring other criminal governments do not undermine their position of power and dominance.

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allacis-takova-blog · 5 years ago

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Illegal weapons make their way to terrorists, all thanks to corrupt arms dealers.

Terrorism is spreading rapidly due to corrupt businessmen like Tony Abi Saab. People like him are doing trades with terrorists and obtaining a hefty sum of profits through their illegal businesses. To stop illicit arms dealers from selling weapons to the terrorists or creating the third world war situation, the US initiated a special treaty called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was formed to strengthen the wrecked economy of Europe after the Civil war. NATO consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe who pledged for collective defense on the attackers of the members. However, some of the members are violating the protocols of the Treaty and indulging in criminal activities internationally.

The US intelligence team found arms and weapons from terrorists in Syria which were manufactured in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. They also found out the arms dealer named Tony Abi Saab who was behind the supplying of weapons to the rebel groups. Tony Abi Saab, a Lebanon-native, armed terrorist groups with hi-tech weapons and guns in exchange of hefty tax-free profits.

Brescia Middle East is Tony’s international arms and weapons dealing company that launders the crime money obtained from the terrorists after doing business with them. Tony was indicted in 2011 by the US Army for defrauding them of 5 million dollars in contracts fraud, money laundering, and running ghost companies such as K5 Global, SIMAINT, Brixia, Bennet-Fouch, and G2 Armory.

Tony has expanded his business of trafficking weapons around the world, some of them are in Italy-- ARMERIA AMELIO GAMBA Srl, INTESA SANPAOLO S.P.A., Benelli Armi, franchi division, Fiocchi munizione, Armeria brignoli silvio & c snc, BLS; in Germany-- Umarex gmbh & co KG; in France-- Noble france sa; in Turkey-- Osmanli Arms, ISTANBUL and KONYA, KOMANDO AV SAN TIC LTD, ATA Av tufekleri, in Bangladesh-- Emran arms; in Georgia-- Kula Ltd., Tiblisi; in Russia-- LOBASTOV IVAN, Baikal Ltd, Izhevsk city; in Bulgaria—Arsenal; in Czech Republic--MSN and CSG Group; in Ukraine--Berkut Ltd; in Brasil—Condor, to expand the illegal business of Arms trafficking.

#terrorism #weapons #tonyabisaab #lebanon #bresciamiddleeast

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marymosley · 4 years ago

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Protection of Civilians under International Humanitarian Law

‘War, as it becomes more and more total, annuls the differences which formerly existed between armies and civilian populations in regard to exposure to injury and danger.’[1]

The Protection of Civilians (PoC) in armed conflict has its roots in 18th century International Humanitarian Law (IHL) protection concepts put forward by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).In 2014, we celebrated the 150 years of adoption of the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, 1864.[2] It was one of the first IHL treaties that tried to regulate and limit the conduct of warfare. A recent addition to this is the Additional Protocol III, 2005 to the 1949 Geneva Conventions.

The adoption of 1949 Convention was a complicated and difficult process; however, it was able to enshrine the humanitarian ideal of ensuring the protection of civilians in a legal instrument.[3]

The nineteenth century IHL treaties referred only marginally to civilians[4]; however, the twentieth century witnessed a shift in the pattern, with PoC taking a more central role in the International Laws.

During a war or armed conflict, most victims turn out to be civilians. Thus, it becomes the cornerstone of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) to protect these civilians. This protection isn’t limited to their life, but also extend to the protection of their public and private property. Some particularly vulnerable groups, like women, children and the displaced are provided with special care by the IHL.

A comprehensive legal framework has been established and guidelines have been set up to ensure that non-combatants remain protected from the military operations, considering that these guidelines are carefully implemented from both the sides.

However, violations of such guidelines and IHL have often taken up brutal forms of death, injury, rape and forcible displacement of the civilians. Apart from this, they also have to face situations like hunger, malnutrition and conflict-induced increases in diseases.

As we observe a surge in modern day conflicts, the increase in civilians caught in the crossfire cannot be ignored. This leads to a legacy of socio-economic challenges that are faced by the victims as well as their families, for a long time after the hostilities end. It wouldn’t be wrong to state that this leaves an ever-lasting scar on the life of these people.

A rapid development in this regard is necessary to protect these civilians from the hostilities of warfare. One of the major barriers to implementation of such laws is the severe lack of respect for the rules by parties during times of war.

Analysis

Sir John F. Kennedy quoted that, ‘It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war’.

Various countries involve in unfair war practices that include surprise attacks inside the borders of another country, surgical strikes and bombardments on civilian areas, to either take over the land of other countries or to prove their strength and induce fear.

The United Nations (UN) is constantly working to develop a mechanism to ensure PoC and has also developed it as one of its potential benchmarks, to determine the success of peacekeeping mission. This concept is gaining importance both in the international as well as regional organisation associated with crisis management.

For example, in NATO’s (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) operations in Afghanistan and Libya, the significance of PoC became a specific objective rather than a counter-insurgency strategy.[5]

The plans of regional organisation are constantly being scrutinized to ensure that state militaries comply with the IHL principles and place emphasis on the well-being of non-combatants. Even the African Union along with the UN peacekeeping missions have extended their role beyond IHL obligations to establish secure environment along with positive civil-military relations, and differentiate between combatants and non-combatants (civilians).

The main issue arises in relation with the translation of thematic discussion about PoC and IHL to concrete measures to mitigate the suffering of civilians in times of war and armed conflicts. And even though civilians are not directly involved in attacks, they fall prey to its consequences and after effects.

We have an extensive legislation when it comes to PoC. However, the problem for around past 50 years, has been applications of these legislations. A key challenge is the accountability for gross violations in this regard. Countries are often seen violating the rules and guidelines in relation to PoC, but no significant action has been taken yet, in order for it to function as deterrent and prevent other countries from involving in such practices.

Moreover, many countries view the intentional killing of civilians as a method of warfare and thus, violations of IHL in a considerable amount of cases is neither accidental nor a result of inadequate efforts to minimize incidental harm.

The pragmatic nature of IHL is visible in its constant efforts to balance the military necessity with the humanitarian considerations.[6] Unfortunately, a certain level of harm/damage to the civilians is considered ‘acceptable’ while analyzing the hostile war-like situations as it is still not practically viable to imagine war and war-like situations with zero casualties.

The IHL clearly provides that civilians, under the power of enemy forces must, in all circumstances, be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction. It also states that they must be protected against all forms of violence and degrading treatment, including murder and torture. Moreover, in case of prosecution, such civilians are entitled to a fair trial affording all essential judicial guarantees. However, it is very unlikely that the countries involved in conflict treat these civilians in a humane manner. To the contrary, it is not an unusual site to find war prisoners facing hostile treatment and severe torture if they are captivated. Also, a trial itself is a far-fetched dream that most of them are never able to see and even if they do, the chances of it being a fair trial are very low.

Some major violations, in the past few years are listed below:

Myanmar’s atrocities against ethnic Rohingya Muslims

United States’ retreat from Human Rights Council

Repression of Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang

Syrian Civil War

Israel-Palestine Conflict

Serbia-Kosovo Dispute

Peshawar School Massacre

However, this list is not exhaustive in nature and various other cases of severe atrocities also exist. Many civilians in or around the area of conflict either succumb to these atrocities or have to migrate to other places, in many cases to other countries to seek shelter. They not only suffer from the trauma of leaving their motherland, but also have to face conditions of sheer poverty and are often not accepted by many countries. Also, in most of the cases, they aren’t recognized as the citizens of a country and have no access to the rights and benefits available.

