Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court

rbanffy

That's the kind of thing only a rogue state would do.

HackerThemAll

Will Trump be able to change the law so that he becomes a lifetime dictator of USA?

noitpmeder

The article is (probably purposefully) unclear of what actually is happening here... what sanctions are being applied, to whom, and to what effect?

bflesch

I don't understand why this is such an urgent topic. Is ICC currently prosecuting an US citizen?

resters

It's hard to tell which executive orders are meant as a joke and which are meant as sincere (but horrible) policy perspectives. I suspect this one was actually meant as a joke, although it is not remotely funny in my opinion. Someone in Trump's orbit who writes them gets an immature charge out of trolling people. So far my prediction about Trump have sadly been correct: The US is getting weaker and poorer every day.

vrganj

Yikes. Another match lighting US soft power on fire The last round of ICC sanctions got everyone here talking about tech sovereignty, now France and Germany are rolling their own productivity suites, the Netherlands are rolling their own NixOS distro, etc etc. This is just going to further hurt US interests. Biting the hand that feeds, burning down their own empire out of hubris. And Americans voted for this! Twice! It's time the EU rolls out the Blocking Statute [0] to counteract this nonsense. [0] https://finance.ec.europa.eu/eu-and-world/open-strategic-aut...

yzydserd

If you choose not to join a club, you don’t need to try to “cripple its ability to operate”.

sdcfgy

As an outside observer, the US administration is an embarrassment to the country. You're never going to come back from this. Well done.

medina

The sanctions announcement coincided with a former ICC judge, Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her contributions to enlarging the scope and impact of international law. -- https://thehill.com/policy/international/6138693-rubio-impos...

pluc

Why stop there? Let's do all other collaborative groups that don't put the US and their corrupted agenda first. You wanna be left alone and we don't want to have you so just make the calls.

curiousllama

Some context per the below articles, and as a general IR nerd. The proximal cause of the sanctions appears to be that the Nobel Peace Prize was won by a former ICC judge, and Trump covets it. The distal cause is that the US never joined the ICC, arguing that US political & military leaders should not be subject to a binding foreign jurisdiction. This is a longstanding disagreement, with bipartisan consensus in DC. Putting pressure on this disagreement, the ICC has a warrants out for Netanyahu and others that the current administration views as a political & military ally. My interpretation is basically: this is a petty move about the Nobel, which builds on a long-simmering disagreement about the role of international law. https://apnews.com/article/us-icc-trump-rubio-4ea3555403e3c6... https://www.reuters.com/world/us-imposes-sanctions-internati...

WhyNotHugo

Meanwhile, the EU is working on further entrenching payment and identity into American service providers (mainly: Apple and Google). Do these sanctions also affect anyone working at the ICC?

pu_pe

So just when the whole Greenland debacle seemed to be settled, it's time to create another rift with the EU.

1a527dd5

I believe the term is 'superpower suicide'. Amazing to see it in real-time.

hypfer

I was getting rather tired of SV opinions shaping all of our daily lives far outside the SV, but I did not expect that this would be how that would slowly end. Not a week passes without the US giving other nations very good reasons to cut out any dependencies on anything under their jurisdiction. Is California now panicking and exiting the United states? That would be really funny.

mendym

Does this mean that Microsoft or Google can no longer offer services (like mail/office/search etc..) to the ICC? Similar to what happened with the ICC prosecutor last year?

SillyUsername

I'm confused, if you're not a criminal, what have you got to hide? See the similarity here...?

dogmayor

Did a child write this? So embarrassing to be an American.

franczesko

All of this, because one war criminal can't come to Europe anymore

ChrisArchitect

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50021066