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Trump prepares sweeping sanctions in attempt to destroy ICC (www.thecanary.co)
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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.

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[–] 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Neither Israel nor the United States is a party to the Rome Statute, meaning the ICC holds no direct jurisdiction over them.

most of the countries in europe are party to the rome statute, so they are under its jurisdiction, but the way they've bent over backwards to find loopholes that guarantee that netanyahu won't be arrested prove that the icc's existence is meaningless.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

    Idk, it must mean something if the empire is throwing such a fit over even a symbolic gesture from them...

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago

    it's the narrative they don't like, not the institution, and they're okay with unsupportive narratives so long as they're relegated to the fringes of the western world -- the us empire depends on propaganda narratives to inflict misery in the name of short term profits and cobert prove how they'll react if any of unsupportive narrative becomes mainstream.

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