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1. mentalgear · 1790157724 · focus · HN ↗

   It's really sad seeing the international order, erected primarily by the US as a driving force after WW2, now being torn down by the current US administration to the detriment not only of global safety but also the US itself.

   Giving up the best soft-power levers they had in an attempt to replace them with coarse, obvious and ineffective hard-power beat-sticks is not only foolish but history shows never works well or long term.

   1. celticninja · 1790157975 · focus · HN ↗

      The US never signed up to the ICC, rules for thee and not for me as usual from our Yankee 'friends'

      1. throwaway198846 · 1790159138 · focus · HN ↗

         How is that "rules for thee and not for me" of they didn't sign up and didn't want the ICC to have any jurisdiction for unsigned states (including for other countries)

         Edit: I guess you could point out Biden justifying Putin's warrant as a hypocrisy.

         1. ajnin · 1790197449 · focus · HN ↗

            I don't know what the parent was thinking about, but the examples where the USA intervenes militarily in some country under the guise of justice while refusing any accountability for itself are many. The latest example to date is capturing Maduro because he's supposedly the leader of a drug gang to have him tried in a US court. So the concept of supranational justice and "assault on state sovereignty" is fine when it is in the interest of the USA.

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