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Mar 14, 2023 6 tweets 9 min read Read on X
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** The #ICC is opening war crimes cases against #Russia -- so why isn’t the #USA helping? **

Read my @latimes op-ed to find out…

latimes.com/opinion/story/…
#AtrocityCrimes: Like others, U.S. politicians have decried Russia’s atrocity crimes in #Ukraine. President #Biden called it a #genocide. VP Harris recently said the U.S. has determined Russia has committed #CrimesAgainstHumanity.
theguardian.com/world/2023/feb…
#Investigations: And the U.S. is already helping Ukraine investigate these crimes. While Ukraine is already holding trials of Russians, it wants the ICC involved. But the @nytimes reports the Pentagon is blocking this – why?
nytimes.com/2023/03/08/us/…
#USFear: The U.S. has committed atrocity crimes in the past, including in #Iraq and Afghanistan. It fears cooperation now will lead to ICC indictments of U.S. soldiers / citizens later.
hrw.org/news/2022/01/0…
#Obligation:
Those fears, while grounded on the reality of past US crimes, are unwarranted. This is a moment when strategic and moral interests converge. The U.S. needs to help hold Russia accountable. It’s the right thing to do.
latimes.com/opinion/story/…

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Feb 19, 2023
**Has Russia committed #genocide in #Ukraine?**

My op-ed in @thehill answers #yes. I discuss the politics of naming and differentiate between colloquial, legal, and social scientific understandings -- and their entailments. A thread 1/9
thehill.com/opinion/intern…
First, #colloquial understandings generally center on the killing of innocents. The Holocaust looms large as a prototype, but it can be applied widely to everything from abortion to AIDS. It can also encompass various sorts of mass atrocities 2/9
ushmm.org/genocide-preve…
Because of its capaciousness, the colloquial understanding can be misapplied and politically appropriated – as was the case with Russia’s baseless claims about genocide in Donbas. 3/9
theconversation.com/putins-claims-…
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