International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrant for President Putin

Just as China’s President Xi Jinping is about to take his trip to Moscow, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an international arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes. The warrant, which has been flatly rejected by Russia as a political ploy from the West, is meant to prevent President Putin from undertaking international travel, or at least to tarnish his “image” for the media. The decision by the court was applauded by President Joe Biden, in spite of the fact that the establishment of this “kangaroo court” was never ratified by Russia or China, or, for that matter, by the U.S. or Ukraine. The basis of the claims seem to hinge on the fact that Russia took Ukrainian children out of the war zone and brought them to protective custody in Russia. (The claims seem to imply that Putin should have left the children in the war zone where they would possibly be killed.)