The choice of weapon plays a crucial role when considering protection of civilians in an urban environment. The use of high explosive munitions, such as artillery and weapons that have the capacity to destroy a large area should be kept away from civilian areas.

The UN secretary-general, in his 2009 report on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, showed concern over use of explosives in densely-populated areas as it might have a severe and indiscriminate humanitarian impact on the civilians killed or injured by the damage, along with the loss to infrastructure.[7]

Almost 60 years have passed since the adoption of the Geneva Conventions, and still deliberate attacks on and abuses against civilians during armed conflict are widespread. It wouldn’t be incorrect to refer to them as an inevitable by-product of war.

In various recent on-going conflicts, civilians have been subjected to indiscriminate attacks. It is a common practice states blame such attacks on the civilian population on the terrorist organisations or non-state actors. However, these attacks are not only the result of non-state actors or terrorist organisations, but also are preferred by state related actors.

Few atrocities that these civilians are subjected to include:

war-crimes like genocide

ethnic cleansing

forced displacement

indiscriminate attacks

sexual harassment and violence – including rape and sexual slavery

unlawful recruitment and use of children as soldiers

killing and maiming of children, etc

The lack of respect towards such civilians is one of the major concerns of recent times that leads to the adoption of such brutish measures as mentioned above. In USA, State and federal prisons continue to hold over 2 million people, with another 4.5 million on probation or parole.[8]

The Global Protection Cluster (GPC) is currently looking into the situation and is developing a guidance note to address the challenges faced by humanitarians and peacekeeping forces in interacting the military actors.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has devised 5 guidelines to ensure PoC in conflict zones around the world:[9]

Parties to conflict should avoid the use of explosive weapons in populated areas

The UN Security Council should not accept attacks on children as the “new normal” of armed conflict

States should ensure that civilians in conflict zones can access medical care and humanitarian assistance and enable humanitarian and health workers to work in safety

States should ensure better protection and assistance of people forcibly displaced within their country by upholding their human rights

States should condition their arms exports on respect for international humanitarian and human rights law

Various other such remedies and solutions have been suggested theoretically; however, we are still finding it difficult to incorporate these in the practical scenario.

Therefore, a shift of focus is needed to ensure that the proposed laws, regulations and guidelines are strictly adhered to, accountability of States in matters of violation should be increased, prosecution in cases of serious violations of IHL should be ensured, remedial and reparative mechanisms should be devised for victims and comprehensive strategies should be adopted to enhance the compliance with IHL, both by the state as well as non-state actors.

Also, we should focus on establishing peace by preventing situations where armed conflict can arise. Peaceful connections between the States will not only help us develop a better world for living, but will also help us secure and preserve various resources that are used in wars and conflicts each year thereby enhancing the quality of life.As quoted by Sir H.G. Wells, ‘If we don’t end wars, wars will end us’.

Conclusion

The IHL is a comprehensive framework of laws that aims at providing protection to civilians in midst of conflict. However, some fingers have been pointed out towards the Geneva law in recent times. Thus, it becomes mandatory to establish a more effective compliance mechanism to prevent violation of IHL.

Also, a sense of ownership needs to be induced in all state and non-state actors, to respect the rights of the civilians and ensure that no harm is caused to them irrespective of their motives and beliefs. A broader approach that entails integrated response to threats by identifying the trends that are giving rise to humanitarian concerns along with development of punitive for PoC. Thus, it becomes a common responsibility of the human kind as a whole to adopt and assume their responsibilities to protect and respect civilians during an armed conflict.

[1]Statement of President Max Huber, quoted in Jean S Pictet (ed), Oscar M Uhler, and Henri Coursier

[2] Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, (adopted 22 August 1864, in force from 22 June 1865 to 16 August 1966) 11 LNTS 440.

[3]https://ift.tt/38DofNq

[4] Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, see n 2, which was agreed to by sixteen States during a diplomatic conference held in Switzerland on 22 August 1864.

[5] https://ift.tt/3gCP2w6

[6] Geoffrey S Corn, Victor Hansen, M Christopher Jenks, Richard Jackson, Eric Talbot Jensen, and James A Shoettler, The Law of Armed Conflict: An Operational Approach (New York: Wolters Kluwer Law and Business, 2012) 118.

[7] UN Security Council, Report of the Secretary-General on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, 29 May 2009, S/2009/277, para 36.

[8] https://ift.tt/3iNtAXk

[9] https://ift.tt/38DogRu

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snezhnnlevche-blog · 5 years ago

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NATO has failed to control the smuggling of Arms and weapons in conflict land

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation or NATO needs to address violators of arms trade law, which are mostly from European countries. They are a huge exporter of guns and weapons in conflict regions or to human rights abusers like Tony Abi Saab.

A study on Arms trafficking estimates that almost 48 percent of the weapons used in the war zones, to be specific Syria and Iran, are imported from the Central and Eastern European countries. The problem is that the violence in many Middle Eastern countries is fuelled for either political or personal benefits.

Countries like Afghanistan, Syria, and Iran have already suffered enough from human instigated wars, it's time to halt the misery and sufferings of the people living there. International military troops deployed in these war-torn countries are in a continuous fight with the rebel groups. 17 years have passed since the United States began the war on terrorism in Afghanistan, still, they aren't rooted out completely. Similar is the situation in Syria and Iran—terrorists have disintegrated after military attacks but are effective in several regions in tit-bits.

The main reason for terrorists surviving in these countries for this long is weapon smuggling. Arms dealers are defrauding the Army and taking advantage of the conflicts to earn profit from the rebel groups. Tony Abi Saab, is a constant name who has been troubling the federal government by doing business deals with terrorist organizations. He is the native of Lebanon and his company Brescia Middle East deals in arms and weapons with the foreign military and illegally with terrorists.

Brescia Middle East launders the crime money obtained by Tony through his business deals with the terrorist groups. Later on, the hard cash is smuggled and distributed amongst the crime partners, that is, the shell companies spread all over Europe and the Middle East. This way Tony prevents his illegal business from abruption. Brixia, one of Tony's shell companies, produced spare parts for weapons and sold it in Syria's black market. According to the reports in doguerogulu.com, Tony supplied pistols and guns to Daesh through Turkey.

The avarice businessman executed fraud against the US Army of 5 million dollars and smuggled the weapons through porous borders of war-stricken countries. Despite knowing the weapons would be used against men, women, and children of Syria, Afghanistan, and Iran, he still armed terrorists for his greed for money. Tony was astute while supplying weapons, he used fake user end certificates on his products and easily delivered them to the rebel groups.

#TAS #BME #Tony Abi Saab #Lebanon

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terentijavluhinfan-blog · 5 years ago

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Illegal weapons make their way to terrorists, all thanks to corrupt arms dealers.

