It's worth remembering the bush era's invade the hague act, committing the US to a military attack on the ICC if they prosecute any US personnel for the many war crimes we committed in full view of the world.
Sanctioning judges for acting on an allies' war crimes is new, sure. But the US is an old hand at spitting in the face of international law to protect mass murderers from justice.
Recency bias doesn’t help, especially with how fucking nuts headlines are every day, but holy shit it’s wild how many people have forgotten how wretched the bush administration was
A lot of people do seem to think "bush looks good in comparison to trump", ignoring the fact that the open corruption and rejection of reality under bush was an earlier iteration of our current fascist coup, an important stage in that same process.
Obama openly refusing to enforce the law against those bush era criminals ("I'm looking forward not backward") was another important step towards fascism.
Obama and Biden not rolling back Bush era things like the Invade the Hague act (Servicemans Protection Act) also.
It's no accident that the US already has a huge amount of the infrastructure required for it to start to fascist out the way it has under Trump.
Obama openly refusing to enforce the law against those bush era criminals ("I'm looking forward not backward") was another important step towards fascism.
This x1000. I used to be proud of South Korea's rich history of prosecuting their former Presidents, but recently they stopped doing this too. Shameful. We must bring back punishments for those who abuse power.
We talking George W or just George? I seem to remember the former got into office by a hair's breadth, with the help of some seriously dangerous nazis in Florida (2000). A blueprint for Jan6 and everything that went on during that election.
It's not that we've forgotten, it's that it's so much worse now that those were the "good ol' days"
It's definitely both.
Thanks for the reminder. I had read about this, but the continuous US25 shitshow made me forget.
Not US judges though. Probably too chickenshit to do that.
WASHINGTON/THE HAGUE (...) Trump's administration (...) imposed sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court, an unprecedented retaliation over the war tribunal's issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a past decision to open a case into alleged war crimes by U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Washington designated Solomy Balungi Bossa of Uganda, Luz del Carmen Ibanez Carranza of Peru, Reine Adelaide Sophie Alapini Gansou of Benin and Beti Hohler of Slovenia..
What the actual petty fuck.
What are they trying to achieve this time, choosing judges from those four countries?
It's called imperialist agenda.
Anybody else feel like this might be Russia again?
Sanctions severely hamper individuals' abilities to carry out even routine financial transactions as any banks with ties to the United States, or that conduct transactions in dollars, are expected to have to comply with the restrictions.
Making this move could seem to be a blow against the US banking system, once again undermining our influence in the world.
No, this is Israel this time. These individuals were involved in the arrest warrant of Netanyahu.
Just wait until you see what sanctions the ICC will eventually impose on the Trump regime.
The ICC should just get cooler and become the ICCC which would be a totally different entity with no continuation of sanctions from one legal entity to the next.
The judges were personally sanctioned I believe.
Or the iouioui
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