Marco Rubio's New Mission Is to Disable the International Criminal Court
Because nothing says "rules-based international order" like trying to systematically break the global court because they dared to look at you funny.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio just announced a "whole-of-government" campaign to basically brick the International Criminal Court. Yes, the actual ICC in the Hague.
He calls it an "intolerable threat" to US sovereignty. His master plan involves systematically disabling the court's ability to operate by threatening other countries, pulling visas, and banning ICC staff from traveling. It is like trying to cancel a judge's Netflix subscription because you did not like their ruling.
The US never actually joined the court anyway. Democratic administrations have been awkward friends-with-benefits when it suits them, while Republican ones have been openly hostile whenever the court starts asking questions about US actions in Afghanistan or Israel's actions in Gaza.
Now, things have escalated because three ICC judges had the audacity to sue the Trump administration in New York over previous sanctions. So Rubio is going full scorched-earth.
Dismantling a global war crimes court to protect officials from a lawsuit is certainly one way to prove there is absolutely nothing to hide.
Source: State Department
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