Posted May 21, 2025
by Martin Armstrong
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The Hungarian Parliament voted to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) in a move that has rattled the European Union. The move comes weeks after Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, who the ICC wants, traveled to Hungary to visit Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
The court of last resort, the idea of a global court came about post-World War II following the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials. The concept gained support once again during the Cold War era amid the slaughter that occurred in Yugoslavia. The Rwanda genocide brought about ad hoc tribunals and led world leaders to seek a global authority to prosecute crimes against humanity, specifically, genocide. The Rome Statute officially established the ICC on July 1, 2002, and received 60 ratifications to officially establish the international court that is located in The Hague, Netherlands. This treaty was negotiated within the United Nations framework, and Article 2 of the Rome Statute requires the ICC to adhere to UN guidelines in the “Negotiated Relationship Agreement.” The UN maintains that the ICC is independent.
Thomas Lubanga Dylio of the Democratic Republic of Congo was the first leader convicted by the ICC for conscripting child soldiers. His 14-year prison sentence ended in 2020. The majority of those who have faced trial are from African nations and have received minimal, if any, international backlash from the West.
Recently, the ICC has been honing in on alleged crimes in Venezuela, Ukraine, Gaza, the Philippines, and elsewhere as its influence expands. Orban has argued that the ICC is “no longer an impartial court, a rule-of-law court, but rather a political court.” Controversy has arrived as of latterly with the ICC hunting down both Putin and Netanyahu.
“Hungary firmly rejects the use of international organisations – in particular criminal courts – as instruments of political influence,” the bill, submitted by Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen, said on parliament’s website. The measure to withdraw from the ICC passed in a 134-37 vote.
Hungary has learned a valuable lesson about surrendering sovereignty to a globalist entity where unelected officials create the rules. The ICC is no longer an impartial neutral entity but has been weaponized as a tool of the UN. The UN has failed to prevent virtually every major war since World War II—from Korea to Vietnam to Iraq to Ukraine. It talks endlessly, issues non-binding resolutions, and does nothing of substance except expand its bureaucracy and budget. The media is declaring Orban a traitor of the West, a puppet of Russia and Israel. The truth of the matter is that world leaders are becoming increasingly suspicious of globalist entities like the World Health Organization, UN, WEF, HRC, etc. because they see the clear goal of centralized control.
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We have the transcripts from day 1 of the Igor Danchenko trial. Pretrial matters and jury selection took up all of yesterday morning; openings and the prosecution’s case-in-chief, led by Special Counsel Durham, started in the afternoon.
Let’s dig in and start with the opening statements.
Special Counsel Prosecutor Michael Keilty opened with explanations of Danchenko’s lies to the FBI and discussed some FBI misconduct:
In fact, he went so far as to accuse the FBI of engaging in “troubling conduct” based on the Steele dossier and, as an extension, Danchenko’s misrepresentations:
How will the government prove part of its case against Danchenko? Keilty lays it out:
Being a false statement case, the Special Counsel must prove that the lies were material. The Special Counsel provides insight into how it will meet that burden:
Danchenko’s Opening
Opening statements also provided insight into Danchenko’s defenses. To summarize, they will argue Danchenko was being truthful and that his purported lies – if they were lies – were immaterial.
In doing so, they provided some new information on FBI malfeasance:
Steven Somma (who was “primarily responsible for some of the most significant errors and omissions in the FISA applications”) told Agent Auten “not to probe or ask a lot of follow-up questions with Mr. Danchenko” in order to get him to cooperate.
They also stated that Danchenko provided “critical intelligence to the Russian government’s efforts to conduct influence operations in the U.S. . . He provided the FBI [] insight into individuals, into areas it was otherwise lacking.” (We suspect this might have to do with Maria Butina.)
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