#tonyabisaab #bresciamiddleeast #lebanon #k5global #simaint

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angrycollectordaze-me-blog · 6 years ago

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Essay代写：NATO counter-terrorism strategy

下面为大家整理一篇优秀的essay代写范文- NATO counter-terrorism strategy，供大家参考学习，这篇论文讨论了北约反恐战略。自冷战结束以来，世界安全形势发生了巨大的变化，传统意义上的军事威胁相对减弱，而恐怖主义等非传统威胁正不断增强。北约的整体战略也就此作出了相应的调整，对恐怖主义问题的关注在其战略中的地位逐步上升。尤其是“9・11”事件后，反击恐怖主义在一定程度上成为了北约议事日程中最紧迫的议题。这一变化反映在北约不断修订的战略文件中，也体现在北约的政策实践中。在某种意义上甚至可以说，对恐怖主义的反击重塑了北约。

NATO was founded in the early cold war, its main purpose is to Western Europe at that time then forms a military alliance with the United States, to jointly prevent the resurrection of German militarism and the threat of Soviet power in eastern Europe, and NATO during the cold war the main strategic concern is how to prevent the Soviet union and its satellites can launch a large-scale armed invasion of Western Europe. During the cold war, NATO issued four guiding strategic documents to guide the overall defense strategy of NATO. On the whole, these strategic documents, though slightly different, are guided by the basic idea of preparing for a full-scale war with the Soviet bloc. And because NATO lacks sufficient confidence in its ground defense capabilities deployed in central Europe, nuclear weapons will be the main source of leverage for the Soviet military on the ground. From a defensive perspective, NATO has also envisaged possible engagement with the Soviet bloc in areas such as the Middle East or the far east, but its focus has been primarily on Western Europe. Other types of military activity, including counter-terrorism, were not of concern to NATO at the time.

Western Europe at that time there have been some domestic terrorist activities, including striking is the national separatism and political radicalism stance of paramilitaries and parties, such as Spain's eta, the Irish republican army, Italy's red brigades, the federal republic of Germany in the red army faction terrorist, etc. For a long time, people tend to think of these activities is not too much attention on NATO level, its influence is mainly limited to within countries, to blow is mainly composed of governments. However, after the end of the cold war, with some parties especially former officials publicly acknowledged in the news media, some countries parliament announced various surveys and survey results, journalists and historians intervention of relevant investigation and research, a surprising truth began to disclosure: in the fight against communist expansion, which is dominated by the NATO in the United States to implement the strategy of "tension". Benefited from the cia funding support, and Western Europe have been setting up a secret organization, which USES the very means in creating tension as the frontier of the cold war western society, will oppose terrorism against terrorist activities focus on the political left, the far-right secret organization of terrorism crimes committed referred to each other, or indirectly encouraged the far-left forces of terrorism, aims to break the political authority of the left, to prevent the rise of them. In spite of the NATO and the exact relationship between Western Europe during the cold war, terrorism, people are still looking forward to more direct first-hand archival evidence, but the existing materials showed that cannot be ruled out NATO and the complex connection between terrorism and other illegal activities. This shows from a side, terrorism and counter - terrorism itself, have a strong policy tool.

The collapse of the Soviet union in the late 1980s and early 1990s led to the complete dissolution of the Warsaw pact group, which had long been in conflict with NATO, and even the Soviet union itself was on the verge of collapse. NATO's military strategy of using the Soviet union and the Warsaw pact as its main imaginary enemies has been shaken. Along with the further development of the Soviet union domestic situation in eastern Europe, NATO leadership gradually felt across Europe and even the world's strategic situation in fundamental changes, to maintain the original strategy has seem inappropriate.

At the London summit in July 1990, NATO leaders agreed on the need for major adjustments in the organization's basic strategic thinking and mission. NATO issued a new strategic guidance document in November 1991. In its overall assessment of the strategic environment, it believes that the threat from eastern Europe has faded with the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the dissolution of the Warsaw treaty organization. And because liberalism ideology and market economic system, the gradual expansion of the iron curtain on both sides of the political division has gradually offset for a long time, thus fundamentally shaken to the foundation of military confrontation. Due to the development of the European Community and the success of a series of arms control treaties between eastern and Western Europe, the level of military confrontation on both sides of the iron curtain has also been reduced to a certain extent. And crucially, step by step as Soviet troops evacuated from eastern Europe, NATO has been worried about the invasion of the Western Europe could happen is unlikely, may be facing security threats in the future is uncertain. Of course, because the former Soviet union still has a large stockpile of nuclear and conventional weapons, it will have a significant impact on the security of Europe and NATO. Ethnic conflicts and territorial disputes in central and eastern Europe will gradually become a major threat to the security of NATO members, especially at a time when such conflicts will involve external powers. NATO is also looking to the south of the region, west Asia and north Africa, whose value was underlined by the gulf war of 1990. In addition, NATO has begun to focus on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the threat of terrorism. But due to the change of the situation in Europe and the world at this time also in the process of happening, the end result is not very clear, so NATO of the strategic adjustment is relatively more obscure, no future missions and threats to make very clear demarcation.

The evolution of the European situation became clearer in the 1990s. Most eastern European countries have undergone massive democratization and market economy reforms, and relations with NATO have become increasingly close. As early as the 1994 summit, NATO decided to develop a "partnership for peace" to strengthen relations with central and eastern European countries in preparation for the next round of expansion. On the one hand, Russia was plunged into a prolonged recession and political turmoil, and its military strength was greatly weakened by a lack of funds and a loss of personnel. For NATO, the threat from the east is diminishing. On the other hand, many countries in central and eastern Europe have been caught in ethnic and religious conflicts due to the sudden openness and intensification of the complex ethnic conflicts that have been repressed. In particular, a series of civil wars in the former Yugoslavia have had a rather negative impact on security in the region. NATO is also involved in the civil war in bosnia and herzegovina and the kosovo conflict. It in the former Yugoslavia area geographically adjacent to central and eastern Europe are required to execute tasks to give necessary support, coupled with the transition of these nations have already applied to join the organization the favorable situation, prompting them to finally clear the eastward expansion of the strategic thinking.

At the NATO Washington summit in April 1999, the leaders unanimously adopted a new NATO strategy. The strategy confirmed the NATO during the cold war for their valuable contribution to the maintenance of peace in Europe and clearly believes that the threat of the cold war has disappeared, replaced by a new, more uncertain threat. NATO has stressed that it will pay more attention to instability in the Balkans. In fact, NATO is now not only highly involved in the bosnian crisis, but also launching massive air strikes against the south alliance during the kosovo war. This suggests that the most serious real threat to NATO at the time was political instability and economic recession in central and eastern Europe, and that its involvement in the region was deepening. At the time, terrorism was a concern, but it was not a priority for NATO operations. Since then peacekeeping operations in the former Yugoslavia have not been strictly counter-terrorism operations, but their characteristics are similar to those of counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations. Overall, the 1991 and 1999 NATO strategy papers were relatively vague and lacked a clear understanding and emphasis on future threats, especially terrorist threats.

