The imposition of the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Russian President Putin is legally ineffective and another blow to international law by the West, confirming Russia's criticism that the West is devaluing supposedly objective and neutral international institutions. I will show why this is so here in turn. **The Arrest Warrant.** That the arrest warrant is legally invalid is because Russia has not acceded to the agreement on the Court and is therefore not subject to its jurisdiction. That the arrest warrant was nevertheless issued is therefore another blow to international law. That the arrest warrant came about as a result of political pressure from the West is evident from the reasoning. In the press release, the Court writes: Mr. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, born on October 7, 1952, President of the Russian Federation, is alleged to be responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of the population (children) and unlawful transfer of the population (children) from the occupied territories of Ukraine to the Russian Federation. The crimes are alleged to have been committed in the occupied Ukrainian territories at least from February 24, 2022. There are sufficient grounds to believe that Mr. Putin is individually criminally responsible for the above crimes (i) because he committed the acts directly, jointly with others, and/or through others (...) and (ii) because he failed to adequately control his civilian and military subordinates who committed the acts or allowed them to be committed and who were under his actual authority and control, in accordance with the superior's responsibility. So it is about the alleged "deportation" of children from Ukraine. The problem is that there is no evidence for this, only unsubstantiated accusations from Russia's opponents. In Der Spiegel, it sounds like this: "A study by the American Yale University had recently identified a network of camps in Russia where 6000 Ukrainian children are said to have been housed. The Ukrainian government spoke in March of more than 16,000 abducted children." That a "study by the American Yale University" confirms this sounds convincing. The problem is that it is not an independent and objective study, because the "study" does not contain solid evidence for the allegations. Instead, the study is part of the Conflict Observatory project launched by the U.S. State Department on May 17, 2022, which received six million dollars in seed funding from the U.S. State Department to report alleged Russian war crimes. The Conflict Observatory project includes other organizations, such as the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) intelligence agencies. So the International Court of Justice is not basing its warrant on anything objective, but on unsubstantiated allegations by Russia's adversaries, Ukraine and the US. But that is not enough. **Did Russia deport children?** I reported in October 2022, when it came to the evacuation of Kherson, that Russia guaranteed housing in Russia to the people from Kherson who wanted to escape to safety from the Ukrainian army. Each family from Kherson that wanted to be evacuated was given so-called certificates with which they could buy apartments in a place of their choice in Russia, and the value of the certificates was calculated according to the size of the family, allocating them a certain number of square meters depending on the size of the family. The sums were surprisingly generous and were sufficient for the purchase of appropriate apartments without having to take out an additional mortgage. That there were reasons for the Russian evacuation offer was not Russian propaganda, as Western media have claimed, but that Ukraine itself openly proclaimed. Thus, an advisor to the Ukrainian president at the time publicly stated: "Teachers and kindergarten teachers should remember that they are not nice aunts, but criminals, towards whom there is no sentimentality. The weather is such that it means either death or prison. We, as an absolutely European country, will not play with any sentimentality or indulgence". For Kiev, anyone who continues to go about their work in Russian-controlled territories is a traitor who faces death. This also applies to kindergarten teachers, teachers or employees of children's homes. The British newspaper Daily Mail reported on October 5 on the massacres in Ukrainian-occupied territories under the headline "'We'll hunt them down and shoot them like pigs': how Ukrainians are taking brutal revenge on collaborators who betrayed their neighbors - and their country - to the Russians". "Kiev has already opened investigations into 1,309 suspected traitors and initiated 450 criminal cases against collaborators accused of betraying their country and neighbors. Others are being tracked down and slaughtered by resistance fighters. A list leaked to this newspaper by a Kiev government source lists 29 such reprisal killings, and 13 other assassination attempts in which some of the victims were wounded. "A hunt has been called for collaborators, and their lives are not protected by the law," said Anton Gerashchenko, an Interior Ministry adviser. "Our intelligence services are eliminating them and shooting them like pigs."" These were not empty words at all. When Kherson was occupied by the Ukrainian army, Ukrainian soldiers documented in detail on Telegram how they indiscriminately hunted down and slaughtered suspected Russian collaborators there. ** What should Russia do?** So what should, for example, employees of children's homes in Kherson do, even if they were actually pro-Ukrainian? Should they wait for the Ukrainian army to return and fear that the soldiers would arbitrarily label them "Russian collaborators" and even shoot them on the spot for doing so, simply because they continued to work and care for children in children's homes under Russian rule? And what should Russia do when the children's homes suddenly became deserted for this very reason, because the caretakers evacuated and the children stayed behind? Should Russia leave the children, whom it considered Russian citizens after the referendum, to fend for themselves? **The West devalues the International Court of Justice.