The Brink of War?

[Moses]

6. Along with the ICC's arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin and his commissioner for children’s rights, the legal future of Russia's top government officials looks quite rosy, doesn't it?

Nope: nobody cares. ICC is toothless.
Al Bashar from Sudan was more than 10 years "under warrant" and traveled a lot, all countries he visited denied to fulfil that warrant.
It is just step of propaganda, which is then more joke, than more countries support arrest warrant while themselves aren't members of ICC.

Do you know how people call ICC? "Racism's court of West for to pressure on Africa". Just take a look on their case: all cases were about African countries till now.

Afghanistan is member of ICC but US not, and all we know why exactly
Palestine is member of ICC but Israel not, and all we know why exactly

ICC (court) is so "world famous" and "important" that Google shows International Cricket council first and only then ICC (court)

[Moses]

We are living in Orwell book 1984:
- EU transfers 2 bln to "Fund for Peace"... for to buy weapon
- US has 2.5 times more prisoners per 100k of population than Iran and call itself "democracy #1"...
- EU and US openly support country where current nationalistic govt got power in coup and supports Nazi parties and movements, state military parts openly use Nazi symbolic...

shame

[Dragonman]

Nope: nobody cares. ICC is toothless.
Al Bashar from Sudan was more than 10 years "under warrant" and traveled a lot, all countries he visited denied to fulfil that warrant.
It is just step of propaganda, which is then more joke, than more countries support arrest warrant while themselves aren't members of ICC.

Do you know how people call ICC? "Racism's court of West for to pressure on Africa". Just take a look on their case: all cases were about African countries till now.

Afghanistan is member of ICC but US not, and all we know why exactly
Palestine is member of ICC but Israel not, and all we know why exactly

ICC (court) is so "world famous" and "important" that Google shows International Cricket council first and only then ICC (court)

You need to learn how Google ranks search responses before claiming that they are based on popularity.

But just consider - the US may not be a member of the ICC, but I doubt he will travel to New York to address the UN in the future or attend a meeting of the G20 either, as the ICC may invite any non-State Party to provide assistance in the arrest and surrender of a person against whom an arrest warrant has been issued. His international presence will be severely diminished. And he will go down in history as a wanted war criminal, whether or not he is arrested - which is not the way he wanted history to remember him, I imagine.

[Dragonman]

We are living in Orwell book 1984:
- EU transfers 2 bln to "Fund for Peace"... for to buy weapon
- US has 2.5 times more prisoners per 100k of population than Iran and call itself "democracy #1"...
- EU and US openly support country where current nationalistic govt got power in coup and supports Nazi parties and movements, state military parts openly use Nazi symbolic...

shame

1. I don't know to which "Fund for Peace" you refer (there is no source cited) because the only one I know of by (https://fundforpeace.org/that name is an American non-profit, non-governmental research and educational institution).
2A. The difference between the USA and Iran is that Iran executes its prisoners for even minor crimes, usually after a very short "trial" and without legal representation or appeal (http://e.g., https://www.amnesty.org...-row-execution).
2B. Politicians in the US are not certain whether it is a democracy or a republic, as the word "democracy" is not mentioned in its Constitution. Their system is founded on republicanism as its Founding Founders understood it. That is why power is spread across the three branches of government, and why there is an Electoral College.
3. You're repeating yourself, a sign you're running out of arguments.

One of the reasons for Putin launching the "special military operation" is the claim that Ukraine (and probably Belarus, Moldova, etc.) were historically part of the Russian Empire. The People's Republic of China is about to take a page from the Putin playbook. On 14 February, 2023,, the PRC Ministry of Natural Resources (CMNR) issued a decree on the use of names on international maps. For some Russian cities, the decree rules they must now carry Chinese names, replacing their Russian ones. According to the 10-page document, maps covering Russia's east Siberia must carry the original Chinese names of eight large cities.The best known, Vladivostok, the administrative capital of the region, is now to be officially called "Haishenwai". Having secured the return of Hong Kong, PRC netizens are now agitating for the return of Eastern Siberia, annexed from the Qing Empire in the 19th century.

If Putin really believes that lands that formerly belonged to one country but have been annexed (or become independent) should be returned to their original owner, presumably he will agree to return this territory, If the Ukraine war goes badly for Russia (as it will), China may not hesitate to dust off old territorial claims (as it continues to do with Taiwan) (e.g., Territorial dispute between China and Russia risks clouding friendly future, https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/...riendly-future). i imagine the Iranians might also then agitate for lands seized in the 19th century too, perhaps along with others from whom the emperors stole territory.

[Moses]

The European Peace Facility
https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/euro...-facility-0_en

====territorial dispute between China and Russia====

such things doesn't exists: Russia and China finished demarcation of border within whole its length in 2005... for to close all cases Russia and China made exchange by some small territories and signed agreement what both sides count all cases closed.

[Dragonman]

====territorial dispute between China and Russia====

such things doesn't exists: Russia and China finished demarcation of border within whole its length in 2005... for to close all cases Russia and China made exchange by some small territories and signed agreement what both sides count all cases closed.

As the people in Hong Kong how much the PRC is to be trusted to observe any treaties it had signed with foreign countries.

[Dragonman]

We are living in Orwell book 1984:
- EU transfers 2 bln to "Fund for Peace"... for to buy weapon

As a former KGB officer and Communist Party apparatchik, Putin must be aware of the statement by former CPC and PRC leader Mao Zedong: "Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

That the guns might now belong to Ukraine, rather than the Russian Federation, and be funded by western democracies, is just one of history's ironies.

[Moses]

Hong Kong never been sovereign state. It was property of China, then UK, then - now - China again. Pseudo state.

[Moses]

That the guns might now belong to Ukraine, rather than the Russian Federation, and be funded by western democracies, is just one of history's ironies.

It isn't irony, it is Orwell's 1984. "Democracy" funds weapon via "Peace fund" and calls for war while names it "fight for Peace". "War is peace". Oceania vs Ostasia.

[Dragonman]

Hong Kong never been sovereign state. It was property of China, then UK, then - now - China again. Pseudo state.

As my comment was not about whether or not Hong Kong was a sovereign state, your answer misses the point. My comment was a reference to the treaty known as the Sino-British Joint Declaration between the of the United Kingdom and China, signed in 1984 and setting the conditions in which Hong Kong was transferred to Chinese control and for the governance of the territory for 50 years after 1 July 1997 handover, and to the way in which the PRC and the CPC has behaved since 2014.