Cackling Kamala Harris, a creature formally known as our Vice President, finally said something without sounding stupid when she announced this morning at the Munich Security Conference in Germany that the United States has formally declared Russia guilty of crimes against humanity. Here is her full statement:
“From the starting days of this unprovoked war, we have witnessed Russian forces engage in horrendous atrocities and war crimes. Their actions are an assault on our common values, an attack on our common humanity,” Harris said.
“And let us be clear. Russian forces have pursued a wide spread and systemic attack against a civilian population,” she continued. “Gruesome acts of murder, torture, rape and deportation. Executions, killings, beatings and electrocution. Russian authorities have forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of people from Ukraine to Russia, including children.”
“The United States has formally determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity,” Harris said.
This is important because now the United States is free to attack Russia without sanctions from the UN. More than that, and this wasn’t mentioned in the article citing this, is that Russia is now put on notice that we are free to enter the war and may do so at any time.
This may not deter Putin, but it should have a profound effect on his generals and admirals, and the civilian population of Russia, none of whom are likely to want to see this war with Ukraine balloon into a war with the United States and all of NATO.
Now we wait to see the results. Will other NATO nations start jumping on board with the US on this? What will be the response in Russia?
I know what the US goal is, it’s to drive out Putin and collapse the Russian economy, and I think this is calculated to make Putin do something drastic and stupid to give the US the desired result.