Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "War crimes tribunal going after Putin, but ignoring bigger war criminals?" video.

Well, hopefully this will make people realize that 'international justice' must be backed up by real power. If you have real power, you get a free pass. This is because we do not actually have any global standards for truth, justice, equality, even if many countries try to find some standards. Additionally, bringing a perceived perpetrator to justice requires that someone come pick him up. To apprehend a suspect, you need power behind you. All countries have their own police and courts of justice, but there is no real 'world police' or 'international court of justice', yet, just a sketch of those institutions. Who knows, maybe it will happen sometime in the future. And for what it's worth, I think it is highly unlikely that Putin will ever be brought to the ICC. He, after all, has a lot of power himself.
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@bandinemes9547 "What about Iraq, Libya, Syria?" What's your point?
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@backpackpepelon3867 "True power really came out of the long rifle" Isn't that a Mao quote? "Power grows out of the barrel of a gun". Mao Zedong, August 7, 1927. And again in 1938: "Communists do not fight for personal military power, ....but they must fight for military power for the Party, for military power for the people.... Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party". (edited for brevity).
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@SeeLasSee I agree with you, but that was not the point I was making. My point is that to enact justice, you need power. In your country (and mine and everywhere else), the state holds the power and can use police, courts, lawyers to make sure justice is done. The world doesn't have a 'state'. The world doesn't have an overarching power, but is an amalgamation of different powers with different interests.
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