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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 581 - When the US desperately needed moral authority on war crimes - it has none

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Without a doubt, Russia is committing thousands of war crimes against Ukraine. Any common spectator understands this. But right when the United States could desperately use moral authority to call out these war crimes, the world is reminding the US that it, too, has committed war crimes with impunity for generations.

Today I will speak on this painful truth - and discuss the interconnectedness of how horrible decisions made by the US government from its founding until today makes it nearly impossible to then call out other superpowers with any measure of seriousness.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today, I want to try to unpack and explain any central point that you're not going to see

0:07.8

or hear on CNN or even NPR or MSNBC or in the Washington Post of the New York Times.

0:16.4

Any place where you get mainstream American news, you won't really hear this point and

0:23.6

it's an essential point that must be said.

0:27.6

From the world, most people do not view the United States as a credible source to speak

0:36.3

out against war crimes.

0:39.0

So while we see devastating war crimes going on in Ukraine, and we see and experience

0:46.5

them unfolding right before our face in real time on social media, when the United

0:52.6

States speaks out on those war crimes.

0:56.1

The United States is right to speak out against them, but most of the informed world outside

1:03.2

of the United States is also fully aware of countless war crimes created, funded, pushed

1:13.9

on the world by the United States and does not see this country as a credible country

1:22.5

with moral authority to speak out on war crimes.

1:26.6

Let me try to unpack and explain what I mean.

1:30.4

I'm not into what aboutism, but let me try to explain why the United States has put itself

1:39.0

in a really difficult position.

1:41.6

This is Sean King and you are listening to...

1:44.9

I'm not sure if you are fully aware of something called the International Criminal Court

2:10.4

in the Hague and it's an essential important body that prosecutes war crimes and war criminals.

2:21.9

And Russia rightly so has been referred to the International Criminal Court in the Hague

2:29.9

for its many thousands of war crimes that it has committed over the past eight days in

2:36.4

Ukraine.

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