The Canadian Compass: Charting a Path Though Geopolitical Chaos

  In the midst of all the media attention around the meeting between Putin and Trump in Anchorage, Alaska tomorrow, something very important is missing from the extensive coverage of the meeting of these two individuals. It is apparently not important that Vladimir Putin has been charged by the International Court of Justice for war crimes and could, under normal circumstances, in a normal state of affairs, be arrested and hustled off to prison to await his trial. "On March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights, on charges of war crimes connected to the forced deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. While the warrant against Lvova-Belova is significant, this analysis focuses on the implications of the charges against Putin, representing a landmark in the intersection of individual criminal responsibility and head-of-state immun...

The Canadian Government's consideration to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state is a good diplomatic strategy, in the realpolitik sense.  Canada does not have the ability to change the course of the war but it does, in league with other like minded States, alter the Israeli calculus that currently propels it toward full and complete occupation. The total devastation in Palestine is front and centre of virtually every news outlet for all to see and now Israel and their leadership, hijacked by an extreme right insists that more devastation is necessary to bring Hamas to heel. On the periphery, emboldened and weapon laden settlers on the West Bank, gradually encroach on and seize Palestinian land. How in the world are such horrific and unconscionable actions allowed to take place? First, Trump, a convicted criminal, has Benjamin Netanyahu's back. Netanyahu has also been indicted for fraud, breach of trust and bribery. These men are cut from the same cloth.  ( https://en.wikip...