• IWantToFuckSpez
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    6 months ago

    The US already has a law in place that stipulates that the president can use all means necessary, including military action, to release any US personnel that have been arrested by the ICC.

    They aren’t afraid that the ICC is going to issue a warrant for a US president. Because they can just park their aircraft carriers in the North Sea near The Hague beach and invade Dutch airspace. And what is the EU going to do in that case? US already has troops and equipment on EU soil.

    • @[email protected]
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      326 months ago

      While they can do so, that’s a very effective way to permanently destroy relations between the EU and the US. The US will be unable to effectively project power onto both Europe and the Middle East once the military bases in Europe are closed down in the aftermath. It will be the US’s biggest loss in soft power since its founding.

    • @[email protected]
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      196 months ago

      ICC arrest warrants are not about actually detaining people, Bibi won’t end up in the Hague either.

      The point is isolation. If the US president would get convicted, they wouldn’t be able to attend a G7 summit anymore for example.

      • @djsoren19
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        26 months ago

        They certainly could try, but who do you think actually enforces NATO?