The US state department has launched a plan to “disable” and “dismantle” the International Criminal Court (ICC), which includes pressuring other countries to join in and threatening to cut US assistance for those that don’t.

The US state department has launched a plan to “disable” and “dismantle” the International Criminal Court (ICC), which includes pressuring other countries to join in and threatening to cut US assistance for those that don’t.

  • DupaCycki@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 days ago

    It’s very much true that the ICC mostly targets countries in Africa and Asia. However, are you sure it’s a problem with the court itself? It has little power in countries that aren’t members or ones that actively sabotage it.

    More powerful countries stall investigations, postpone penalties (or just ignore them), and overall make the ICC’s job near impossible. The ICC has no real authority or executive power to do anything about it. The best they can do is investigate crimes in countries too weak to undermine it.

    Perhaps it’s racism or colonialism, and the court needs to be disbanded. Or perhaps it’s merely fulfilling its obligations wherever it is actually able to, and would work a lot better if the powerful countries were gone or lost their influence.

    • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      Unless they start writing arrest warrants for American and European leaders for their complicity in the Gaza genocide they are still nothing more than a farce.

      Especially American leaders. Kidnapping Maduro, blockading Cuba, there is soooo much.

      • DupaCycki@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        The moment the ICC puts out an arrest warrant for any American official, they’ll have all their IT systems disabled, probably some members arrested, and so on.

        The US government already ordered Microsoft to disable all accounts of some ICC officials, just for Netanyahu’s arrest warrant.

        Perhaps it’s better if they just continue persecuting criminals from Asia and Africa, instead of collapsing entirely. This way is far from fair or just, but at least some criminals get punished.

        As long as USA, Russia, and Israel exist, this is the best we can hope for, unfortunately.