The 2003 invasion of Iraq by the US-led Coalition of the Willing was a model exercise of maligning the very international system of rules Washington, London and Canberra speak of when condemning their latest assortment of international villains. Since then, Bush has taken to painting Blair and Howard have preferred to sell gobbets of alleged wisdom on the lecture circuit. Bush, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Australia’s own John Howard, the troika most to blame for not just the criminal invasion of a foreign country but the regional and global cataclysm consequential to it, remain at large. Twenty years on, former US President George W. Nor, for that matter, does the United States, despite the evident chortling from US President Joe Biden.

Russia, not being an ICC member country, does not acknowledge that court’s jurisdiction. It was, if nothing else, a feeble distraction over the misdeeds and crimes of other leaders current and former. The arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for Russian President Vladimir Putin came at an opportune moment.

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