** With the arrest warrant against the Russian president, which obviously came about as a result of pressure from the West, the West has completely devalued the International Court of Justice in The Hague in one fell swoop, because firstly, the arrest warrant is legally invalid because Russia has not acceded to the relevant statute and the Court therefore has no jurisdiction over Russia at all. Secondly, the reason for the arrest warrant is more than questionable because there is no objective evidence whatsoever that the crime Putin is accused of even took place. But there is something else: The International Criminal Court started its work on July 1, 2002. On March 20, 2003, i.e. after that date, the U.S. started the Iraq war - which is indisputably illegal under international law - in which war crimes were committed on a massive scale, as revealed by Wikileaks, among others, for which Julian Assange is wanted by the U.S. by arrest warrant. No one has been punished for the US war crimes, which means that the US government is covering up for the undisputed war crimes. From this you can see why the arrest warrant against Putin is not based on objective grounds, but is a political action of the West. If it were otherwise, the International Court of Justice should have issued arrest warrants against U.S. President George Bush Junior and quite a few other U.S. officials who covered up U.S. war crimes in Iraq after they were revealed by Wikileaks. However, that did not happen. **The warrant confirms Russia's criticism.** Russia accuses the West of "taking over" international organizations that are supposed to be neutral and objective and instrumentalizing them in the interests of the West. The arrest warrant against the Russian president is further evidence of this. The OSCE was created as a neutral instrument for peace in Europe, but the majority of Western states at the OSCE turned the organization into an instrument of the West years ago. Whether it was elections in Belarus or Russia, the OSCE did not send election observers under flimsy excuses so that the West could accuse the two countries - without evidence - of election fraud. In Russia's case, election observers sent by the Russian opposition were even trained to construct accusations - using the OSCE's logo. The fact that the OSCE chairwoman has also openly said that she supports Alexei Navalny against the legitimate Russian government, which is a member of the OSCE, adds to this. How do you think the German government would react if the OSCE Chairwoman announced that she was supporting, for example, Reichsbürger in an attempt to overthrow the German government? There are further examples of this instrumentalization of international and supposedly neutral organizations by the West **OPCW "Investigations".** In August 2015, the UN Security Council approved a joint UN-OPCW investigative team; it was called the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM). It was to investigate incidents involving chemical warfare agents in Syria, which the West has accused the Syrian government of. However, the JIM did not produce the results the West wanted. And so its mandate expired in November 2017 without being renewed. As a result, the Investigation and Identification Team (IIT) was established in June 2018 with a majority vote of Western states at the OPCW. This was done against the explicit protest of non-Western states, such as Russia. The IIT was also supposed to investigate poison gas incidents in Syria and name culprits. The IIT produced the results the West wanted and held the Syrian government responsible for the April 2018 incident in Duma, for example. However, there were very early doubts about the IIT's findings, as four whistleblowers at the OPCW independently accused the OPCW of writing falsehoods in the report. This is not surprising because the IIT's reports were bought. The IIT was set up against the wishes of many OPCW members, and the reports were funded not by the OPCW, but by the states of the West that established the IIT. The Trust Fund for Syria Missions was used for this purpose, which, among other things, finances the work of the IIT. And the financiers of the Trust are Western states, which is why the Western-funded IIT produced the desired results that the neutral JIM did not. Western-controlled commissions of inquiry always deliver exactly the results the West wants to see. And when, see OPCW, whistleblowers point out that the report is fake, the Western media summarily glosses over it. **The UN Human Rights Council.** The West has even played the same game with the UN Human Rights Council. The UN Human Rights Council has established an "Independent International Commission of Inquiry" to investigate violations of international humanitarian law in Ukraine. The problem with this is that the West has ensured that the commission's only three members are all loyal representatives of Western policy, which is why their report unsurprisingly confirms all the accusations against Russia, almost completely ignores Kiev's war crimes, and the commission did not even visit Russian-controlled areas. **Confirmation of Russia's Accusations.** Developments show that Russia's accusations that the West has "hijacked" international organizations and is abusing them for its political ends are entirely justified. The countries of the world that are outside the sphere of power of the U.S. understand even more with every step the West takes that the West is not to be trusted. As a reminder, only 35 countries have imposed sanctions on Russia, while 158 countries have not. With actions such as the arrest warrant against Putin, the West may be achieving propaganda goals within the Western media bubble, but it is massively smashing china on the international stage, which is unlikely to be to its advantage in trying to get more states on its side. https://www.anti-spiegel.ru/2023/haftbefehl-gegen-putin-die-entwertung-angeblich-objektiver-internationaler-institutionen/