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[–] 103 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Is he afraid he could become the next target of an investigation/warrant of the ICC?

Anyhow the world is changing very quickly and nowadays not doing business with the united states or not using the dollar, is less and less of a problem.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    Anyhow the world is changing very quickly and nowadays not doing business with the united states or not using the dollar, is less and less of a problem.

    While I agree on the surface, these sanctions also include any American companies. You can’t use most email providers, because most are based in the US. You can’t use any debit or credit cards, because MasterCard and Visa are both American companies that will block your access. You can’t use any cloud storage providers, because they’re all American. You can’t have a Google account for your phone. You can’t even use a Microsoft account to log into your Windows PC.

    And sure, lemmings will say that all of those are good things. We’re happy in our little “self-host everything, delete all the cloud accounts, avoid being tracked by any means possible, etc” bubble. But the average person barely even knows how to open a web browser, and panics when their password needs to be reset.

    It basically forces you to live as a Luddite, because the vast majority of the internet, modern banking, etc will (at least tangentially) touch American commerce in some way. And the average person isn’t even close to being well-enough prepared for that kind of upheaval.

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    [–] 68 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Israel and Russia really have him by the balls don't they?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    honestly, he is so dumb they may have just buttered him up a bit

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    The approach towards the Netanyahu warrant is no change to US policy and law which explicitly lists Israeli government officials as an "covered allied person" who the US can use "all means necessary" to free from detainment or imprisonment by the ICC. It prohibits "support" of the ICC which includes provision of services.

    So that predated Trump by quite a bit.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Personally, I'd like to see them try. Let the entire world see their corruption. Make it clear the USians are not allies of ours, not anymore.

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  • Why isn't the existence of this law enough? It's been around since 2002. It's not like the other countries don't know about it, it came from failed negotiations with the US to join the Rome Treaty. They made their stance clear at that time.

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  • [–] 65 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    So here in 2026, The US and Israel MUST be allowed to rape children and commit war crimes.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Criminals sanctioning justice

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  • [–] 23 points 1 week ago*

    Sweeping sanctions could prohibit the court from carrying out transactions in dollars, cutting it off from the global financial system and drastically undermining its work

    If only there was some other currency it could use such as the Euro or British Sterling which are also widely used worldwide.

    Any entity-wide sanctions imposed by the U.S. Treasury would prohibit U.S. citizens and companies from providing funds, goods, or services to the court

    I'm not seeing that as a problem as any government or organisation outside of the USA is already looking to reduce or eliminate entirely reliance on US tech,funding, goods and services.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 week ago

    Why are these people afraid of the International Criminal Court? Are they international criminals? 🤔

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    That warrant was created 2+ years ago. This seems a bit delayed.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    What's ge gonna do? Rename it?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    "And that's why today I've put a 5000% tariff on the ICC. Nasty people. And they are banned from my press conferences too."

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I hope he kicks the UN out of the headquarters in New York and they say "you can't fire us, we quit"

    Or he threatens to rename the UN unless they give into his demands and they say "that's funny, go away, grown-ups are talking"

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    Hello Americans! It's totally normal for innocent people to avoid their day in court. No red flags at all.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago

    And it may be a matter of time we hear about a 'Trump arrest warrant' for bombing Iran illegally and speaking flippantly with threats against the ICC.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Flappity flap, always talks crap.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    Wow. An international criminal protecting his international criminal blackmailer friend. Who woulda thunk?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    Pedophiles protect one another

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    the esptein class flock together.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    Once again proving the US is not a sovereign nation.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago*

    A lot of the far right really hate Netanyahu, including some MAGA, so it will be interesting to see how this goes with them.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    This is fascism. The United States is now a fascist country. If you didn't vote, or made some third party protest vote, you voted for fascism. Now there's no going back.

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    [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    He would have to sanction the countries that support the ICC

    It is the secondary sanctions that have the bite

    That is like the definition of a great depression

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    Can they issue one against Trump as well?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Send trump. I don’t think we would give enough of a shit to invade anymore.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Oh noooo, anyways

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