The Trump regime is preparing sweeping sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) in an attempt to destroy the world’s highest criminal court. The move is Donald Trump’s latest move to defend wanted Israeli war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.

The sanctions would ban a majority of financial transactions with the court, isolating it from the US dollar and — if the global banking system capitulates as expected — from that too. Trump is expected to make a final decision during this week’s UN General Assembly gathering in New York City.

Trump has already abused US financial power to sanction the ICC president, judges and former chief prosecutor Karim Khan, as well as engineering Khan’s removal from his post, despite judges finding no evidence against him in sexual harassment allegations.

The US has previously said it would dismantle the ICC if it did not drop its charges against Netanyahu and other Israelis who have committed crimes against humanity.

  • teagrrl@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    Maybe it has outlived its usefulness as a propaganda tool, maybe Trump is an idiot, or maybe the U.S. is protecting their favorite colonial project, the zionist entity that is apartheid Israel. It is in their interest to protect genocidal zionists. The ICC has historically been weaponized and disproportionately targeted African leaders while ignoring Western crimes. I am sure there are some historical outliers and western sacrificial lambs that you can point to that outlived their usefulness, but that’s why I stress disproportionately. There’s a reason why Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger announced their joint and immediate withdrawal from the Rome Statute last year and they are not the first ones to have similar critiques.