I'm going to give an unpopular view here because I think we need to look at actual facts and laws instead of emotions.<p>Buried right at the bottom of the article: "the US is not a party to the international tribunal".<p>Now, you can say they should be. But they're not. So if you look at it from a purely impartial and dispassionate standpoint, the court shouldn't get any special treatment - and the US would be entitled to take such actions against any other foreign group that set itself up and issued threats. It's like me setting up my own private court and then coming to arrest you.<p>The fact that most other countries are part of it may make a <i>moral</i> case for the US to join but not a <i>legal</i> one, which means that, again looking dispassionately, the US is entitled to do this.
Isn't there also a law on the books in the US that permits 'exfiltration' of a captured US citizen from The Hague if it were ever to come to that?
Nothing particularly surprising here. US - probably the only country in recent history where you get decorated after downing a civilian airliner killing everyone aboard - protects its war criminals, it makes them more effective.
On historical sanctions: If france had not been able to bust the british blockade[1], the US would not have become independent[2] in 1783.<p>[1] As a naval power, the british were also fond of economic sanctions.<p>[2] which would not necessarily have been a bad thing: a british North America would have ended slavery sooner with much less bloodshed.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZzDP-vQXao&t=3195" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZzDP-vQXao&t=3195</a>
Disgusting. This administration is shattering any form of international cooperation not based on power and submission. This brings humanity back to a pre WWs mentality.
It's pretty normal that any organization trying to unlawfully assert its jurisdiction over another country will be met with a response. ICC has been trying to do the same thing to Israel which it also has no jurisdiction over.
If they also investigate china Great Leap Forward, ... up to rent Hong Kong or they try Russia ... just get everyone then I am all ears. For now, destroy USA credibility meant more than just touch the last remaining power sort of helping humanity.
The court is ridiculous. It has had 2 convictions in 13 years and has cost over a billion dollars.<p>Have the UN set up a trial commission whenever there is need to prosecute someone internationally.<p>No need to have it wander around on geopolitically volatile fishing expeditions when they have nothing to do.