In 2001 the outbreak of the "911" incident of NATO in the post-cold war era has the most significant influence. Looking back on the trajectory of NATO after the incident, it can be said that it has prompted a fundamental change in the attitude of NATO on the issue of terrorism. In the day after the "911" incident, on September 12, 2001, NATO's decision, in article 5 of the performance of the north Atlantic treaty commitments about the group's collective self-defence, clearly shows the other member states and the United States united, determined by military means to fight terrorism. The alliance mechanism for cross-border flights was activated. NATO traditionally focused on is the European members of the security issues, the United States is more as a provider of security rather than consumers, yet it was the attacks against NATO and the strongest military power around the world, the United States. NATO's original intention is to rely on U.S. forces to defend Europe, article 5 of the results of the north Atlantic treaty was first put them into practice is to support the United States, this is unexpected events. And will attack from non-state actors as meet the requirements of the Washington treaty "armed attack", to the practice of collective self-defense, is beyond the respond as to the traditional "military invasion" understanding.

While NATO clearly show the positive support counterterrorism operations in the United States and the attitude of the start of the war in Afghanistan, but the United States in the war didn't make the organization become its counter-terrorism rely on the force at the core, in fact, the United States has formed a more meets the needs of their union. Its approach to NATO can be summed up as: we will contact you if we need to. Because of the long gap in military spending between the United States and NATO's European members, it has been difficult for the latter to give much substantive support to subsequent U.S. military operations abroad. The sum total of NATO's European members troops than the United States army, but due to long time in significant difference between the national defense expenditure, lack of European troops and American army the same global information gathering and strike capability, strategic project gap is obvious. Especially American combat operations in Afghanistan later geographically and far to Europe, the main operational way also is given priority to with air attacks over a long distance, this is not good at European armies. So basically the main military operations at all stages of the war in Afghanistan by the U.S. army alone, in addition to directly support the British operations, other NATO members only by airborne early warning and control system for the aerial reconnaissance and command provides certain help. In addition, European countries have deployed more naval forces in the Mediterranean to protect their maritime transport routes. In short, NATO's involvement in the main stages of the American-led war in Afghanistan is awkward. This was first because it launched the collective defence clause in response not to a previously feared mass invasion of its member states' territory, but to an unexpected emergency. Moreover, the huge gap in us and European military capabilities has left NATO's support for us operations at a very limited level. It is precisely because NATO's role in the main combat phase of the war in Afghanistan is not obvious that the decline of NATO is frequent.

However, as the end of the war in Afghanistan main battle phase, the taliban regime in Afghanistan, was overthrown by basic nationwide assistance provided by the NATO in Afghanistan is becoming increasingly important for the United States. Small, elite special forces and large air strikes may be enough to defeat an opponent on the ground, but they cannot afford the long-term task of maintaining stability in Afghanistan. The latter requires large ground forces, and sending European troops in the name of NATO can reduce the pressure on American troops on personnel. In January 2002, the United Nations adopted resolution 1386 in support of the establishment of an international security assistance force in the Kabul region. The force was made up of volunteer to participate in Afghanistan country, but because of this way doesn't adapt to the development of the situation, since NATO in August 2003 to take over the command of the international security assistance force in Afghanistan. In lO of the same year, the UN security council decided to extend the mandate of the force throughout Afghanistan. NATO's military operations have gone well beyond its defensive zones, but the subsequent terrorist attacks on Spain and Britain have made it all the more plausible to carry out the mission in NATO's name. The international security assistance force is mainly composed of other NATO Allies, the United States is only limited participation, at the same time the United States also separate leadership "operation enduring freedom", so in Afghanistan have two parallel operation.

In March 2003, the United States launched the invasion of Iraq. The war has not received unanimous support from NATO members because it is not closely linked to terrorist attacks. The United States has formed a coalition of countries that have volunteered for the war, but NATO has not been directly involved in the Iraq war. But, persuaded by the United States, NATO later provided personnel training for the war in Iraq. NATO is also widely involved in a range of international peacekeeping operations. As the war in Afghanistan is gradually stepped into the stage of mainly clear remnants of the enemy forces of counter-insurgency, America's military advantage is limited by the asymmetric warfare means, war also evolved towards increasingly stalemate. The Afghan war has increasingly resembled a classic guerrilla scenario. The United States and NATO found themselves in a situation where they could not be defeated, but where they could not eliminate their opponents completely. Since 2005, tensions in what had been a relatively calm Afghanistan have grown, with the taliban increasingly attacking civilians and foreign troops. Roadside bomb attacks have become its main means. It was a barbarous and difficult way to prevent it, and the attackers had no clear military purpose but to reduce the morale of the enemy by causing as many casualties as possible. NATO forces, Afghan government forces and local civilians have all suffered heavy casualties.

Taliban forces to enhance the main reasons are: first, the leadership has not been destroyed, just return to Pakistan's western mountains, which can keep the command of the action; Second, can hide the taliban in Pakistan's western mountains to save power, there have been large Numbers of pushtun inhabitants live, can provide effective shelter and supplies for the taliban, but U.S. and NATO cannot direct access to the region to clear, this is to give up the opportunity to attack opponents nests, and simply waiting for the enemy attack at favorable timing turned into an endless battles of defense; In addition, the 2003 war in Iraq, launched by the United States, intensified anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world and facilitated more support for the taliban.

In an effort to combat the more powerful and active taliban, international security assistance forces began moving toward southern Afghanistan in late 2005 to fight directly against the taliban's remnants. American troops to the participation of the international security assistance force began to increase, combat becomes more intense, the number of foreign troops in Afghanistan has increased rapidly, from the rapid rise of more than ten thousand people at the beginning of 2002 to 2007, more than forty thousand people. In addition, the international security assistance force has become the main force in the war, and the U.S. military has also started to participate in relevant operations. In 2006, the unified command was established between operation enduring freedom and the international security assistance force to coordinate their operations. As security has deteriorated, divisions within NATO over the operation have grown.

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Saudi Arabia Hopes U.S. Will Not Recognize Jerusalem as Capital of Israel (Reuters) Saudi Arabia has expressed hope the United States would not recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and warned such a decision would have serious implications, state news agency SPA reported on Tuesday.

U.N. Rights Boss Says Can’t Rule Out Crime of Genocide Against Rohingya (Reuters) The United Nations’ top human rights official said on Tuesday Rohingyas were continuing to flee northern Rakhine state in Myanmar, where he said the crime of genocide by state forces could not be ruled out against the Muslim minority.

Turkey’s Erdogan Says Could Break Off Ties With Israel Over Jerusalem (Reuters) President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday Turkey could go as far as breaking off diplomatic ties with Israel if the United States formally recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a move he said would be a “red line” for Muslims.

Philippines Halts Sale of Dengue Vaccine as Sanofi Downplays Risk (Reuters) The Philippines has ordered French drugmaker Sanofi to stop the sale, distribution and marketing of its Dengvaxia dengue vaccine in the country after the company last week warned it could worsen the disease in some cases.

After Brexit Deal Crumbles, Britain’s May to Speak to Northern Irish Party (Reuters) Prime Minister Theresa May and other British officials will speak to Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) on Tuesday after a tentative deal on Brexit with the European Union over the border with Ireland was dashed at the last minute.

Top Al-Qaeda Leader Killed in Eastern Afghanistan (Reuters) A top leader of militant group al-Qaeda was killed along with 80 people in a joint military operation by Afghan army, intelligence and NATO-led forces, the South Asian nation’s intelligence service said on Tuesday.

