cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54713532
President Donald Trump’s administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20251210120244/https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-threatens-new-icc-sanctions-unless-court-pledges-not-prosecute-trump-2025-12-10/
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That’s exactly why the world needs a strong and capable ICC.
And this is why we not only need to reduce our dependence on China in the long run but also our dependence on the US.
There’s just no way a sovereign state live while depending on US monopolies.