Russia, as China, has made no noise about the West's fifteen year murderous occupation of poor Afghanistan and both adhere to a worldwide unwritten etiquette of diplomatic politeness not to identify the United States with its genocide(s) in Korea, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Iraq, not ever reminding the constantly targeted Third World that the US has either invaded or overthrown the government of every nation in Latin America.
No leader anywhere ever seems to call for prosecution of US invasions under the Nuremberg Principles. (The single exception this author could find is Gaddafi's 2009 UN General Assembly address.) The finest journalist, top intellectuals and historians stick to reporting and chronicling events of human horror as if they were simply RealPolitik as unchallengeable as the weather, never including the whole truth that they are obvious prosecutable genocidal crimes against humanity. In reporting domestic horror on a city street, usually the first issue is to clarify whether what happened was a crime or not, while in world coverage journalism, the word 'crime' amazingly is never employed. Journalists report mass murderous world events as being the result of terrible or mistaken foreign policy, rarely if ever citing a need for reparations, indemnity, compensation for surviving victims.
Though the super economic power to sanction protects the US from lawsuits, speaking the truth, if not a moral duty, is more compassionate than diplomatic and cowardly silence. What is today impossible can become possible, even probable or inevitable tomorrow or the day after, when interest in prosecution is aroused. Are we not brought up to honestly speak the truth and is speaking the truth not considered its own reward?
What will happen when the crimes of the colonial-neocolonial powers, the US and the nations of mostly white population, are a topic of conversation on street corners, in homes, cafes, workplaces and schools all around our rapidly changing world?
Mevedev, or better said, Russia and China, not using veto power to prevent a UN authorized capitalist powers reconquest of Libya is only an extreme example of a general 'might makes right' acquiescence to the colonial-neoclonial power profitable genocide that has gone on for centuries, and will most probably continue to go on until world economic power shifts from Europeans and their descendant nations overseas, to the more than six sevenths of humanity they plunder. If estimates of world economic power shifting to the East and South in about twenty-five years are correct, effects might become apparent rather soon.
The current media managed US election process seems a playing out in public of indecision within the rich one tenth of one percent who rule the world, indecision about whether to switch to less profitable investing in their home base, America and Europe, or to continue wildly enriching themselves heavily investing in the much higher profit rendering low wage economies of the rest of the world, thereby accelerating forward the arrival of the time when those economies of the plundered six-seventh of humanity will overtake and demand equity from the nations of the plundering First World. Billionaire Republican candidate Donald Trump seems to have been designated to present a demand that government force the wealth controlling deep-pockets to invest in an America suffering from neglect.
In Africa, Asia, Latin America, and in the inner cities of the US and Europe, it can be expected that leaders espousing self-development in economic freedom from White imperialism will arise and pick up from where Che Guevara, Gaddafi, Thomas Sankara, Amilcar Cabral, Hugo Chavez, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, and Martin Luther King had gotten us to when they were murdered.
With realization that hugely populated China will inevitably replace America as the world's most influential society, Donald Trump seems to have been allowed to also suggest that it be better for the US to stop investing in the profitable genocidal and illegal use of its Armed Forces, CIA, sanctions, State Department and media, and even perhaps pay up now for some of the death and destruction before the inevitable lawsuits for compensation, indemnity and reparations are adjudicated in a revamped International Court of Justice of a reconstituted United Nations no longer under Western control.
Trump, with mainstream media ridiculing him and making a blatant over the top show of frightened opposition, as if the owners of criminal media were terribly against him, has been permitted to say among other things that the five trillion dollars spent in destroying the Middle East would have been better spent in America, that NATO is obsolete, that the United States should be friends with America's long designated enemies China and Russia, and that he will get along well with Putin and Xi Jinping.
Whew! How long before a US president will say that the wars on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia were not heroic after all, as a start of telling the genocidal truth of all the rest of US foreign policy that former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark in his book,The Fire This Time - US War Crimes in the Gulf, calls, "the greatest crime against humanity since WWII."
Attorney Clark, our most distinguished defector from the bloody US establishment, lends legal support to philosopher Plato words with, "A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both."
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