The Trump administration has imposed sweeping new sanctions on the International Criminal Court as part of its campaign to dismantle the tribunal that the U.S. believes has become politicized and attempted to unfairly and illegally prosecute Americans and Israelis on war crimes charges.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the sanctions Friday, after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to South African prosecutor Navi Pillay, a former judge at the ICC and other international courts. Trump has coveted that prize for himself. The move, however, long predated the Nobel Prize announcement.
“We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate against us,” Rubio said in a video address posted to social media. “The United States and the American people are not subject to the jurisdiction of this fake ICC.”
Hopefully this bullshit tactic moves us closer to a post american internet and corporate action to reduce reliance on US tech
US tech has been thinly disguised spware for a long time, no we can upgrade that to ransomware.
Yeah, I’m watching this as an American and it just seems profoundly stupid. Really? The court? The one that tries war crimes? That they weren’t listening to anyway?
What a great opportunity to remind anyone that no matter how good the service, you shouldn’t trust it because it’s American. This doesn’t exactly sell America’s war adventurism either. I’m hopeful that the US acting out against this court it never listened to will wake some people up.