• FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The US is not a signatory to the ICC, is it?

    In fact, I believe the planned response to such an arrest is to actually storm the Hague and retrieve the American.

    Point is, I don’t think the US government is too worried about it.

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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      6 months ago

      neither is israel… the ICC decided that it has jurisdiction if a crime was committed in a country(area? because palestine is a signatory but not a country) that is a signatory

      so it’s charged israelis because palestine is a signatory

      afghanistan is also a signatory, so AFAIK the ICC believes it has jurisdiction to charge US citizens for any war crimes that may have occurred during… that… whole… thing

      the US disagrees of course, but IDK it kinda makes sense. if you assasinate someone in, say, the UK and then flee to… like… Russia for example <_< then the UK isn’t just going to say well i guess they’re Russian so we don’t have jurisdiction

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      6 months ago

      They are worried about their holidays in the countries who apply ICC juridiction (a lot of good holidays places…). Can you imagine ? The audacity of ruining my holidays because i did (or supported by providing weapons, veto, etc) a little genocide ! Poor me, bad ICC.