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I think something like The Hague is the moderate position with this administration.

There's a definite reason that the Trump regime has sanctioned ICC personnel, disallowing them access to things like Microsoft software and unbanking them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14203

> a definite reason that the Trump regime has sanctioned ICC personnel

Yeah. Pettiness. The ICC doesn't have jurisdiction in the United States. We aren't a signatory to the Rome Statute. (Most of the world's population doesn't live under its jurisdiction.)

There is no way the former allies of the US are going to normalise relations with them before they fix this though. The fallout for this is going to be a lot larger than I think you suspect.

> no way the former allies of the US are going to normalise relations with them before they fix this though

I think you genuinely hold this take and it's admirable. I'm not seeing any indication (a) our militarised allies are behaving particularly differently or (b) they're concerned about us bombing stuff in the Western Hemisphere. (Versus in their backyards, creating refugee crises.)

> fallout for this is going to be a lot larger than I think you suspect

Maybe. Hopefully. I doubt it. Russia, China, Israel, France and the UK are doing fine.

Name a government in the OECD that’s fundamentally opposed to this intervention

Translation: "Name a Zionist-holocaust-of-babies-supporting-pedophile-rapist-infested-government in the OECD that’s fundamentally opposed to this intervention"

Great moral measuring stick...

Denmark? They already condemned it, and are also repeatedly threatened by the schoolyard bullies

Most European governments have already, in their own (weak) way expressed that this intervention isn't legitimate according to international law.

Which international law? Where's the book of international law?

Seriously? There you go:

https://legal.un.org/avl/studymaterials/handbook/english/boo...

That's just book one, BTW.

And if you violate those laws, what happens?

This administration is just a continuation of the last administration. Same policies on anything important. But it is possible you missed the Gaza Genocide?

Venezuela is in process of leaving ICC and USA is not party to ICC.

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