{"id":135235,"date":"2024-11-22T15:49:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T15:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/?p=135235"},"modified":"2024-11-23T11:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T11:00:19","slug":"icc-throws-both-uk-and-eu-a-curve-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2024\/11\/22\/icc-throws-both-uk-and-eu-a-curve-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC throws both UK and EU a curve ball"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much ado about nothing?<\/p>\n

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Yes it is – given that a UK visit by either the genocidal state’s leader or the defence minister he sacked <\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> is about as imminent as seeing Joe Biden on Mastermind. We may safely assume that Starmer’s people, likewise Von der Leyen’s, lost no time in assuring the criminal regime of the token nature of their formal response to the ICC arrest warrants. <\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All the same, we may equally assume that its issue is about as welcome as having Biden on your chess team. It leaves both UK and EU squirming on a hook they could have done without since, as I put it in one footnote to the previous post<\/strong><\/a> …<\/p>\n

The gratuitous insulting of Trump by Europe\u2019s globalist elites and their liberal media was … born of blinkered hubris: in this case that Tangerine Man could not stage a come-back\u00a0…<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n

… and in another footnote to the same:<\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s manufacturing powerhouse, Germany, is in crisis. Biden\u2019s ecocidal sabotage of NordStream, with the abject acceptance if not full-on involvement of Europe\u2019s comprador leaders, has robbed it of the cheap energy which kept it competitive. As Europeans pay through the nose to stay warm and put food on the table, firms go under else relocate in the USA. With Europe (the UK especially) having little to trade and unable to feed itself \u2013 even as sunset on Western supremacy erodes its ability to extract global rents on finance capital \u2013 its future looks bleak. Indeed, the one thing Washington can rightly claim as an irrefutable gain of its backfired war on Russia is that Europe\u2019s status vis a vis the USA has been demoted from junior partner to semi-colony.<\/span><\/h6>\n

Given these realities, the ICC arrest warrant tops up a cup of bitterness to overflow point. Which is pretty much all I have to say on the matter – other than to register my unqualified approval.<\/p>\n

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Moving on, I posted last week – This was no Kristallnact II<\/strong><\/a> – on the Maccabi Tel Aviv thugs. In it I wrote of the <\/span>Mayor of Amsterdam condemning \u201cantisemitic attacks\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 while the media “went into overdrive”.<\/em> I wrote too of Owen Jones’s “forensic takedown”\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>of that staggeringly deceitful narrative.<\/p>\n

The mayor has since gone on record with her regret at calling that night an antisemitic pogrom, and at failing to condemn the Maccabi thugs who ran amok in her city. But you’ll have heard of her willingness to admit being wrong, won’t you? After all, those same truth loving media which were all over the “antisemitic” angle have naturally given front page treatment to her honesty …<\/p>\n

… just pulling your leg. Of course they haven’t. Here’s Owen again:<\/p>\n