“Why is the Russian military so obsessed with castration?” asks the president of Ukraine?
Ukraine is not alone, but its president Volodimir Zelensky reminded the world yesterday that the aggression it has undergone affects not only his country, “but the whole world.” Therefore, he asks for punishment, is declared a state sponsor of terrorism, tried in a special court and stripped of his power in international institutions. Punished for invading her country, for murdering thousands of people, for torturing and humiliating millions of women and men, and “for the catastrophic unrest she has caused with her illegal war.”
The punishment should begin by stripping Russia of the privileged place it occupies in the UN Security Council, where it is one of five countries with a permanent seat and veto power, “at least while the aggression lasts.” You cannot be a judge and be a party to a crime. “Although the aggressor is part of the decision-making process in international organizations, he must be isolated from them,” he requested. Don’t let him vote. Revoke his right of veto. Revoke the rights to his delegation.’
The diplomats listening to him at the UN expressed skepticism about what would be a long and complex process in a highly bureaucratic organization, where reform has been talked about for decades. The High Representative of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, who at the time was holding an emergency meeting with the 27 EU foreign ministers “to prepare a common response at the UN” to the Russian escalation, told this newspaper admit that “on it should at least be raised”.
Hours earlier, President Joe Biden himself, who represents one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, also said in his address to the General Assembly that “the time has come for this institution to become more inclusive so that it can better respond to the needs of the world today, referring to the enlargement of the Security Council, the highest UN body in which the entire world rotates ten seats, with the US, China, Russia, France and the United Kingdom running it permanently.
“The US supports increasing membership, both permanent and non-permanent,” he announced. And he also favors those who have “restrict the use of the veto,” which paralyzes the action of the only UN body whose resolutions are binding. Biden would limit its use to “rare and extraordinary situations” to ensure its credibility and effectiveness.
Only if Russia were deprived of that right while remaining an aggressor would the rest of the punitive measures proposed by Zelensky, who spoke via videoconference in his traditional olive green shirt, talk about a president at war, thanks to the permission approved by the General Assembly. The Ukrainian president calls for the creation of a special court to try Russian crimes, so that it also has a deterrent effect. He also said he will call on the UN General Assembly to support the establishment of an international compensation mechanism.
“Russia must pay for this war with its possessions,” he asked. That punishment “is the most terrible for Russian officers, who put money above all else.” Therefore, it asks that its citizens should not be allowed to enjoy tourism or shopping in other countries, in order to incite them to fight against the aggression of their own state.
There is more: the protection of life. This is the second point of his “Formula for Peace”, which he proposes as a roadmap for any other country in similar circumstances. As he spoke, he recalled, the excavations of bodies buried in 445 mass graves continue, from which men, women, children and the elderly have emerged. Among them, a man has been neutered before he was killed, “and it’s not the first case,” he revealed. “Ask the Russian representatives why the Russian military is so obsessed with castration. What has been done to them that they want to do this to others?
Zelensky believes Putin’s nuclear threats “are not a bluff”. Proof of this are the rockets that fell just 300 meters from the nuclear reactors of Zaporizhzhya, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. “That makes you all a target,” he warned. “Because no one will find a vaccine against radiation sickness.”
Nuclear blackmail is hard to avoid, but for energy, it proposes limiting the price of gas and oil exports “until they become common goods” rather than weapons. “Will the world go for it, or will it be afraid of Russian threats?” he challenged.
Source: La Verdad
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