Arresting Development: The ICC Arrest Warrant for Putin is A Weapon of War
Jim Kavanagh
The accumulation of ludicrous
moves by the United States and its pawns over the past few months has reached a
stage that would be risible if it were not so dangerous. The danger is
exacerbated by the insistence of American media on, first, ignoring the most
provocative and reckless moves, then proposing explanations for them that can't
withstand three minutes of critical thought. The object is to keep the American
public ignorant, make it stupid, and maintain the national-security state’s
prerogative to do anything it wants.
High on the list, of course, is
the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline and the various attempts to divert
attention away from the obvious culprit. The US and its poodles’ initial story—that
Russia blew up its own pipeline—was put forward under the correct assumption
that compliant media would report it as implied fact and then forget about it.
Seymour Hersh's detailed and
plausible account of a Biden-ordered sabotage operation, combined with the
public statements of Biden and other administration officials announcing their
intention to destroy the pipeline and celebrating its destruction, made it
necessary to say something seemingly apposite. The result—a tale of five
guys and a gal (fans of Ukraine but totally freelance) in a sailing yacht,
which happened to appear in U.S. and German newspapers right after a hurried
meeting between Biden and Scholz—elevates the diversion(ary discourse) from the
ridiculous to the comic.
Garland
Nixon suggests that this story—which I doubt a single sentient adult in the
world believes—must have been concocted
by
deep-state dissidents and masters of irony, who wanted to undermine the Biden administration
and the media by having them tell it. I can’t—and as a fan of irony, don’t want
to—rule that out. But I tend to see it more like Dan Ackroyd’s classic,
precognizant, SNL spoof ad for the
three-bladed razor: “Because you’ll believe anything.”
The tragedy is that Western—certainly
U.S.—media
do pretend to believe it, search engine algorithms will be adjusted to promote
it, and the U.S. government, ostensibly non-governmental Western media, and
impartial international organizations will refuse to investigate it. You are meant
to
believe it, whether anyone thinks
it’s true or not.
But the epitome of delusional and dangerous gestures was reached with the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin.
