March 18, 2025 (EIRNS)—The New York Times reported yesterday, citing the usual unnamed sources, that the Trump Administration’s Justice Department has informed European officials that the United States is withdrawing from a multinational group created to investigate leaders (allegedly) responsible for the invasion of Ukraine. The decision to withdraw from the International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, the Times claims, “is the latest indication of the Trump administration’s move away from President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s commitment to holding Mr. Putin personally accountable for crimes committed against Ukrainians.”
The tone of the Times report makes clear that the axiomatic basis for this International Center is that a verdict of guilty against Russian President Vladimir Putin is already assumed. All that remains is to gather the evidence, real or imagined. No investigation of actual crimes, such as those committed by the Kiev regime against Ukrainians and Russians since 2014, or the aiding and abetting of those crimes, such as by supplying weapons, by the EU and the U.S.
