Palantir CEO and Trump ally Alex Karp is no stranger to controversial (troll-ish even) comments. His latest one just dropped: Karp believes that the U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean (which many experts believe to be war crimes) are a moneymaking opportunity for his company.
At the New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, Karp was asked about the worries over the unconstitutionality of the boat strikes.
“Part of the reason why I like this questioning is the more constitutional you want to make it, the more precise you want to make it, the more you’re going to need my product."
This is bond-level villainy.
uhh… isn’t it the ICC/ICJ who determines what is a war crime and what is not? How would making them legal in the US affect the ICC/ICJ in ANY way?
We’re not subject to the ICC/ICJ.
Never signed that treaty.
In the US what makes a war crime criminal is the UCMJ and various other us law codes. We get rid of things like “no double tapping” and “you can declare no quarter be given” and suddenly it’s legal.
(There is a very pointed distinction between legal and moral. Explaining that to these fucks is useless.)
We signed on, but the Republican Senate never ratified it.
Ah. I wasn’t aware of that that he USA isn’t subject to them icc/icj. Thanks.
They have a law that “allows” Den Haag if an American is brought in front of the court there.
To make sure it can’t turn against the good guys, of course.
Yup one of those facts that , uh. Well. Speaks for itself.
(The good guys™️ don’t need that, right?)