The Trump regime is preparing sweeping sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) in an attempt to destroy the world’s highest criminal court. The move is Donald Trump’s latest move to defend wanted Israeli war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.
The sanctions would ban a majority of financial transactions with the court, isolating it from the US dollar and — if the global banking system capitulates as expected — from that too. Trump is expected to make a final decision during this week’s UN General Assembly gathering in New York City.
Trump has already abused US financial power to sanction the ICC president, judges and former chief prosecutor Karim Khan, as well as engineering Khan’s removal from his post, despite judges finding no evidence against him in sexual harassment allegations.
The US has previously said it would dismantle the ICC if it did not drop its charges against Netanyahu and other Israelis who have committed crimes against humanity.
This take doesn’t make much sense in light of the facts. Why issue a warrant against Netanyahu instead of capitulating to the Zionist narrative? Why create a legal quagmire in member states? Also, while it doesn’t have “direct jurisdiction” over non-members, i.e., the member states themselves aren’t bound to enforce its decisions, the member states do have obligations against members of non-member state who are indicted. That’s the whole thing. Palestine is a signatory, so they can issue a warrant against Netanyahu for his crimes there. The move to dismantle a court obviously drags down the legitimacy of a state, as well, so why would they fight so hard against a purely symbolic decision.
It’s about maintaining appearances and the thin veneer of legitimacy for those gullible enough to fall for it. Same reason why the U.S. sent aid to Palestinians while helping Israel bomb them.
As far as Trump’s motivations, he is a dementia patient motivated by greed and narcissism. Most of the things he does makes no sense at all. He has beef with the ICC, now they are his enemy. It’s not that deep. There’s a reason people call him Comrade Trump, because he is actively destroying the US empire and I honestly welcome it.
If it were a tool they were using, they wouldn’t be destroying it. Full stop. That’s just not how they operate.
Also the ICC is not even issuing warrants against anyone from the U.S., it’s doing it against Zionist leadership. So how does greed and narcissism motivate Trump to do that, when it’s against his own interests? Where did the “beef with the ICC” even come from? It points clearly to his decisions being motivated by someone else’s interests who’s compelling him. Not independent agency.
Maybe it has outlived its usefulness as a propaganda tool, maybe Trump is an idiot, or maybe the U.S. is protecting their favorite colonial project, the zionist entity that is apartheid Israel. It is in their interest to protect genocidal zionists. The ICC has historically been weaponized and disproportionately targeted African leaders while ignoring Western crimes. I am sure there are some historical outliers and western sacrificial lambs that you can point to that outlived their usefulness, but that’s why I stress disproportionately. There’s a reason why Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger announced their joint and immediate withdrawal from the Rome Statute last year and they are not the first ones to have similar critiques.
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