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Netherlands bracing for potentially devastating US sanctions against the ICC

143 points · 131 comments · vrganj

47282847 · 1790157559 · focus · HN ↗
Which country besides the US has the audacity to think it has extraterritorial rights to interfere with legal practices elsewhere? To me, it is obvious that this is violent behavior and will lead to defensive action by others, and more violence, not more peace.
If it was the “hard power” it claims, what is it that makes “it” so afraid? To me, it is fairly obvious that this is how a threatened being behaves, in “childish ways”, before it fully falls apart.
1. mrkeen · 1790157987 · focus · HN ↗
  You may not have intended it this way, but your top paragraph could easily be repurposed as a talking point for the current administration. What does the I in ICC stand for?
  1. ctolsen · 1790159153 · focus · HN ↗
    If that's a talking point it's a stupid one. The Rome Statutes are only valid in territories that have agreed to be bound by them.
    throwaway198846 · 1790159885 · focus · HN ↗
    It isn't bound, Hamas didn't agree to be bound by ICC.
    ctolsen · 1790179901 · focus · HN ↗
    And the local drug dealer says he's a sovcit but is still somehow in jail. What's your point?
    throwaway198846 · 1790186215 · focus · HN ↗
    But the equivalent don't hold there is no one enforcing ICC warrants in Gaza and Yahya Sinwar wasn't in jail.

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