• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      That’s one quick way to destroy America’s position in the global system. But Trump would order it. We all know he would.

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      6 months ago

      That’s um a bad look even by America in 2002 standards jeez

      Ok Europe why the fuck haven’t you prepared for conflict with us‽

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      This is just how the world works tbh. The ICC has no mechanisms for enforcement. They rely on participating countries, because they don’t have an international mandate to do well, anything, without the approval of the international community. There is no world government, or world police

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          Yeah sorta. But there’s no way to force the US to participate, there’s zero international law that has enforcement mechanisms. In order to pursue an ICC trial, they rely on the armies/police/prosecutors/judges of other nations, and none of those nations are going to risk fucking up their relationship with the US. In this case, the US is literally not beholden to the laws

          That’s kind of the point of being a (near) hegemon