“The ICC was designed to be a court of last resort,” the fact sheet on the executive order reads. “Both the United States and Israel maintain robust judiciary systems and should never be subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC.”
No problem when it sanctions Russia, Afghanistan, or any country not aligned with the west
(ideally the i.c.c. should have the power to protect from covert actions of foreign countries, and their powers/jurisdiction should stop there, without the right to sanction for internal matters, no ? And an international army would be enough to prevent overt military actions)
Ok, so what does this tell us? That liberal institutions are pointless and a hypersonic hitting tel aviv is the only way to make them behave.
So much for the international rules based order then. Now when Russia or China or Iran or anyone else break international law, the USA can only be ridiculed for putting out a condemnation.
The atrocities committed by the USA in South East Asia aren’t in living memory for a lot of people, and happened back when we had less access to information. So I can somewhat understand why a share of the population held a superficial belief that the USA is on the side of international justice. Now the official and publicly stated policy of the USA is to attack and threaten the body responsible for trying Genocidaires. That’s it, the myth that America loves the rule of law should be dead now, right?