Former Georgian President Saakashvili Detained in Kiev (Reuters) Ukraine detained former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Tuesday on suspicion of assisting a criminal organisation, the SBU state security service said, an offence that could land him in prison for up to five years.

Russia Designates Radio Free Europe and Voice of America as ‘Foreign Agents’ (Reuters) Russia designated Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and Voice of America (VOA) as “foreign agents” on Tuesday, a move aimed at complicating their work in retaliation for what Moscow says is unacceptable U.S. pressure on Russian media.

Rebel Honduran Police Ignore Curfew Order, Election Protesters Rejoice (Reuters) Hondurans spilled into the streets of the capital on Monday night, banging pots and pans and joining rebel police in defiance of a curfew imposed after a presidential election that was heavily criticized by the Organization of American States.

Germans See Trump as Bigger Problem Than North Korea or Russia (Reuters) Germans see U.S. President Donald Trump as a bigger challenge for German foreign policy than authoritarian leaders in North Korea, Russia or Turkey, according to a survey by the Koerber Foundation.

Israel Slams EU for Cooperating With Anti-Occupation Group (AP) Israel is lashing out at the European Union for its “patronizing” approach of marking International Human Rights Day with an exhibit critical of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.

Turkish Academics on Trial for Issuing Declaration for Peace (AP) A group of academics from universities in Istanbul are standing trial on charges of engaging in “terrorist propaganda” for signing a declaration calling for an end to hostilities against Kurdish rebels in Turkey’s southeast.

Yemen’s Chaos Deepens After Rebels Killed Ex-President Saleh (AP) The killing of Yemen’s longtime strongman and ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh by the country’s Shiite rebels as their alliance crumbled amid street clashes in the capital, Sanaa, has thrown the nearly three-year civil war into unpredictable new chaos.

US, Russia Deep-Search Vessels Join Hunt for Argentine Sub (AP) U.S and Russian ships carrying remotely operated vehicles capable of deep seafloor searches are joining other vessels hunting for an Argentine submarine that went missing in the South Atlantic 19 days ago, the navy said Monday.

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A History of John McCain's Calls for War Around the World

http://uniteordiemedia.com/a-history-of-john-mccains-calls-for-war-around-the-world/ https://uniteordiemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Cypher-on-McCain-600x244.jpg A History of John McCain's Calls for War Around the World July 21, 2017 Jim Carey Washington (GPA) – Earlier this week notorious war hawk US Senator John McCain (R-Az) was diagnosed with brain cancer. While the liberal and conservative establishments are sending their regards, Geopolitics Alert instead compiled a list of reasons why we don’t care...

July 21, 2017 Jim Carey

Washington (GPA) – Earlier this week notorious war hawk US Senator John McCain (R-Az) was diagnosed with brain cancer. While the liberal and conservative establishments are sending their regards, Geopolitics Alert instead compiled a list of reasons why we don’t care about McCain.

The list is, of course, a history of all the instances McCain has called for US-led intervention around the world. There’s obviously a long history here, so Geopolitics Alert has compiled the largest examples from Europe to Asia. We’ll start with the obvious wars first.

Afghanistan and Iraq

Obviously every US Senator (besides California’s Barbara Lee) voted to give President George W. Bush the power to invade Afghanistan following the events of September 11th. However, McCain wasn’t happy with just moving to invade Afghanistan. No, he had other targets on his mind as early as the day after the towers fell.

Despite McCain’s claim in 2014 that “the Iraq war probably wouldn’t have happened” if he had won the 2000 Republican primary and the general election, this assertion seems ridiculous. On September 12th, 2001, McCain appeared on MSNBC presenting an extensive list of countries he felt were providing a “safe harbor” to groups like al Qaeda. This list, of course, included Iraq and several other nations that appear later on this list.

Syria

Another country on that 2001 list (of course) was Syria. Now, the Bush regime may have never gotten a chance to continue toppling Mideast countries (thanks to the failure in Iraq and the exposure of that war being sold on lies). But McCain seemingly never lost sight of his hatred for Bashar Al-Assad.

Related: Syrian Rebels ‘Kill Hundreds Of Prisoners’ Captured During Infighting

Shortly after the Arab Spring “broke out” in Syria, McCain – and his constant partner in war crimes Sen. Lindsey Graham – quickly found communication channels with the “Syrian opposition.” Just a few short months after the US endorsed protests in Syria (even having their ambassador attend), McCain and Graham began calling for arms to start flowing to the Free Syrian Army and other “rebel” groups.

Libya

McCain’s plans for Syria never quite worked the way he wanted, but he probably should’ve known they would never yield a positive result. If McCain didn’t want to look at Iraq to prove that point, he had another more recent example he could’ve used: the NATO intervention in Libya.

It was less than a year before McCain wanted to arm Syrian takfiris that he had supported with the bombing and no fly zones in Libya. McCain even wanted tougher actions against the country. Which has now become an anarchic Wild West that’s home to all sorts of horrors from the Islamic State to a new slave trade.

West and Central Africa

McCain is also a champion of the “war on terror” in other parts of Africa. While McCain hasn’t directly supported terrorists in some countries in Africa, he still has called for more US intervention across the continent.

This list includes countries dealing with Islamic insurgencies, such as Mali. McCain has also called for plans like “deploying Special Forces” to rescue girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria and intervention in Sudan, where McCain and his wife have invested money for some time.

Iran

Another country on the list of hated nations initially put forth by Bush undersecretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz, and also another long time target of McCain is of course Iran.

Although McCain has always said “he prays” there will never be at war with Iran, the man incessantly calls for it and even jokes about bombing the country when he feels the mood is right. The truth of the matter is, McCain’s positions towards Iran are so hostile that even flagship neoconservative institutions like the Cato Institute think he is too hawkish.

Bosnia and Kosovo

But McCain isn’t satisfied with just backing Salafi jihadists in the traditional Middle East and North African theaters. He’s also backed violent radicals across the fringes of Europe. This trend actually started in the mid-1990’s when McCain was a vocal supporter of then president Bill Clinton’s war in Bosnia.

Related: The Destruction Of Yugoslavia: A Template For America’s Future Policy

Many of the Muslims traveling to Bosnia joining the mujahideen there have joined groups like IS in recent years. And IS flags can occasionally be seen in the Sunni areas of Bosnia now. McCain was still backing potential Takfiri movements, recently accusing Russia of interfering in local affairs, and calling for more US intervention in the country.

McCain made similar decisions when he advocated US intervention in Kosovo in the late 90’s. In the Kosovo conflict, McCain backed the Kosovo Liberation Army: a genocidal jihadist organization with ties to Al Qaeda under Osama Bin Laden.

Ukraine

Don’t be fooled into thinking that McCain only supports jihadists in Eastern Europe though! He also backs the overt Nazis acting as death squads for Kiev in the ongoing Ukrainian conflict.

Related: Nikki Haley Perpetuates Lies About Ukraine

This, of course, started in 2014, but McCain has continued to pledge support for Kiev’s crimes in the Donbass region to this day. This is all par for the course in McCain’s larger theme of challenging Russia– the country he believes controls the separatists in eastern Ukraine.

