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The Global Tortoise And The Genocidal Hare: A Parable Of How (Not) To Create Global Democracy
Since the early days of Putin’s brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, we have heard the reporters, pundits, world leaders, and other members of the global community decry Putin’s war crimes and the need to hold him accountable for the unabashed murder and brutality Russian soldiers have inflicted on the Ukrainian civilian population and the country itself.
But we also hear — and can certainly observe — how the wheels of international justice turn with agonizing sluggishness or simply don’t move at all, to the point of being, to be most frank, practically inconsequential.
Unlike the proverbial tortoise whose slow and steady pace eventually overtakes the blithely overconfident and undisciplined hare to win the race, the international system of justice at work in our supposedly global community does not seem to advance even at a slow and steady pace; and even if it did, it would not be able at all to declare any kind of victory, or serve any consequential justice, on behalf of the Ukrainian people and their sovereign nation.
We hear all the hemming and hawing about the need to document atrocities properly, collect evidence, build a proper case, blablabla. Meanwhile, the bodies pile up and the homes of Ukrainians and the nation’s…
