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the west's rules based international order is dead , and they killed it themselves
The Western imperialist rules-based order is the same as it ever was: they make up the rules and order everyone else around.
turns out the "international" law only applies to the global south and that the "international community" is just the NATO and friends.
Rules based international suggestions
"Rules-based international order" folks.
Coming from reddit, it's interesting to see a world news forum that isn't entirely and totally captured by Israeli Hasbara mods. I got banned from reddit's /worldnews for pointing out that "invade Iran" vs "let Iran have nukes" is an asinine false dichotomy. (And I didn't even use the word "asinine.")
I think Iran should have nukes
Ideally no country should have nukes.
However, Iran having nukes may be preferable to Iran having its country 'annihilated' by an empire that already has nukes, and is the only country to have ever used them.
In the world where countries do have nukes, I think Iran should have nukes. In a world without nukes I think they should also not have them.
I hate to say I told you so, but I earlier this week I said the ICC a neocolonial imperialist institution employs selective justice. Turns out the .today and .worlders were wrong again.
Remember when France did this on Obama's orders in 2013? Bolivia Presidential plane forced to land after false rumors of Snowden onboard.
The rules bent order
where Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he does not have the authority to arrest the Israeli leader.
As expected, he knew this very well
Contrary to France, Italy and Greece who signed the ICC; they have the authority but not the balls nor the spine. Their leaders are fucking losers
But what about the rules based international order?
We break the rules, you follow the orders, Citizen!
I think any country that allows things like this should get ignored by the ICC for any criminals that they want to have arrested. France looking for a criminal that stole stuff from the Louvre or something? Nah, ask someone else.
France (and the rest of capitalist core) is already ignored by ICC. Reading many comments in this thread i see that people seems to have many misconceptions concerning purpose and scale of ICC. In fact, it is not chasing burglars, but it is the colonial court for Africa and the scale of its activities are kinda pathetic since the number of indicted are not many and many of them were not even arrested and judged.
ICC only had its five minutes when it accused Putin (enthusiastically supported by all the countries that now ignore its accusation against Netanyahu) and now Netanyahu.
This is the West, the one that is supposedly peaceful, democratic, and wants to build a rule-based world order. Yep, checks out.
Because US have in law that they can use military force, if them or their allies are put before the ICC.
I wish they’d call the bluff, the US military is already overstretched.
Typical western double standards. Apparently, AIPAC has control over these countries' politicians
I know I've been posting this a lot but not only is the US not a member of the ICC, but the president is permitted to "all means necessary and appropriate" to free any covered US person or covered allied person if they are arrested. Israel is one of the countries explicitly listed as covered, and the definition of covered includes government officials.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act
~~France has said they consider heads of states that are not signatories to the treaty to have diplomatic immunity, despite the ICC having jurisdiction over Palestine (who is a signatory).~~
~~I haven't heard excuses from the other countries 🕵️♀️~~
I was tricked by an ad into thinking I was done the article 🤦♀️. Lots of great info, answering questions I didn't know I had!
The only takeaway is that when Israel said the ICC is only for African and Arab leaders and not for Western countries and colonies, they were completely right.
The ICC and ICJ are useless Western colonialist institutions which should be dismantled ASAP. Trump is doing the rest of the world a favor by destroying the farce.
I highlight this law not to make comment on the value of the ICC, but to point out that the current admin is just joining 24 years of opposition to it.
Yes I'm sure the blue team would do something about all those war crimes, just like they did when they were in office.
The icj never declared a single genocide as a genocide until the genocide end.
To young for the Milosevic trial?
They try hard to erase it from the web but if you can find it it's a glorious piece of theatre.
The pompous Brit judge in his silly costume and wig trying his best to pretend it's not a kangaroo court.
Yet having to intervene and stop Milosevic (doing his own defense) every 5 minutes when he cornered a 'witness' and exposed their lies. "we will continue behind closed doors for this part" LOL
You should watch it, better than any Hollywood court drama.