Russia

The story of McCain’s hatred of Russia spans back to the Cold War. We won’t get into McCain’s fear of communism that’s evolved into just general Russophobia. But we will say he didn’t have many excuses to focus on making threats towards Moscow for a good 15-20 year stretch.

This changed in 2008, with the war in South Ossetia between Georgia and Russia. During this conflict, McCain was the loudest voice saying the US “should immediately call a meeting of the North Atlantic Council to assess Georgia’s security and review measures NATO can take to contribute to stabilizing this very dangerous situation.”

Related: Georgia: Disapproval Rising For NATO Membership

This same situation repeated in Ukraine in 2014 but McCain’s worst comments came this year. As soon as the US Intelligence Community’s accused Russia of interference in the 2016 US elections– and without any evidence– McCain was first to say the event was an “act of war.”

North Korea

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DRPK/North Korea) was also an early target of McCain’s making his September 12th wish list. More recently though, the restyled “Trump opponent” McCain was all-in on the new regime’s saber rattling. Calling on Trump to strike the nuclear-armed country.

Related: Why Trump Can’t Just Bomb His Korea Problem Away

Bonus: China

China is kind of in its own class with McCain, who’s made strange, vague threats towards the country in the past. Such as “the Arab spring is coming to China,” whatever that means. China may be a target on the periphery for McCain, but he does still encourage antagonizing the country to this day. Calling for things like more “freedom of navigation drills” and other naval exercises in the South China Sea.

So, in summation, next time someone asks why you don’t care about John McCain’s clock running out, show them this article. McCain has encouraged the spread of death worldwide. The day he leaves congress will be a victory for the human race.

Also published on Medium.

From: geopoliticsalert.com/history-john-mccain-war

#Afghanistan #Bosnia #China #Iran #Iraq #John McCain #Kosovo #Libya #North Korea #Russia #Syria #Ukraine #West and Central Africa

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Kremlin Dismisses ‘Outrageous’ Hypocrite International Criminal Court (ICC) Claims

The Hague-based body has no authority in Russia, spokesman points out

"The decisions of the International Criminal Court have no significance for our country, including from a legal point of view," Zakharova wrote in a Telegram post Friday. "Russia is not a party to the ICC's Rome Statute and bears no obligations under it. Russia is not engaged in cooperation with this body, and any possible [orders] for arrests coming from the court will be legally null and void for us," she added.

Moscow is under no obligation to acknowledge the “arrest warrant” for President Vladimir Putin announced by the International Criminal Court on Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

“We consider the very premise outrageous and unacceptable,” Peskov told reporters when asked about the warrant for purported war crimes. “Russia, like many other states, does not recognize the jurisdiction of this court. Accordingly, the Russian Federation considers any of its pronouncements null and void from the legal standpoint.”

When will “Hypocrite International Criminal Court (ICC)” issues warrants to arrest “REAL WAR CRIMINALS” Biden, Obama, Bush Sr., Bush Jr., Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Collin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Jorge Tenet, Norman Schwarzkopf, Nicolas Sarkozy, Tony Blair, North Atlantic Terrorist Organization’s (NATO’s) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Palestine’s illegal occupier Zionist Cunt Satan-Yahu, MODI of India and so many around the Globe?

The ICC on Friday issued warrants for the arrest of Putin and Russia’s Children’s Ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova, accusing them of “unlawful transfer” of children from Ukraine to Russia. They claim Putin and Lvova-Belova bear both individual and command responsibility for the alleged war crime.

Former Russian President and Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev summed up the "arrest warrant" with a single emoji, tweeting that there’s "no need to explain WHERE this paper should be used," accompanying the comment with a toilet paper icon.

The Russian authorities have evacuated thousands of residents from Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson – four regions that overwhelmingly voted to join Russia last September – to the interior, due the deliberate shelling of civilians by Ukrainian forces, often using NATO-supplied weapons.

"Today the jurisdiction of the ICC is unrecognized not only by Russia, but also by a number of members of the UN Security Council. Having made such an absurd decision, the ICC has embarked on the path of self-destruction," — Andrey Klishas, chairman of the Russian Federation Council’s committee on constitutional legislation and state construction,.

“It’s great that the international community has appreciated the work to help the children of our country,” Maria Lvova-Belova told reporters on Friday evening.

Neither Russia nor Ukraine have ratified the Rome Statute that established the ICC. The US, which underwrote the tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda on which the ICC was based, adopted a law authorizing a military invasion of the Netherlands if any American is ever detained by the court.

People Comments:

The ICC is just one of the Criminals. Where is Cheney and Bushes Warrant for Mass Murder? Where is Obama and Hillary's warrant for Crimes they committed in Syria and Libya? I would think Europe and America have had enough War in the 20th Century. Why are they pushing for Nuclear annihilation in the 21st?

The ICC ought to be dismantled and put on trial for its cover-up of the mass murder of Iraqi civilians (overwhelmingly women and children) by the U.S.-Britain criminal gang of George W. Bush and Tony Blair. What is the ICC doing to stop the daily killing of Palestinian children by the Israeli Neo-fascist regime? For more than 8 years, the ICC turned blind eye to the killing and misplacement of women and children in Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson by the Ukrainian Neo-Nazi regime.

Again, another US controlled court with zero chances of being unbiase.

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Le Pen election a referendum on Islamic terrorism

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NICE, France—On the battlefields of eastern Ukraine, former French special operations troops and French foreign legionnaires have fought on opposite sides of the war, joining the ranks of both pro-Ukrainian volunteer battalions as well as Russia’s proxy separatist army.

Meanwhile, on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq, about 700 French citizens remain among the Islamic State’s ranks, including about 300 women and dozens of minors. In the skies overhead, French warplanes bomb Islamic State targets almost every day, having conducted about 1,200 airstrikes on ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria since September 2014, according to France’s Ministry of Defense.

French civilians and soldiers are on opposing sides of Europe’s two biggest security challenges—Islamist terrorism and Russian revanchism. Similarly, when French voters go to the polls for the second, decisive round in their country’s presidential election on May 7, they will choose between two candidates who hold diametrically opposing national security platforms—centrist Emmanuel Macron and the far-right National Front party’s Marine Le Pen.

Le Pen represents the National Front, a far-right, anti-EU, anti-immigration party with financial backing from Moscow. She favors France’s departure from the European Union and possibly NATO, and wants to lift sanctions on Moscow for its proxy war in Ukraine. Her counterterrorism proposals include curbs on immigration and revoking citizenship for French nationals with ties to terrorist groups.

Macron, France’s former economy minister, is running his first political campaign and is without the backing of a major party. The 39-year-old front-runner embraces France’s traditional role in legacy European institutions like the EU and NATO. To combat terrorism, Macron’s plan includes rehabilitation centers for French jihadists, as well as law enforcement and intelligence-sharing reforms.

May 7 represents an existential fork in the road for the French Republic, both at home and in its national security policy. But the election is about more than just France. Europe’s future is also at a crossroads.

From its Atlantic shoreline to its eastern limits on the Eurasian steppe, Europe is threatened on multiple fronts by myriad crises that are pulling apart the Continent’s social fabric from within, and have raised the specter of a war with Russia.

Far-left and far-right nationalist parties, many funded by Moscow, are serious contenders in national elections, and are pushing for their respective countries to withdraw from the European Union.

