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      The approach towards the Netanyahu warrant is no change to US policy and law which explicitly lists Israeli government officials as an “covered allied person” who the US can use “all means necessary” to free from detainment or imprisonment by the ICC. It prohibits “support” of the ICC which includes provision of services.

      So that predated Trump by quite a bit.

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        Personally, I’d like to see them try. Let the entire world see their corruption. Make it clear the USians are not allies of ours, not anymore.

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          Why isn’t the existence of this law enough? It’s been around since 2002. It’s not like the other countries don’t know about it, it came from failed negotiations with the US to join the Rome Treaty. They made their stance clear at that time.

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    So here in 2026, The US and Israel MUST be allowed to rape children and commit war crimes.

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    Why are these people afraid of the International Criminal Court? Are they international criminals? 🤔

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    Sweeping sanctions could prohibit the court from carrying out transactions in dollars, cutting it off from the global financial system and drastically undermining its work

    If only there was some other currency it could use such as the Euro or British Sterling which are also widely used worldwide.

    Any entity-wide sanctions imposed by the U.S. Treasury would prohibit U.S. citizens and companies from providing funds, goods, or services to the court

    I’m not seeing that as a problem as any government or organisation outside of the USA is already looking to reduce or eliminate entirely reliance on US tech,funding, goods and services.

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      “And that’s why today I’ve put a 5000% tariff on the ICC. Nasty people. And they are banned from my press conferences too.”

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        I hope he kicks the UN out of the headquarters in New York and they say “you can’t fire us, we quit”

        Or he threatens to rename the UN unless they give into his demands and they say “that’s funny, go away, grown-ups are talking”

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    And it may be a matter of time we hear about a ‘Trump arrest warrant’ for bombing Iran illegally and speaking flippantly with threats against the ICC.

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    This is fascism. The United States is now a fascist country. If you didn’t vote, or made some third party protest vote, you voted for fascism. Now there’s no going back.

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      We have literal days out till the next voting cycle, please let’s just do everything in our power to ensure everyone is properly registered, especially people in states without grace period registration like Mississippi and Alabama. Thank you for taking the time in understanding that most red states are actually just rigged purple states who make it as hard to vote as possible in order to suppress voter turnout. We can beat fascism, we just have to have more group coordination, less splitting over certain issues, and remember that if we all vote midterms all the time eventually more citizens will start taking every election seriously.

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        I live in a red state, and Id like to share what is done here to make sure there are plenty of R votes.

        They put a lot of polling places in nursing homes. This means Ida and Jim can roll into the elevator and head down to the lobby to vote, while the people with jobs have to wait in line outside. They don’t have to find a ride, there are probably more people in the nursing home than there is waiting in line outside, and guess which news network is on the TV in the lounge/cafeteria all the time?

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          I really hate the red states. I did five years in Idaho, would not recommend. I say it like I went to prison on purpose, living in a Mormon community where their men beat their wives and abused their children.

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    Wow. An international criminal protecting his international criminal blackmailer friend. Who woulda thunk?

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    A lot of the far right really hate Netanyahu, including some MAGA, so it will be interesting to see how this goes with them.