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US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

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guidoiaquinti · 1790685221 · focus · HN ↗
Several International Criminal Court (ICC) judges have been unable to access their bank accounts or receive routine salary payments and financial transfers due to financial blockages triggered by United States sanctions. In the country where they live
1. RunSet · 1790688962 · focus · HN ↗
  Killing the survivors of a shipwreck[0] is a textbook example of a war crime[1] and would explain why the liar-in-chief is so sweaty about the ICC.
  [0] <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/28/hegseth-kill-them-all-survivors-boat-strike/" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/28/...
  [1] <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/cnns-elie-honig-points-out-alleged-us-strike-on-defenseless-survivors-is-literally-a-textbook-example-of-a-war-crime/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/cnns-elie-honig-points-out...
  1. ericmay · 1790692952 · focus · HN ↗
    Trump isn't sweaty about the ICC. There is next to 0% likelihood that an American president would be sent to the ICC to be tried or something. Anyone who thinks that might happen or thinks the ICC might have the power to compel such a scenario is quite delusional or just misunderstands how the world actually works.
    andyjohnson0 · 1790694046 · focus · HN ↗
    Trump has a lot of domestic enemies, and not just in politics. Unless he goes all-in and refuses to leave office, it must concern him that some future US president might decide to Milošević him to the ICC - either as score-settling or to simply get him out of the way.
    Personally I'd love to see Trump on trial at the ICC. Along with Putin and Netanyahu. And Blair (the former prime minister of my country) and George Bush.
    SpicyLemonZest · 1790694718 · focus · HN ↗
    I'm one of Trump's domestic enemies, I think we should imprison him and his minions the instant he's thrown out of the White House, and I'm still not sure it's realistic to send him to the ICC. It would radicalize a lot of people who have wrong but principled objections to it.

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