Russia has invaded Ukraine and has pursued a revanchist military policy across Eastern Europe. Souring relations with Turkey could resume a flood of refugees into Europe from war-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Jews are fleeing for Israel at an historic rate due to an increase in anti-Semitic incidents. And battle-hardened Islamist militants are returning home from Syria and Iraq to launch attacks, and recruit new followers, in their adopted European homelands.

A snapshot of events over the span of one week from April 18 to 25 underscore Europe’s myriad, interwoven crises.

Tuesday, April 18

In Turkey on April 18, voters narrowly approved a referendum that dramatically expanded President Recep Erdogan’s executive powers, setting the NATO member country, and EU candidate, on a path to dictatorship.

After a failed coup last year, Turkish authorities have arrested 40,000 people, including more than 2,700 judges and about 200 journalists. The post-coup roundups drew condemnations from the European Union, sparking tit-for-tat diplomatic jabs.

For the European Union, deteriorating relations with Turkey come at a price—Ankara’s perpetual trump card in any spat remains its ability to reopen the spigot of refugees from Syria and other embattled countries. That flood of refugees has had dramatic social consequences for Europe, reshaping its political order.

Since 2014, anti-immigration nationalistic parties have gained followers in countries across Europe, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Austria, Finland, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Serbia.

In France, the National Front’s anti-immigration, anti-EU platform is resonating among voters. In 2014, the party scored its first nationwide election victory.

At an April 17 rally in Paris, Le Pen pledged to suspend all legal immigration of non-EU citizens and slap a 10 percent tax on all businesses that hire foreigners. “I will protect you,” Le Pen said at the rally. “My first measure as president will be to reinstate France’s borders.”

She added, “With the serious terror threat that weighs on us, we have to be able to control who enters to be able to expel those who represent a danger.”

In Germany, where more than 2 million asylum seekers from war-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa have entered since 2015, the refugee crisis and an attendant rise in crime and terrorism will be a key issue for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s re-election campaign this year.

The number of crimes committed by migrants in Germany jumped by 52.7 percent in 2016, according to German police statistics reported by The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. And in 2016, Germany was hit by seven terrorist attacks that left 22 people dead and 122 wounded, according to news reports.

Thursday, April 20

On April 20, two days after the Turkish referendum, as French presidential candidates were on TV for a live debate, an Islamist militant gunned down and killed a French police officer on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.

It was the latest in a series of deadly terrorist attacks that have kept France in a state of national emergency since January 2015, when Islamist terrorists stormed the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, murdering 11.

In the past two years, a series of Islamist terror attacks, most linked to ISIS, have killed 240 people in France. The majority of the attackers were French-born citizens, who, in most cases, were radicalized in prison.

Le Pen has advocated sweeping domestic changes to combat terrorism. She wants to strip citizenship from all dual national French citizens with ties to “jihadist networks,” expel all foreigners linked to Islamist fundamentalism, shut down all mosques linked to extremism, and carry out a nationwide crackdown on “hate preachers” in French mosques.

Also included in her campaign platform is a proposal to “place in preventive detention all French citizens in contact with foreign organizations suspected of acts of hostility or aggression against France.”

Macron called Le Pen’s proposals “demagoguery.”

To combat the terrorist threat, Macron has offered a more measured, prescriptive approach than his rival. His proposals include hiring 10,000 additional French police officers and gendarmes over five years (Le Pen has proposed adding 15,000), the formation of an interagency task force to combat the Islamic State threat, as well as a centralized European intelligence-sharing network.

Macron has also proposed creating rehabilitation centers for radicalized French citizens returning from embattled regions in the Middle East—to show them that “another life is possible after a life of radicalization or jihadism.”

“This threat, this imponderable problem, is part of our daily lives for the years to come,” Macron said after the April 20 Champs-Elysees attack.

Sunday, April 23

On April 23, Le Pen and Macron advanced to the second round of France’s presidential contest, setting up an upheaval of the established political order in France on May 7. Both of France’s traditional parties, the Socialists and the conservative Les Républicains, have been shut out of the presidential runoff.

Most polls predict a Macron victory on May 7. Yet, last year’s Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and the election of U.S. President Donald Trump have underscored a contemporary, worldwide penchant for poll-defying election results.

The National Front has been a longtime outlier in French politics, best known for the controversial Nazi-sympathizing, anti-immigrant missives of its founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen—Marine Le Pen’s estranged father.

Yet, as early as 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was the National Front’s leader at the time, stunned the French establishment with a second-place showing in that year’s presidential election.

In 2011, Marine Le Pen took over the National Front’s reigns from her father, and has since tried to rehabilitate the party’s image. Three years later, the National Front won mayoral elections in 12 cities and finished first with about 25 percent of the vote for France’s European Parliament election. It was the first nationwide election victory since the party’s founding in 1973.

And in December 2016, just weeks after terrorist attacks in Paris killed 130 people, the National Front won the first round of France’s regional elections, taking 28 percent of the overall vote.

“The terrorist attacks have played an important role in Le Pen’s rise to a serious candidate,” Marcel Van Herpen, director of the Cicero Foundation, a Dutch think tank that specializes in Russian and European affairs, told The Daily Signal in an earlier interview. “They confirmed the already existing idea that migrants from Muslim countries are dangerous and are a threat to the French identity. They also confirm the idea that the European Union … is not the solution, but only a part of the problem.”

Monday, April 24

On Monday, Ivanka Trump commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin with Merkel, the German chancellor. The annual commemoration came at a precarious moment for European Jews.

In Germany, reported anti-Semitic attacks have doubled from 2015 to 2016, according to the Israeli Diaspora Ministry. In 2016, the United Kingdom registered the sharpest rise in anti-Semitic incidents among all countries worldwide, according to a Tel Aviv University report.

In France, Jews have been fleeing for Israel at a rate unseen since the Jewish state’s founding in 1948.

In 2012, an Islamist extremist killed four people in an attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse. The next year, the number of Jews leaving France for Israel jumped by 72 percent from 1,917 to 3,293.

In 2014, the number more than doubled again to 7,086. And after a jihadist attacked a Jewish kosher market in January 2015, killing four, the number of French Jews emigrating to Israel that year doubled yet again to about 15,000.

About 5,000 Jews left France for Israel in 2016.

“Once again, young Jewish boys are afraid to wear yarmulkes on the streets of Paris, Budapest, London, and even Berlin,” Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, said at the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in January 2015.

Le Pen has drawn criticism for remarks in which she suggested that France’s Nazi-collaborating Vichy government during World War II was not responsible for rounding up tens of thousands of French Jews and sending them to Nazi death camps.

In July 1942, French police corralled 13,000 Jews, including 4,000 children, at the Vel d’Hiv velodrome in Paris before they were sent to concentration camps.

“I don’t think France is responsible for the Vel d’Hiv,” Le Pen told French broadcaster LCI in April, adding that the Vichy government “was not France.”

Overall, during the occupation from 1940 to 1944, France’s collaborationist Vichy government helped German authorities deport about 78,000 French Jews to death camps.

Tuesday, April 25

In a surprise move on Tuesday, the U.S. Air Force deployed two of its newest fifth-generation fighter jets, the F-35, and approximately 20 airmen to Ämari Air Base, Estonia—less than 150 miles west of the Russian border.

