DISINFO: ICC arrest warrant against Putin was issued because western sanctions don't work
SUMMARY
Western mainstream media obsessively wonder: do sanctions on Russia work? Everything indicates that sanctions reached their peak, or their bottom.
The latest Western occurrence, out of frustration on the inefficiency of its measures, was the notorious but empty announcement of the International Criminal Court on the issue of an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin.
RESPONSE
Long-term pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about the futility of sanctions and about Russia always being falsely accused, a recurring Russian strategy to avoid responsibility for its misdeeds.
There is genuine research and discussion take place among Western experts and commentators on the efficiency of the sanctions. But contrary to what this disinformation story implies, the International Criminal Court arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin is not an escalation on Western pressure against Russia in face of the supposed failure of sanctions but the result of Putin’s alleged oversight of Russia’s well-documented practice of the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children.
The European Union has expressed support for the investigations of the ICC Prosecutor.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives, such as claims that the ICC has no competence to issue arrest warrants against Russian citizens, that the kidnapping of Ukrainian children by Russia is an absurd hoax, that a secret society of paedophiles is taking revenge on Putin with this warrant, or that this poses new challenges to chances for peace.