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Pottsunami@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

No stupid questions, but certainly stupid answers.

The USA is not a part of the international criminal court. So even if the ICC said the US committed war crimes, they have no way to enfore those laws in the USA.

ICC is for states that can’t prosecute within their country. USA can do that. So it goes like this:

ICC: Hey, USA, you committed war crimes USA: We dont recognize your court of law, and we did our own investigation where we found no wrongdoing. ICC: We disagree USA: Okay, that’s nice. We disagree with you.

Stalemate.

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jormaig@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah but if Bush travelled to a country under the ICC jurisdiction he could still be tried. Of course the Hague invasion act (a big fuck you from USA to the ICC) may deter some countries from enforcing the ICC rules on American citizens.

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