The move comes as NATO repositions troops and military hardware on its eastern flank as a hedge against Russian military aggression.

“The introduction of the newest fighter to Europe, with its state-of-the-art systems will help the alliance maintain the fundamental sovereign rights of all nations,” Estonian Defense Minister Margus Tsahkna said, according to news reports.

The war in Ukraine has rattled many Eastern European countries, and spurred them to prepare for war with Russia. After more than three years, and despite multiple cease-fires, Europe’s only ongoing land war has not ended. Ukrainian military forces are fighting against a combined force of pro-Russian separatists and Russian regulars along a 250-mile-long front line in Ukraine’s embattled eastern Donbas region.

Today, the war in Ukraine is limited and static, mostly fought at a distance from trenches and ad hoc forts with artillery, rockets, and snipers. More than 10,000 Ukrainians have so far died in the conflict.

Behind the front lines in Ukraine, Russia has waged a “hybrid” war of cyberattacks and propaganda—a modern take on a Soviet military strategy called “Deep Battle.”

Russia’s hybrid warfare playbook, honed in Ukraine, is now being put to work to undermine Western democracies. And, according to news reports, has targeted the Macron campaign through propaganda and cyberattacks.

Due to the Russian threat, Eastern Europe has become the most rapidly militarizing region on earth. Since 2014, Ukraine (which is not a member of NATO) has rebuilt its military into the second-largest standing army in Europe, comprising more than 250,000 active troops—only Russia’s is bigger.

The Baltic countries of Latvia and Lithuania, both NATO members, have had the two fastest-growing military budgets in the world since 2014, according to IHS Jane’s. Poland, also a NATO member, has doubled its military spending since 2006.

NATO has plans to send four 1,000-troop-strong battalions eastward; one for each of the three Baltic countries, and one for Poland. Additionally, one of the core tasks of NATO’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force, which comprises about 5,000 troops, is to “respond to emerging security challenges posed by Russia,” according to a statement on the alliance’s website.

The U.S. has about 35,000 military personnel in Europe. Recently, the U.S. Army deployed an additional heavy brigade to Poland, comprising about 3,500 troops and 87 tanks, as well as a unit of 500 troops to Romania. The U.S. also has troops in Ukraine conducting a training mission.

Moscow has called NATO’s eastern buildup a threat to Russian national security, and has accordingly repositioned missiles and bombers to its western outposts in Crimea and the Kaliningrad exclave.

“The alliance’s expansion is disrupting a balance of forces in the region and increasing the risks of military incidents,” Gen. Valery Gerasimov, chief of Russia’s General Staff, said on Wednesday, according to TASS.

Wednesday, April 26

On Wednesday, French officials announced the results of a declassified investigation, which concluded that Syrian President Bashar Assad “undoubtedly” used sarin gas in a deadly attack in Idlib province on April 4.

The Syrian chemical weapons attack killed at least 70, including children, and spurred a retaliatory U.S. cruise missile strike on a Syrian air base where Russian forces were deployed in support of the Assad regime.

“There’s no doubt that sarin was used. There is also no doubt about the responsibility of the Syrian regime,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a tweet.

Russian officials promptly rebuked the French investigation’s findings, claiming it proved nothing.

“The Kremlin and President [Vladimir] Putin still believe that conducting an impartial international investigation is the only way to find out the truth,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow on Wednesday, according to TASS.

The National Front has received financial backing from Moscow, and Le Pen is an avowed ally of Putin, as well as an apologist for Russia’s 2014 seizure of Crimea and ongoing proxy war in Ukraine, as well as the Kremlin’s military operation in Syria.

Le Pen has been critical to the U.S. retaliatory cruise missile strike. Echoing Moscow’s line of thinking, she claimed not enough information existed to pin the chemical weapons attack on Assad’s forces.

“What happened is terrible, yes, and I bitterly condemn the gas attack, but could we not wait to hear the results of an international inquiry?” Le Pen said, according to French news reports.

For his part, Macron said if elected president he would “neutralize” Assad’s chemical weapons stockpiles. And vis-a-vis Russia, Macron wants to maintain punitive EU sanctions against Russia until the Kremlin fully complies with the Minsk II cease-fire.

“Vladimir Putin’s Russia is pursuing a dangerous foreign policy that does not hesitate to disregard international law,” Macron’s campaign said in a statement on its website.

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Far-left and far-right nationalist parties, many funded by Moscow, are serious contenders in national elections, and are pushing for their respective countries to withdraw from the European Union.

A snapshot of events over the span of one week from April 18 to 25 underscore Europe’s myriad, interwoven crises.

Tuesday, April 18

In France, the National Front’s anti-immigration, anti-EU platform is resonating among voters. In 2014, the party scored its first nationwide election victory.

She added, “With the serious terror threat that weighs on us, we have to be able to control who enters to be able to expel those who represent a danger.”

Thursday, April 20

Macron called Le Pen’s proposals “demagoguery.”

“This threat, this imponderable problem, is part of our daily lives for the years to come,” Macron said after the April 20 Champs-Elysees attack.

Sunday, April 23

Yet, as early as 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was the National Front’s leader at the time, stunned the French establishment with a second-place showing in that year’s presidential election.

And in December 2016, just weeks after terrorist attacks in Paris killed 130 people, the National Front won the first round of France’s regional elections, taking 28 percent of the overall vote.

Monday, April 24

On Monday, Ivanka Trump commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin with Merkel, the German chancellor. The annual commemoration came at a precarious moment for European Jews.

In France, Jews have been fleeing for Israel at a rate unseen since the Jewish state’s founding in 1948.

In 2012, an Islamist extremist killed four people in an attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse. The next year, the number of Jews leaving France for Israel jumped by 72 percent from 1,917 to 3,293.

About 5,000 Jews left France for Israel in 2016.

In July 1942, French police corralled 13,000 Jews, including 4,000 children, at the Vel d’Hiv velodrome in Paris before they were sent to concentration camps.

“I don’t think France is responsible for the Vel d’Hiv,” Le Pen told French broadcaster LCI in April, adding that the Vichy government “was not France.”

Overall, during the occupation from 1940 to 1944, France’s collaborationist Vichy government helped German authorities deport about 78,000 French Jews to death camps.

Tuesday, April 25

The move comes as NATO repositions troops and military hardware on its eastern flank as a hedge against Russian military aggression.

Behind the front lines in Ukraine, Russia has waged a “hybrid” war of cyberattacks and propaganda—a modern take on a Soviet military strategy called “Deep Battle.”

Moscow has called NATO’s eastern buildup a threat to Russian national security, and has accordingly repositioned missiles and bombers to its western outposts in Crimea and the Kaliningrad exclave.

Wednesday, April 26

“There’s no doubt that sarin was used. There is also no doubt about the responsibility of the Syrian regime,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a tweet.

Russian officials promptly rebuked the French investigation’s findings, claiming it proved nothing.

“What happened is terrible, yes, and I bitterly condemn the gas attack, but could we not wait to hear the results of an international inquiry?” Le Pen said, according to French news reports.

“Vladimir Putin’s Russia is pursuing a dangerous foreign policy that does not hesitate to disregard international law,” Macron’s campaign said in a statement on its website.

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