The International Criminal Court is a farce. How can you tell other sovereign nation what is a "crime" or what "is not a crime"? It has literally zero authority to decide such matters.
The sanctions announcement coincided with a former ICC judge, Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her contributions to enlarging the scope and impact of international law. -- https://thehill.com/policy/international/6138693-rubio-impos...
Perhaps triggered by Navi Pillay's nobel prize [1]. She served on ICC and chaired the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory from 2021 to 2025.
Why stop there? Let's do all other collaborative groups that doesn't put the US and their corrupted agenda first. You wanna be left alone and we don't want to have you so just make the calls.
Some context per the below articles, and as a general IR nerd.
The proximal cause of the sanctions appears to be that the Nobel Peace Prize was won by a former ICC judge, and Trump covets it.
The distal cause is that the US never joined the ICC, arguing that US political & military leaders should not be subject to a binding foreign jurisdiction. This is a longstanding disagreement, with bipartisan consensus in DC.
Putting pressure on this, the ICC has a warrants out for Netanyahu and others that the current administration views as a political & military ally.
The sanctions announcement coincided with a former ICC judge, Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her contributions to enlarging the scope and impact of international law. -- https://thehill.com/policy/international/6138693-rubio-impos...
The last round of ICC sanctions got everyone here talking about tech sovereignty, now France and Germany are rolling their own productivity suites, the Netherlands are rolling their own NixOS distro, etc etc.
This is just going to further hurt US interests. Biting the hand that feeds, burning down their own empire out of hubris. And Americans voted for this! Twice!
It's time the EU rolls out the Blocking Statute [0] to counteract this nonsense.
As an outside observer, the US administration is an embarrassment to the country. You're never going to come back from this. Well done.
The International Criminal Court is a farce. How can you tell other sovereign nation what is a "crime" or what "is not a crime"? It has literally zero authority to decide such matters.
The sanctions announcement coincided with a former ICC judge, Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her contributions to enlarging the scope and impact of international law. -- https://thehill.com/policy/international/6138693-rubio-impos...
Perhaps triggered by Navi Pillay's nobel prize [1]. She served on ICC and chaired the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory from 2021 to 2025.
[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2026/pillay/facts/
> America never joined the court. We don’t need it. And we don’t want it.
Wow, so tough, much decision
Meanwhile, the EU is working on further entrenching payment and identity into American service providers (mainly: Apple and Google).
Do these sanctions also affect anyone working at the ICC?
Why stop there? Let's do all other collaborative groups that doesn't put the US and their corrupted agenda first. You wanna be left alone and we don't want to have you so just make the calls.
The article is (probably purposefully) unclear of what actually is happening here... what sanctions are being applied, to whom, and to what effect?
Some context per the below articles, and as a general IR nerd.
The proximal cause of the sanctions appears to be that the Nobel Peace Prize was won by a former ICC judge, and Trump covets it.
The distal cause is that the US never joined the ICC, arguing that US political & military leaders should not be subject to a binding foreign jurisdiction. This is a longstanding disagreement, with bipartisan consensus in DC.
Putting pressure on this, the ICC has a warrants out for Netanyahu and others that the current administration views as a political & military ally.
https://apnews.com/article/us-icc-trump-rubio-4ea3555403e3c6... https://www.reuters.com/world/us-imposes-sanctions-internati...
If you choose not to join a club, you don’t need to try to “cripple its ability to operate”.
That's the kind of thing only a rogue state would do.
I don't understand why this is such an urgent topic. Is ICC currently prosecuting an US citizen?
The sanctions announcement coincided with a former ICC judge, Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her contributions to enlarging the scope and impact of international law. -- https://thehill.com/policy/international/6138693-rubio-impos...
Even worse!!
https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/netanyahu
An Israeli citizen probably.
It's hard to tell which executive orders are meant as a joke and which are meant as sincere (but horrible) policy perspectives.
I suspect this one was actually meant as a joke, although it is not remotely funny in my opinion.
Someone in Trump's orbit who writes them gets an immature charge out of trolling people.
So far my prediction about Trump have sadly been correct: The US is getting weaker and poorer every day.
> ...gets an immature charge out of trolling people.
That describes MAGA perfectly.
Yikes.
Another match lighting US soft power on fire
The last round of ICC sanctions got everyone here talking about tech sovereignty, now France and Germany are rolling their own productivity suites, the Netherlands are rolling their own NixOS distro, etc etc.
This is just going to further hurt US interests. Biting the hand that feeds, burning down their own empire out of hubris. And Americans voted for this! Twice!
It's time the EU rolls out the Blocking Statute [0] to counteract this nonsense.
[0] https://finance.ec.europa.eu/eu-and-world/open-strategic-aut...
I have read here on this here HN, that "soft power" does not in fact exist, and therefore cannot be lost!
So, good news I guess. Everything is fine. Trump is the best president ever in the history of the world.
Will Trump be able to change the law so that he becomes a lifetime dictator of USA?
He does not seem to care much for laws in general. Why change them when you can just ignore them? Much less work.
Putin would hope so because there's no other way.
At the end of the day, the law is what people agree it is… And people don’t seem to be too interested in keeping the lunatic in check.