Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court

Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by nextaccountic on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:08PM (#50022582)

It's not just this administration. The US helped create this court and pushed other countries to join, but never joined themselves and always threatened the court if they indicted or judged American people.

There's an US law that says the US will invade Belgium if the court wanted to investigate an American (???)

I remember Hillary Clinton, in the Obama administration, saying the US is an exceptional country that deserves exceptional conditions regarding this issue

It's frankly ridiculous

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Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by matheusmoreira on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:27PM (#50022891)

I don't get it... Why would any other country handicap themselves by joining such an obviously corrupt court that judges them but not the US?

Pretty wild that the US has a law that literally says it must invade another country if they judge Americans for war crimes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...

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Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by nextaccountic on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:13PM (#50024537)

> Why would any other country handicap themselves by joining such an obviously corrupt court that judges them but not the US?

It's not a corrupt court. It has judged crimes against humanity cases before, and a lot of countries give credence to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_indicted_in_the... the people in this list all deserve to be there, I can't see a single exception

My own country (Brazil) supported South Africa charges of genocide against Israel because we believe in this court and the role it fulfills.

For me, the sole problem with this court is that it's reluctant to judge American war crimes and crimes against humanity. But as Europe leaves the US sphere of influence, maybe they will grow a spine. It would be unfortunate if people like George W Bush, Dick Cheney, John Choon Yoo and Jay Scott Bybee died before they were indicted by this court.

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Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by autoexec on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:02PM (#50027136)

> It's not a corrupt court. It has judged crimes against humanity cases before, and a lot of countries give credence to it.

If your justice system, as a matter of policy, refused to ever arrest any while brazilians would you say it was still corrupt even if every black/brown brazilian they convicted was truly guilty and fairly sentenced? It's corrupt. If their hands truly are completely tied because of credible threats against them by the US then the US is the source of their corruption, but it's still corrupt.

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Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by phs318u on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:33PM (#50027410)

I’m sorry, is this a hypothetical straw man? If yes, what makes you think that’s how it works? If no, please provide some evidence of said behaviour.

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Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by autoexec on Friday October 09, 2026 @07:13PM (#50027759)

From the US side there's been a long history of refusing to accept that the court has any jurisdiction over the US and some fairly threatening language including:

"We will respond against the ICC and its personnel to the extent permitted by U.S. law. We will ban its judges and prosecutors from entering the United States. We will sanction their funds in the U.S. financial system, and we will prosecute them in the U.S. criminal system. We will do the same for any company or state that assists an ICC investigation of Americans." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45474864

As for the ICC turning a blind eye to the crimes of the US, its track record speaks for itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_committed_by_the_Un...

Giving one party a free pass to commit crimes while convicting other parties is corrupt, even if all the people who did get convicted deserved it.

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Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by viceconsole on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:46PM (#50023190)

Netherlands, not Belgium. Though with the quality of US targeting, it's possible they might accidentally invade Belgium instead.

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